by B.R.
Myers
Genre: YA
Release Date: April 25th 2017
Blue Moon Publishers
Nefertari “Terry” Hughes is looking forward to
spending the school break with her boyfriend, but when her archaeologist father
announces he’s working on a project that will take him to Egypt, all hopes of
having a romantic summer are buried.
Terry accompanies her father to Alexandria where she’s reunited with her first
crush, Awad—all grown up and an expert in translating hieroglyphics. He
confides that the team is in a race to find Cleopatra’s lost tomb before a
secret band of rebels steals Egypt’s last Pharaoh and her diadem.
But sabotage and a deadly accident put everyone on high alert, and Terry isn’t
sure whom to trust. As the line between ally and enemy begins to blur, Terry
has to keep her wits about her and figure out who wants the diadem badly enough
to kill.
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It was the gap of
unnatural quiet that made Terry look up from her phone, her thumb hovering over
the ‘send’ button. She stayed crouched in the candy aisle, a bag of
chocolate-covered gummi bears in one hand, her phone in the other. Maude’s text
was waiting for a reply.
RU???!!!
Terry slowly lowered the
bag of candy to the tiled floor. Every crinkle of the plastic sounded like
cracks of thunder. She paused and listened again. There was only the hum of the
fluorescent lights of the convenience store. Terry carefully stood and craned
her neck around the aisle. Her heart pulsed adrenaline as she peeked around a
towering display of two-liter pop bottles.
The young clerk behind
the cash register stood like a statue, pale-faced with his mouth hanging open,
staring into the face of a man in a ski mask. A pistol was pointed at the
clerk’s nose.
“All of it,” the voice
behind the mask demanded, motioning to the open satchel on the counter.
Here we go again,
Terry thought. She took in a calculated breath, glancing around the area. The
pop bottles were no use. Then a smile tugged at the corner of her mouth. There,
at the end of the opposite aisle, displayed with garbage bags and tubes of
crazy glue, was the answer.
Slipping the phone into
the back pocket of her denim shorts, she dashed, staying ducked down and
keeping out of sight. It only took seconds to reach what she needed. And then,
moving so quickly that neither the clerk nor the gunman turned her way, Terry
struck the first blow.
I write YA, appreciate a design in my cappuccino, love shopping for vintage
jewelry and dream in color. Coming from Nimbus Publishing, my contemporary
coming of age novels, BUTTERFLIES DON'T LIE (SEPTEMBER 15,2014) and GIRL ON THE
RUNJUST JESSE (Fall 2015). from Fierce Ink Press, ASP OF ASCENSION (July 2015).
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