“Riveting…Incredible sexual tension…I could not put it down.” —Under the Covers
Having finally reunited, and fought off the Deceiver for now, Mary and Michael race up the Michigan peninsula to meet Astra before police forces catch up with them. But the closer they get, the less Mary is willing to trust a woman who by her own admission will do anything to finish the Deceiver—even if it means killing Michael and Mary to try again in another life. As they face their final battle, Michael’s loyalties are tested, making him vulnerable just when Mary needs him most.
Adam Christopher’s LA Trilogy, following his novella “Brisk Money,” a sci-fi/noir mashup trilogy set in an alternate 1960s Los Angeles and starring Raymond Electromatic, a robot detective, and his boss, a computer named Googol, inspired by Raymond Chandler’s parody of sci-fi/fantasy in a letter to his agent, to Paul Stevens at Tor, by Stacia Decker.
School Library Journal: Fans of The Testing will be thrilled with this new installment and will be anxiously waiting for the story’s conclusion. In this sequel, Cia is drawn deeper into the political machinations of Tosu City as she enters the University. She is accepted into the Government course of study, much to her disappointment. Now, joined by students from the City who did not have to endure the Testing, she must go through a hazing process that forces her to once again rely on her wits to survive. 
Booklist: The second book in the Others series continues to tell of the struggles of humans and the “terra indigene,” commonly referred to as Others. Building on the story told in the initial book, Written in Red (2013), Meg Corbyn is finding that life as a blood prophet, away from the man who had owned her, is anything but simple. In this fascinating tale, the Others, including vampires and shape-shifters, are the dominant species of the continent, and humans are the interlopers, barely tolerated. 
