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RIDING THE PULSE
Ebook ISBN: 9781605217222
Publisher: Changeling Press
December 2, 2011
Marissa O’Neill and Jurden Bailey share a past which they don’t remember, though it’s haunted their dreams for a decade. In their teens, they encountered something powerful in a cave in Mexico, and it changed them forever. But it isn’t until they meet again, years later that they realize just how much they’ve changed.
Suddenly they have these powers—super powers—and they don’t know how they’re supposed to use them or why they have them. All they know is that sex seems to trigger the power and enhance it. And that’s one trigger they’re happy to explore.
But something alien and terrifying is trying to kill them and it won’t give up until it gets what they don’t even know they have—the single remaining object that can tie an advanced, alien race to much of Earth’s history.
If only Rissa weren’t so distracted by the things Jurden’s vibrating finger can do!
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Something flashed in her peripheral vision and she turned her head. Further down the wall, just beyond the water’s edge, something glowed, turning the water an unnatural shade of blue-green. “Jurden, look. What’s that?”
He took two more pictures before turning to see what she was looking at. When he did he frowned. “That wasn’t there before.”
They walked slowly toward the glow. Without even realizing it, they both reached out and clasped hands. As they got nearer the source of the glow they heard a humming sound, like the sound of thousands of volts of electricity running through a power line.
“I’m sure that wasn’t there before either.” Jurden said in a whisper.
Rissa tightened her grip on his hand and pulled, digging in her heels. “Maybe we shouldn’t go any closer.”
He looked at her, then back to the glowing section of water, and laughed. “It’s probably just one of those glowing fish. Haven’t you ever been on a cruise and seen them? They’re really cool.”
Rissa shook her head, looking dubious. But she finally let him pull her forward and soon they were crouching at the edge of the water, careful not to let it touch their toes.
“What is it?” Rissa asked in a strangely breathless voice. She realized her chest was constricted with fear and she was having trouble breathing.
Instead of answering, Jurden reached toward the oddly shaped object beneath the water’s surface. “It looks like a rock.”
Rissa reached out and stopped him just before his fingers broke the surface of the water. “Don’t touch it!
“Why not? It looks cool.”
“You don’t know what it is…what it will do.”
He shook his head and, on impulse, leaned over and kissed her.
Rissa’s eyes flew open in surprise and, for just a breath in time, her senses expanded under the soft pleasure of his kiss.
But then Jurden’s body dipped as he reached for the object. Rissa just had time to scream, “No!” Before light and sound exploded painfully around them.
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