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Wednesday, September 4, 2024

Blog Tour- EDGE OF THE KNOWN WORLD by #SheriTJoseph With Sheri's Dream Cast & A #Giveaway! @gosparkpress, @wildboundpr

I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the EDGE OF THE KNOWN WORLD by Sheri T. Joseph Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!

 

About The Book:

Title: EDGE OF THE KNOWN WORLD

Author: Sheri T. Joseph

Pub. Date: September 3, 2024

Publisher: SparkPress

Formats:  Paperback, eBook, Audiobook

Pages: 328

Find it: Goodreads, https://books2read.com/EDGE-OF-THE-KNOWN-WORLD 

Fans of Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake will be swept away by this riveting speculative fiction adventure and love story about family, genetic privacy, and the onrushing future of surveillance technology.

2024 American Fiction Awards Winner in multiple categories, including Best New Fiction, Political Thriller, and Science Fiction

Alexandra Tashen is a brilliant student, adoring daughter, merry wit, and exuberant prankster. After a blissful childhood on a Texas ranch, she learns the truth: She is a refusé, an illegal refugee smuggled into the Allied Nations as an infant. Everyone from her birth region carries a harmless but detectable bit of viral DNA from a flu vaccine. If detected by the rapid genetic testing at security screens, Alex will be returned to the Federation and a likely death. Her adoptive father developed a gene therapy to mask her g-marker, but it is not fully effective. Every g-screen presents a nerve-racking one-in-ten chance of getting caught.

When her father goes missing, Alex abandons her cloistered academic life in San Francisco for a globe-trotting Commission in a desperate race to warn him of a trap that will destroy them both. As Alex dodges g-screens on her precarious and often-hilarious adventure, a love triangle develops between her and two men: Eric Burton, a commanding and disgraced intelligence officer, and his blood brother, Strav Beki, a charismatic and dangerously unhinged diplomat. Betrayals mount and secrets unravel, building to the most confounding choices that people can face—choices between love, family loyalty, and moral obligation.

 

Excerpt:

(San Francisco.  Alex Tashen (23) has a soul-shaking night protecting her great secret: forced to sneak from a party on a dangerous ladder, refuse a dream international post, and dodge a g-screen by instigating a vicious argument between her mentor, Kommandant Suzanne Burton, and a general. Alex escapes to her apartment, only to learn that her beloved father, who disappeared in Nepal, will soon be arrested.)

Her phone was back to showing the time. Not an hour ago she was climbing down a fire escape. She was a plaything for some vicious gods, and nothing about this life was her choice.

The foghorn called her to the window. Five stories, sixty miles per hour at the ground, no ladder. Alex leaned out to the void of pinprick rain, precariously balanced at the edge of despair.

Familiar voices rose from the street, and Alex jerked back to safety. The Kommandant and the general stood in the circle of yellow streetlight, sharing a smoke, too engaged to have checked their phones. The incline of their bodies suggested they weren’t going home alone tonight.

Alex’s first reaction was queasy surprise that people that age still wanted it. It was followed by the mournful realization that the Kommandant was getting more action than she was.

Still—the chill night felt different, fresh with change. The wind tasted of towering mountains and snow. She thought of her overdue brief, the Commission headed to the Nepali Protectorate on the strength of her expertise. She couldn’t travel because of the g-screens. But now screens had traveled to her. Safety was an illusion. If she didn’t find and warn Patrick before his next Asylum Netcast, they were dead anyway. She had eight weeks to save them both.

The thought electrified every atom of her being. She did have a choice: either stay put as she had promised, a powerless victim, or use her gift of brains to fight back.

Patrick’s voice in her head thundered, Stop. Think. An occasional g-screen here was not the exponential risk of constant screens in Asia. But a search plan was coming to view, like a laser held to invisible ink. It was time to live as her father lived, and not by what he said.

The surprise couple below lit up another smoke. It was probably best to let the Kommandant finish her hookup, but Alex had read that sex for old people took a long time, and she had none to waste.

“Kommandant!” Alex yelled down. The two soldiers ducked as if shot at. “The Commission doesn’t need my brief. They need me.”

The Kommandant squinted up against the streetlight. Her petite upturned face worked from irate to calculating, as if this one new variable might cure her multiple headaches. “Maybe,” answered Kommandant Burton. “But I’m not the one you need to convince.

 


About Sheri T. Joseph:


Sheri T. Joseph
 grew up in a New York beach town until her family relocated to San Francisco. She holds a bachelor’s degree from UC Berkeley and a JD from UC Law San Francisco. She is passionate about the need for housing and serves as executive director of a nonprofit corporation that supports creation of affordable housing for families, veterans, refugees, and vulnerable populations. She’s also a trustee for Homeward Bound, a provider of homeless services and housing. Sheri and her husband have three adventurous children and live in Tiburon, California. This is her first book.

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Giveaway Details:

5 winners will receive a finished copy of EDGE OF THE KNOWN WORLD, US only.

Ends September 17th, midnight EST.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Tour Schedule:

Week One:

9/2/2024

Lady Hawkeye

Excerpt/IG Post

9/2/2024

Book Review Virginia Lee Blog

Excerpt/IG Post

9/3/2024

MoonShine Art Spot

Excerpt

9/3/2024

Two Chicks on Books

Guest Post/IG Post

9/4/2024

Fire and Ice Reads

Guest Post/IG Post

9/4/2024

Book Review Virginia Lee Blog

Excerpt/IG Post

9/5/2024

@heyashleyyreads

IG Review/TikTok Post

9/5/2024

@thepagelady

IG Review

9/6/2024

Books and Zebras

IG Review

9/6/2024

Edith's Little Free Library

IG Post/TikTok Post

Week Two:

9/9/2024

thefashionistfiles

Review/IG Post

9/9/2024

@callistoscalling

IG Review

9/10/2024

@parkhopandpages

IG Review

9/10/2024

jlreadstoperpetuity

IG Review/TikTok Post

9/11/2024

Kim's Book Reviews and Writing Aha's

Review/IG Post

9/11/2024

A Blue Box Full of Books

IG Review/LFL Drop Pic/TikTok Post

9/12/2024

anitralovesbooksanddogs

IG Review

9/12/2024

Country Mamas With Kids

IG Review

9/13/2024

@stargirls.magical.tale

IG Review

9/13/2024

Bookgirlbrown_reviews

Review/IG Post


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