Atlas
The Atlas
Series
Book 1
Becca C.
Smith
Genre: Urban
Fantasy
Publisher:
Red Frog Publishing
Date of
Publication: 11/14/13
ISBN:
978-0985027667 (Ebook)
ISBN: 978-1493648375
(Print)
ASIN:
B00GPBF8X2
Number of
pages: 293
Word Count:
73,000
Cover Artist:
Stephan Fleet
Book
Description:
Kala Hicks is part of a covert elite military team that
answers directly to the President of the United States. But during an emergency
mission aboard Air Force One, Kala is shocked to discover that the real threat
is none other than the President himself. Defying her commanding officer, Jack
Norbin, Kala takes the shot, and her life changes forever.
The moment the President is killed, a supernatural force
speaks to Kala, telling her that she has to commit one act of atrocity every
four days… or the world will end. Thrown into a reality she never could have
imagined, Kala faces off with 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. And four days later, she’ll have to do it again.
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.
About the
Author:
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.
Website: http://www.beccacsmith.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/therisersaga
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