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Relentless
(The Hero Agenda #2)
by Tera Lynn Childs & Tracy Deebs
YA Urban Fantasy, Paranormal, Superheroes
Hardcover & ebook 288 pages
June 7th2016 by Sourcebooks Fire
Summary
Revenge is easy, but justice is worth fighting for…
Kenna is tired of being lied to—and hunted by the very allies she once trusted. Unearthing the dark secrets of the superhero world has not only endangered her life, now her boyfriend faces execution for crimes he didn’t commit and her mother is being held captive in a secret governmental prison.
Kenna is determined to stand up for what’s right and save those she loves from unspeakable fates. It’s time for the betrayal to end. It’s time for the real criminals to face justice.
But the truth is even more terrifying than Kenna could imagine. A conspiracy threatens the fate of heroes, villains, and all of humanity. If Kenna’s going to survive, she must draw on her deepest strength: her resilience. Because when Kenna’s pushed to the limit, she doesn’t break down. She fights back.
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Excerpt from Relentless
“I got this,” Dante yells to me. “Work the
plan, Kenna.”
I nod and leave him to deal with
Rebel.
As much as I want to free my mom
first—family instinct is begging me to save her—I don’t know what her power is,
don’t know if she can help us. At least I know what Draven’s powers can do. And
right now, we need all the help we can get.
Nitro is standing on top of the table,
right above Rex’s seat, lobbing small, white fireballs in a never-ending
stream. He has the entire stage basically surrounded, with most of the
Collective cowering behind a wall of white-hot flame.
Riley has a couple of the others and
two more guards tied to the track lighting in the ceiling and is going after a
guard who is shooting potassium bicarbonate all over Nitro’s firewall.
So, in other words, all is going
according to plan. Thank God.
Draven is struggling against his
shackles, which are secured to a giant loop in the stage floor. I want so much
to pull him close and physically assure myself that he’s fine, but there isn’t
time for that.
Instead, I move behind him and find
the latch on the powers-neutralizing helmet. An instant later, I yank it off
and toss it across the room. It’s useless now, thanks to my circuit-destroying
EMP.
“What the --- are you doing here?”
Draven demands.
Does he really have to ask?
I flash him a
more-confident-than-I-feel smile. “Saving your ass. As usual.”
He gives me the cocky half smile I’ve
come to love, and that more than anything else makes me believe that things
will turn out okay.
“Kenna!”
I turn at Riley’s shout, just in time
to see Mr. Malone break through Nitro’s firewall. Right behind me.
I freeze. This is the first time I’ve
been face-to-face with Mr. Malone since I found out all the terrible things
he’s done.
Since I found out he tortures decent
people for reasons I can’t even begin to fathom.
Since I found out the word hero was a big, fat lie and they aren’t the good guys after all.
Rage overtakes me and I lunge for him,
forgetting the plan, forgetting everything but the need to make him hurt as
he’s hurt so many of the people I care about. In a flash, Rex’s hands are
around my throat. I’m completely immobilized, lifted to my toes and barely able
to breathe.
Draven is enraged as he turns on
Rex—his father—and shouts, “You’re not going to touch her!”
“Who’s going to stop me?” Rex sneers.
“You?”
An instant later, he releases me and
drops to his knees, howling in pain as Draven uses his biomanipulation to do
God knows what to Mr. Malone.
I draw in gasping breaths, relieved at
the oxygen now flooding my bloodstream.
“Never go near her again,” Draven
snarls, ramping up his biomanipulation grip on his father.
I lay my hand on Draven’s arm. We
aren’t here to kill Rex, and the last thing we need is anyone in this room
learning that Draven has a second power.
His muscles relax beneath my palm, and
so do mine. Just this brief contact with him is enough to center me even in the
middle of all this chaos.
Rex collapses into a lump.
Draven snorts with disgust as he
stands over his father’s prone body.
The faint thump-thump-thump of an
approaching helicopter jolts me back into action. We have to move, now, before
reinforcements show up and eliminate our escape plan.
Quiz
Other Books in the Series
(The Hero Agenda #1)
by Tera Lynn Childs & Tracy Deebs
YA Urban Fantasy, Paranormal, Super Heroes
Hardcover, Paperback & ebook 320 pages
June 2nd 2015 by Sourcebooks Fire
Summary
Kenna is tired of being “normal.”
The only thing special about her is that she isn’t special at all. Which is frustrating when you’re constantly surrounded by superheroes. Her best friend, her ex-boyfriend, practically everyone she knows has some talent or power. Sure, Kenna’s smart and independent, but as an ordinary girl in an extraordinary world, it’s hard not to feel inferior.
So when three villains break into the lab where she interns, Kenna refuses to be a victim. She’s not about to let criminals steal the research that will make her extraordinary too.
But in the heat of battle, secrets are spilled and one of the villains saves her life. Twice. Suddenly, everything Kenna thought she knew about good and evil, heroes and villains is upended. And to protect her life and those she loves, she must team up with her sworn enemies on a mission that will redefine what it means to be powerful and powerless…
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About the Authors
Powerless Website│Tracy Deebs' Goodreads
Tera Lynn Childs' Goodreads│Tera Lynn Childs' Website│Tera Lynn Childs' Twitter
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Giveaway
Print copy of Powerless, the first in the Hero Agenda series
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