Title: Atlas
Author: Becca C Smith
Series: The Atlas Series Book #1
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Publisher: Red Frog Publishing
Release Date: Nov 2013
Edition/Formats Available In: eBook & Print
Blurb/Synopsis:
Kala Hicks never imagined she’d be fighting demons, angels
and gods when she joined the Navy. But when her elite covert military team is
on a mission aboard Air Force One and Kala is forced to shoot the President her
life changes forever.
The moment the President is killed the Titan god, Atlas, speaks
to Kala, telling her that she has to do his job by committing one act of
atrocity every four days… or the world will end. Kala faces off against
creatures of legend; from demons determined to make her fail and plunge the
Earth into chaos, to angels who don’t trust her to do the job and are willing
to kill her to claim it for themselves.
Pitted against the forces of good and evil, Kala must choose
whether to save the world by doing the unthinkable, or sit back and let it
burn.
Four days later, she’ll have to do it again.
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Author Information
Becca C. Smith received her Film degree from Full Sail
University and has worked in the Film and Television industry for most of her
adult life. In 2010 Becca published her first novel, Riser followed by the
sequel, Reaper, in 2011, and the finale, Ripper in 2013. In 2012 Becca wrote
the children’s novel Alexis Tappendorf and the Search for Beale’s Treasure. She
is also the co-author of the teen graphic novel Ghost Whisperer: The Haunted.
Becca currently lives in Los Angeles, CA with her husband, Stephan and their
two cats Jack and Duke.
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Excerpt
End of Chapter 3:
Very carefully, Jack opened the door that led to the
President’s office.
What awaited them was terrifying.
President Jareth Wilton stood behind his desk. He was
wearing a vest that held five grey bars of C-4 wired into a bomb. Wilton was a
tall man, well over six feet with stark black hair and a long face. He was a
young President, only fifty years old, but he looked like he’d aged twenty
years since the last time Kala had seen him at a press conference, with dark
rings under his eyes and worry lines on his forehead.
But his smile was what made the scene surreal and horrific.
His thin lips were grinning as if he’d just climbed Mt. Everest.
President Wilton stared directly at Jack as the door swung
open the rest of the way. “I figured it out! I figured out how to break it! No
one will ever have to do what I’ve had to do again! Do you realize what this
means?”
Kala knew then and there that the man was cracked. Figured
what out? Break what? He was rambling like a mad man.
But the more frightening moment came when Jack responded
back to Wilton. “Killing yourself is impossible. People have tried that in the
past.”
Not only was President Wilton talking crazy, but apparently
Jack knew his language and was responding accordingly.
Kala noticed that Wilton’s eyes lit up when Jack spoke.
“You’re the one they sent to replace me.”
Jack nodded.
What? Kala was seriously confused.
Kala spoke up, “What’s going on Jack?”
Replace him for what?
Jack didn’t acknowledge Kala or the rest of the team, which
was shifting uncomfortably behind him.
Wilton shook his head, serious. “You can’t do it. You have
to let me detonate this bomb. We have to crash the plane! It’s the only way to
stop it!”
“You can’t stop it!” Jack yelled back.
“I can and I will!” Wilton talked into an earpiece. “NOW!”
The plane nose-dived.
Everyone jolted forward and stumbled from the force of it.
Jack barked orders, “Lali get up to the Flight Deck and by
any means necessary take over this plane!”
Lali paused for a second, she looked more confused than Kala
felt, but after a moment to gain her bearings as the plane was falling fast,
she managed to high-tail it out of the room and up to the Flight Deck.
Kala was sure they’d hit ground at any moment.
Jack aimed his gun at the President’s head.
Wilton was frantic. He ducked behind his large oak desk that
was bolted to the ground.
“You can’t kill me! You’ll ruin everything!” Wilton yelled.
Jack turned to Kala and Derek. “No one shoots him but me!”
Kala kind of nodded, but she was in shock at the fact that
they were about to flatten a part of the capital with Air Force One. She really
didn’t care what Jack was saying. She couldn’t let President Wilton set off
that bomb and kill thousands.
Jack shot at the desk, trying to hit the president, but he
didn’t come close.
Only Kala could make a shot like that and not get them all
killed from shooting a hole through the plane.
Kala and Derek made eye contact. Kala could tell Derek was
thinking the same thing. He whispered so only Kala could hear, “Do it.”
Kala’s nod was barely perceptible.
Jack saw her and his eyes went wide. “Kala STOP!”
Kala shrugged. “I can’t let him do this, Jack. I’m sorry.”
Only the top of Wilton’s head was showing.
It was enough.
Kala took her shot.
Favorite
Lines “There must be something wrong with him. No one was that perfect.”
“Asmodeus
looked shocked at Kala’s behavior. She knew in that moment that no one had ever
turned this guy down before. He was apparently used to women falling at his
feet, drooling over his good looks. Kala never cared for conceited guys.”
“You
and Jack cannot exist together. One of you has to be sacrificed or the world
will collapse in on itself. When you became Atlas you sealed your fate and
Jack’s. He’s the potential, you’re the Fated One.”
“Kala,
it was always supposed to be you.”
Kala
is a super trained bad ass solider! She doesn't allow her self to feel for
anyone but Jack her commander is someone she might actually love. While on a
mission something happens and Kala's world is turned completely upside down.
Kala is thrust into a world of Gods, Demon, Grigori, and Malak. She's become
the Atlas and has to doing a vile act every 4 days to keep the world from
ending, her first "mission" is something she can't even begin to
fathom. Her heart is breaking and the world could end if she doesn't do what
needs to be done. I've never read a book like this before and I flew through
this book. It's an action packed ride and I loved every page of it. This world
is spectacular and I can't wait to read more of it!
I
was given this book in exchange for an honest review (RBTL)
FIVE
FATED FAIRIES
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