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Marc Koralnik |
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THE RULE OF LUCK
Felicia Sevigny runs a successful tarot card shop off Night's Alley in Nairobi, Kenya. One Gov is in power, and Earth, Mars and Venus live in a benevolent utopia of tri-state harmony. All is well in luck and love, except for the fact that Felicia's been blacklisted from the Shared Hope program which would give her what she wants most: a baby. She's terrified her boyfriend will dump her if he discovers the truth. On the morning of her appointment with a Shared Hope arbiter she's visited by a tall dark and handsome customer with a Russian accent who wants a tarot reading and won't take no for an answer. Felicia begrudgingly does a reading for him - which changes the course of her life forever.
Soon, as Felicia attempts to illegally coerce a One Gov official at a Shared Hope facility to overturn her blacklisted status, the building explodes and she takes the fall. She's rescued from the OneGov pit by Alexei Petriv, the mysterious and insistent customer, who is actually the Crown Price of the Tsarist Consortium Crime syndicate- the Russian-led opposition which is attempted to overthrow OneGov. But her release from prison comes at a price: If she works for him for two weeks, he'll erase her blacklisted status. It's an offer Felicia can't refuse.
Yet with each task she performs, she uncovers a sinister web of lies, including a gene for luck hidden in her DNA, which people are willing to kill to possess. Soon, she discovers that despite her family's aversion to biotech modifications and direct mind-link access to the Cerebral Neural net, Felicia may be handing Petriv the keys to shattering One Gov and changing what it means to be born human. Worse, her attraction to him may be the undoing of everything she has ever known.
Catherine Cerveny has degrees in English, History and Library and Information Sciences from Trent University and the University of Western Ontario. She is an avid reader of both science fiction and romance two genres she wishes came together more often. She also runs a local speculative fiction writers group in her native city of Fraserville, Ontario.
Soon, as Felicia attempts to illegally coerce a One Gov official at a Shared Hope facility to overturn her blacklisted status, the building explodes and she takes the fall. She's rescued from the OneGov pit by Alexei Petriv, the mysterious and insistent customer, who is actually the Crown Price of the Tsarist Consortium Crime syndicate- the Russian-led opposition which is attempted to overthrow OneGov. But her release from prison comes at a price: If she works for him for two weeks, he'll erase her blacklisted status. It's an offer Felicia can't refuse.
Yet with each task she performs, she uncovers a sinister web of lies, including a gene for luck hidden in her DNA, which people are willing to kill to possess. Soon, she discovers that despite her family's aversion to biotech modifications and direct mind-link access to the Cerebral Neural net, Felicia may be handing Petriv the keys to shattering One Gov and changing what it means to be born human. Worse, her attraction to him may be the undoing of everything she has ever known.
Catherine Cerveny has degrees in English, History and Library and Information Sciences from Trent University and the University of Western Ontario. She is an avid reader of both science fiction and romance two genres she wishes came together more often. She also runs a local speculative fiction writers group in her native city of Fraserville, Ontario.
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Published 2023-05-11 by Redhook |