Thunder City where Superheroes are the norm.
Blood Surfer By Debra Jess
Superhero Paranormal Romance
Released September 7, 2015
Publisher: Debra Jess, Corp.
Series: Thunder City, Book 1
Their destiny is written in blood.
Welcome to Star Haven, where the police arrest and imprison alternative humans, if not execute them outright. When outlaw Hannah Quinn saves Officer Scott Grey’s life by bloodsurfing through his broken body, he winds up on the wrong side of the kill line.
Hannah blew any chance she had of escaping Star Haven when she chose to save Scott’s life. Scott has a reputation for killing Alts instead of arresting them. Now that she’s triggered his dormant Alt ability, he’s forced to go on the run with her until she can break his despised Alt power.
Suspicion dies hard after a lifetime of conditioning. Despite the threat to their lives, Hannah finds herself falling for the one man she can’t trust—and Scott falls for the woman who destroyed his life.
With love and mistrust at war in a city where betrayal can earn your freedom, will Hannah and Scott’s tenuous bond be enough to save them?
Reviewed by Jean
Thunder City where Superheroes are the norm.
Blood Surfer is a bit of a unique spin on the superhero romance genre. Rather than just a handful of superheroes we get the unique city of genetically alternative superheroes with a multitude of powers. At one time, they were widespread and even inhabited the city of Star Haven. Then six months ago all alts, as the superheroes are known were banned from the city. The humans of Star Haven were tired of paying for the damages caused by alts and the threat of possible telepathic invasion of their privacy.
Unfortunately, Hannah Quinn had no way to escape the clutches of her power hungry mother’s reach by leaving the city for Thunder City where alts are accepted and revered when all the others left. When you’re underage and every cop is looking for the Mayor’s daughter there’s no transport available to escape without recapture. So for the past six months, Hannah has lived incognito in a lean-to on top of the hospital. Then one day, things get crazy and a man drops out of a listing helicopter right onto her makeshift home. To say his damages are significant would be an understatement. To top that off the man Hannah decides to save is known as an alt killer and he’s a cop. Talk about putting herself into a precarious situation. While healing Officer Scott Grey, Hannah notices a small black thread in his brain that appears to have been severed so she repairs it as well. Her healing complete and Hannah totally drained, she passes out at Scott’s feet just as he’s coming too.
Scott has had one hell of a day already before he wakes and finds the missing Mayor’s daughter at his feet. A quick trip to the ER and its time to decide whether or not to alert the Mayor, after all Hannah has just turned eighteen and it’s really up to her whether she wants to go back or not. When Hannah accuses her mother of killing her stepfather and Scott discovers that she is in fact, an alt on the run he decides to help the damsel in distress. The fact that he has discovered that he now has alt powers himself and wants Hannah to reverse the process and make him normal again might just play into things just a little bit. Then there are the secrets he’s keeping… much like Hannah has her own secrets. But secrets have a way of coming out into the open at some point.
Blood Surfer has all the danger, excitement, and suspense of a typical superhero novel with the added benefit of two superheroes falling helplessly in love. There are evil machinations at foot and Hannah’s mom appears to be in league with some pretty bad people with nefarious plans for the alts. It’s going to take sacrifice, hard work and just a bit of luck for all the alts to come out on top. If you like superhero romances you’re going to enjoy this start to the Thunder City series.
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Valley of the Blind
A Thunder City Short Story
Below the surface, wishes become nightmares.
Seeker’s extraordinary vision allows him to see the world layer by layer. When he peels back the layers of his own family however, he discovers secrets he wished he’d never learned. Soon after, he’s kidnapped by terrorists hell-bent on starting a war with Thunder City. They plan to use Seeker as the catalyst, the fall guy for a political assassination. Can Seeker use his vision to save Thunder City and himself before it’s too late?
Valley of the Blind, Book 2
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Slow Burn
A Thunder City Short Story
The vendetta of a lifetime will burn hotter if you mix it with water.
Spritz made headlines as child when the Happy Hooligan lured her into the woods on Halloween and terrorized her all night long. As an adult with the power to manipulate water, she’s become a formidable alternative human in her own right. When the Happy Hooligan returns to set the famous Thunder City boardwalk on fire, Spritz knows deep in her soul that his plans are more nefarious than watching the boardwalk burn. Stopping him will mean disobeying orders and could cost her the life she’s worked so hard to rebuild.
Slow Burn, Book 3
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Still Life
A Thunder City Short Story
When angels guide your hand, failure is not an option.
Angels appear in Claire’s artwork, warning her of tragedies before they occur. Despite society’s belief that she’s crazy, Claire can’t turn her back on people who are in danger. When her angels warn her of a mass shooting about to happen, Claire risks her life to stop it, but will she have to give up her freedom forever to succeed?
Still Life, Book 4
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A Connecticut Yankee transplanted to Central Florida, Debra Jess writes science fiction, romance, urban fantasy, and superheroes. She began writing in 2006, combining her love of fairy tales andStar Wars to craft original stories of ordinary people in extraordinary adventures and fantastical creatures in out-of-this world escapades. Her manuscripts have won the Golden Pen Award(Paranormal category) and theGolden Palm award(Paranormal/Sci-Fi/Fantasy category).
Debra is a graduate of Viable Paradise and is a member of Codex. She’s also a member of the Romance Writers of America and RWA’s Fantasy, Futuristic, & Paranormal chapter, the First Coast Romance Writers and she’s the Vice President of the Volusia County Romance Writers.
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