Company Assassin by Claudia Blood

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Welcome to It's Raining Books. What are your favorite TV shows?

This is where I admit that I don't have any streaming services. I have DVDs of Big Bang Theory, Firefly, and Supernatural that I still watch.

What is your favorite meal?

I really love a good cheesy wheezy with fries or a slice of new york style pizza.

If you were to write a series of novels, what would it be about?

I'm in the middle of releasing a Trilogy. The first book came out on January 15th. The next book went live on February 15. The series tagline is: Time is coming apart at the seams.

The first book is Company Assassin. An ex-assassin, demons, and obsessed company CEO. Can an orphan survive finding the truth of his past?

I have two other open series waiting in the wings.

Is there a writer you idolize? If so who?

If we are talking old school growing up authors. Alan Dean Foster, Ann McCaffrey, Mercedes Lackey...okay there are many more. They all had worlds, situations, and characters that I loved to gobble up.

I have an author crush on Penny Reid. I love her characters. I wish I knit so I could be invited to their knitting nights. They have great conversations.

How did you come up for the title of this book?

The Relic in the trilogy name was an element from a dream about the second book.

The scene opened with a team hacking through the jungle and uncovering this ancient ruin. They were desperately looking for Relics. (whatever that was)

Then inside was an alien machine. Rocks and dust fell down on them as they moved into the room. They put a silver pocket watch on a platform and turned the machine on.

Lights and electricity coalesced on a platform and the whole structure shook. But they stayed inside because they were desperate for one of these Relics.

What appeared on the platform? An '80's aerobic instructor who had been pulled forward in time. She was even wearing leg warmers!

It’s Duff Roman’s eighteenth birthday, but no one is lighting candles.

Turning eighteen in the orphanage on Kalecca means starvation for those who aren’t hired into a Family. Outside the Family compounds lies the jungle. And in the jungle lies death. And Relics—the only real currency on Planet Kalecca.

The orphans are Duff’s family, and he’s sacrificed everything to keep the orphanage running, even his chance to move on. Now, at eighteen, he has no choice but to leave. Without him to bring in extra money, the orphans will starve under the Company’s control. Duff's only chance to save them is to find a spot on an independent crew and hopefully find a Relic to sell.

A seemingly chance encounter with Z, leader of the most feared independent crew, offers Duff his opportunity to score a Relic. And offers Z a chance to relieve the guilt he feels over his past.

But a company assassin has plans to lay waste to Duff's future, and the orphanage as well.

Read an Excerpt

Duff fought the memory that came with the intensifying baked bread and fish smell. The jungle smell combined with it made the smell different from the orphanage.

He made himself follow Z, but his mind slipped back ten years earlier. To another place corrupted by this smell.

It could be just over the next rise that he’d find a hole just like the one from that night. That night he’d hidden while he waited for his mom. When they’d played this game before, she always found him. She’d throw in a leaf bag with his favorite treat. He’d pretend he was one of the animals she worked with. He’d crawl forward, testing the air and would gobble the treat.

She’d toss another and another until he was lured to her lap. She’d smile down at him and hug him tight. “My little jungle monkey.”

About the Author: Claudia Blood’s early introduction to Dungeons and Dragons, combined with her training as a scientist and a side trip into the world of IT set her up to become an award-winning author of Science Fiction and Fantasy.

For her latest release, visit her at www.ClaudiaBlood.com

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