Spark Rising by Kate Corcino
Publication date: December 15th 2014
Genres: New Adult, Post-Apocalyptic, Science Fiction
Publication date: December 15th 2014
Genres: New Adult, Post-Apocalyptic, Science Fiction
Synopsis:
All that’s required to ignite a revolution is a single spark rising.
Two hundred years after the cataclysm that annihilated fossil fuels, Sparks keep electricity flowing through their control of energy-giving Dust. The Council of Nine rebuilt civilization on the backs of Sparks, offering citizens a comfortable life in a relo-city in exchange for power, particularly over the children able to fuel the future. The strongest of the boys are taken as Wards and raised to become elite agents, the Council’s enforcers and spies. Strong girls—those who could advance the rapidly-evolving matrilineal power—don’t exist. Not according to the Council.
Lena Gracey died as a child, mourned publicly by parents desperate to keep her from the Council. She was raised in hiding until she fled the relo-city for solitary freedom in the desert. Lena lives off the grid, selling her power on the black market.
Agent Alex Reyes was honed into a calculating weapon at the Ward School to do the Council’s dirty work. But Alex lives a double life. He’s leading the next generation of agents in a secret revolution to destroy those in power from within.
The life Lena built to escape her past ends the day Alex arrives looking for a renegade Spark.
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AUTHOR BIO:
Kate Corcino is a reformed shy girl who found her voice (and uses it…a lot). She believes in magic, coffee, Starburst candies, genre fiction, descriptive profanity, and cackling over wine with good friends. A recovering Dr. Pepper addict, she knows the only addiction worth feeding is the one that follows the “click-whooooosh” of a new story settling into her brain.
She also believes in the transformative power of screwing up and second chances. Cheers to works-in-progress of the literary and lifelong variety!
She is currently gearing up for publication of Ignition Point and Spark Rising , the first books in the Progenitor Saga, a near future dystopian adventure series with romantic elements, science, magic, and plenty of action.
She also believes in the transformative power of screwing up and second chances. Cheers to works-in-progress of the literary and lifelong variety!
She is currently gearing up for publication of Ignition Point and Spark Rising , the first books in the Progenitor Saga, a near future dystopian adventure series with romantic elements, science, magic, and plenty of action.
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EXCERPT!!!
Spark Rising’s Lena Gracey does
things her way, with few apologies, even as Alex Reyes uses her need for
vengeance to draw her into a revolution. Frustrated, angry, and tired, all she
wants is a physical release, and she turns to the one man she thinks can give
her that with no strings attached. But the strong chemistry born of hard-won
friendship and the electrical power that seethes in both of them guarantees
they both get more than they bargained for…
“I
know you want me.”
Alex
growled and narrowed his dark eyes. “We all want you, because you’re special.”
“Then
give me fifteen minutes. You want to fix it. That will. Give me that.”
“Fifteen
minutes of tension relief? That’s what you’re asking for?”
This
isn’t about feelings,
she told herself. No feelings.
Lena
lifted her chin. She wouldn’t play by anyone else’s rules. “Yes.”
“Yes?”
Alex nodded. “It’s not me, then. Not personal.” He looked past her, his eyes
hooded. When he brought them back to her again, she could see the decision he’d
made. “Sounds like something I can live with.”
She
leaned in as he reached to slide his hand up her jaw.
His
palm cupped her face, fingers tangling in her hair as it slid forward. His
thumb moved across her lips. Lena slid her knees up onto the seat to either
side of him, straddling him as he pulled her mouth to his.
Like
the first time, the contact was more than lips meeting, the electric flare
deeper and brighter than it had been with Jackson. But this time, the only
thing soft about his kiss was his lips.
Energy
surged between them. As his tongue traced the inside of her lips, a blazing
trail of shocks flared in her skin and exploded like bright lights behind her
eyelids. He sucked at her lips, first one and then the other, and energy welled
up from her. As he pulled and coaxed, the rising flow felt like fingers
stroking deep inside. Each time he drew her lip into his mouth to suckle at the
energy, those fingers of power slid up inside of her, moving toward him,
leaving a quivering, electrified trail behind. He drew her power into himself.
Lena
pulled away, and the electricity crackled white energy between their wet
mouths. It hurt, little sparks popping against nerve endings. Alex’s eyes were
glazed. He wanted more. But it was her turn.
She
lowered her mouth again, pulling the energy from him this time as she darted
her tongue between his lips. She framed his face with her small hands and
tapped the energy deep within him to draw it up into her through his nerves,
his skin, his lips, and tongue.
Lena
pulled away, and the electricity crackled white energy between their wet
mouths. It hurt, little sparks popping against nerve endings. Alex’s eyes were
glazed. He wanted more. But it was her turn.
She
lowered her mouth again, pulling the energy from him this time as she darted
her tongue between his lips. She framed his face with her small hands and
tapped the energy deep within him to draw it up into her through his nerves,
his skin, his lips, and tongue.
Alex
groaned and wrapped his hands around the backs of her legs. He slid them up,
cupping the curve of her bottom, fingers caressing the crease that led him to
her inner thighs. He drew her to him.
She
allowed it, pressing against his body. She wanted more of him. More pressure.
More skin against skin. Her hands sank down from his face to slip between them,
pulling on his shirt. She pulled it up and off, tearing her mouth from his for
an instant to yank the shirt over his head.
He
worked the buttons of her shirt, fumbling at them in his hurry. He freed the
last of them, spreading her shirt open and back and pushing it off her
shoulders. He sat back to look at her.
She followed his gaze to
his hands. They spread wide across her ribcage, his sun-darkened brown
skin
stark against her pale freckles. Above his hands, her skin curved into the
slight swell of paler
skin and peaked nipples. He slid his hands up to palm her
sensitive breasts, and she pressed into him,
sliding her hands up to cover his. His thumb circled her nipple then slid away as he pulled her up.
He drew her into his mouth, the power slicking electric hot up her nerves. She arched her back,
melting into him, already shuddering with the force of the energy surging through her as he licked at
her. He slid his hands around her back, pulled her closer, holding tight. Everywhere their skin met,
the searing flux of energy wove between them. Each time their skin parted, a white arc of heat
spanned the distance and danced along their skin, joining them.
Lena sank lower, pushing her hand between his waistband and his skin. She slid her fingertips
along his lower belly before dipping lower. The soft, almost delicate skin she found was a contrast
to the rigid flesh it covered. She wrapped her hand around him and pulled energy along the length of
him.
Alex's hands and mouth stilled and his eyes closed.
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