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:
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 giveawayTour Schedule:
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