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WHEN DARK FALLS
In a city where Dark
Technologies Inc. now runs the show, Kadie Williams has more immediate concerns
than the fall of Blaze, their guardian superhero. Almost every morning for the
last few months she’s woken up with cuts and bruises on her body, and no idea
how she got them. There are no nightmares. No evidence that she sleepwalks, or
any sign of a break in. And nothing to tell her who’s been cleaning up after
her. As just one of thousands of civilians conscripted to slave away in the
labs of Professor Dark, she knew there'd be trouble ahead. But she never expected it to be so bad, or so
personal.
Desperate for answers,
Kadie looks to the new defender of the night, the only person who can
hinder the total domination of Professor Dark—Nocturnelle. The mysterious
vigilante superhero came from nowhere with her cybernetic sidekick Shadow, set
on putting an end to the brutality of Dark's regime. But as his laboratories
work on a new secret super-weapon, Nocturnelle and Shadow may not be enough to
save Nephopolis...or to save Kadie either.
When Dark Falls is an alternative 1920s superhero romance released by Breathless Press on the 21st November. Add it to your Goodreads shelf HERE. Sign up to my no-spam newsletter HERE to stay up to date with releases, cover reveals, sales and giveaways for all my titles and more.
EXCERPT:
The roar of the
cloudburner flaming into life woke her. The vibration as it powered up rippled
through the building created a disturbance impossible to sleep through. No more
being roused from sleep by the dawn chorus of traffic or a rowdy neighbor.
Those days were long past. Everyone in Nephopolis woke to the sound of fire
burning into the clouds, to cast a false darkness over the city.
The shadow of
Dark.
Kadie stretched...and
froze. She stared at her left arm. A pattern of blue and purple covered her
forearm, a harsh contrast to her otherwise pale skin.
She shuddered,
turning her arm this way and that. Had she fallen out of bed? And if so, why
hadn't she woken? She didn't remember catching it on anything yesterday that
would have gone unnoticed and yet left such intense bruising. One day blurred
into another now, but even so, surely she'd remember hurting herself that
badly?
If I'd been conscious. She
sat up and examined the bruise. It was the fourth injury in as many nights, and
yet there'd been no dreams. No sign she'd left her bed in the night. Would she
know if she'd been sleepwalking? After all, she lived and slept alone. Unless
she was leaving her apartment to wander around in the corridors...
The idea made
her stomach churn too much to consider it. Instead, she swung her legs out from
under the duvet. Pale pink flannel pajamas clothed her, crumpled from a night's
sleep but nothing more. Her bare feet revealed no signs of midnight wandering.
What the hell had happened to her arm when everything else seemed so normal?
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