Rush (The Game #1)
by Eve Silver
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Publisher: Harper Teen
Summary from Goodreads:
So what’s the game now? This, or the life I used to know?
When Miki Jones is pulled from her life, pulled through time and space into some kind of game—her carefully controlled life spirals into chaos. In the game, she and a team of other teens are sent on missions to eliminate the Drau, terrifying and beautiful alien creatures.
There are no practice runs, no training, and no way out. Miki has only the guidance of secretive but maddeningly attractive team leader Jackson Tate, who says the game isn’t really a game, that what Miki and her new teammates do now determines their survival, and the survival of every other person on this planet. She laughs. He doesn’t. And then the game takes a deadly and terrifying turn.
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There are no practice runs, no training, and no way out. Miki has only the guidance of secretive but maddeningly attractive team leader Jackson Tate, who says the game isn’t really a game, that what Miki and her new teammates do now determines their survival, and the survival of every other person on this planet. She laughs. He doesn’t. And then the game takes a deadly and terrifying turn.
Excerpt:
“You can lean on
me,” Jackson says.
“I—”
“Lean on me.”
Not an offer this time, an order.
I scoot over and
lean my weight against his arm.
“Not like that.”
He shifts both of us around until my back’s against one side of his
chest, my head lolling sideways onto his shoulder, our legs stretched
out in front of us, side by side. Not perfect on the comfort score,
but better than it was a minute ago. He rests his chin lightly on the
top of my head and tells me, “Sleep.”
“What about you?”
“I’ll keep
watch. I’ve been doing this long enough that I don’t need rest
while we’re on a mission.”
“What about Luka
and Tyrone?”
“They won’t need
to rest, either. You’re still getting used to the jumps. By the
next mission or the one after that, you’ll be like us. A
robo-soldier.” And there it is again, that thread of humor, like
he’s laughing at himself.
“Is that supposed
to reassure me? ’Cause I gotta tell ya, thinking about upcoming
missions doesn’t exactly thrill me.”
I jump when his
hands settle on my shoulders. Then I sigh as he kneads my muscles.
Long fingers. Strong hands. Some of my tension slips away.
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Eve Silver lives with her gamer husband and sons, sometimes in Canada, but often in worlds she dreams up. She loves kayaking and sunshine, dogs and desserts, and books, lots and lots of books. Watch for the first book in Eve’s new teen series, THE GAME: RUSH, coming from Katherine Tegen Books, June 2013. She also writes books for adults.
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