Author J.A. Huss

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Please help me welcome Author J.A. Huss to my blog today!

AUTHOR Bio:

J.A. Huss writes new adult speculative fiction, contemporary romances, and an entire line of science non-fiction textbooks that cater to home learners. She also runs the New Adult Addiction and Clean Teen Reads book Blogs. She has an undergraduate degree in equine science and a graduate degree in forensic toxicology. She adores everything science and considers herself a major geek! Her first series is called I Am Just Junco.

Range - I Am Not Junco - Book Four

by J.A. Huss

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BLURB:

Two years have passed since Inanna stole Junco away from Lucan. Two years of unimaginable pain.  Two years of isolation, mutilation and torture. Two years of fear and loneliness in a morph tank. And that’s not something you just get over, even if you are psycho-assassin, Junco Coot.

Now Junco has to learn to live with the consequences.  Her Siblings are suspicious and angry, half her team is dead, Tier is wreaking death and destruction, Lucan is holding his secrets close, and she is spiraling out of control.

There is only one partnership that matters anymore – only one person she will trust and take direction from – and only one way out of the Hell she’s been sentenced to.

Junco is tired fighting and death. She’s had enough and this time she means to end it – once and for all.

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EXCERPTS:

Excerpt One:

Selia comes out of the bathroom, her eyes darked up, her lips glowing and pink, and her golden hair flowing down her back in large bouncy ringlets.

She’s beautiful.

And I’m jealous of how easy she fits into her own skin, at how she can make small talk with strangers - even the guards in the elevator and downstairs in the lobby. And most of all, at how her face always seems to be smiling.

No wonder Ashur fell in love with her while I was away being morphed. She looks happy.

I have a permanent frown, I’m afraid to talk to anyone except Gid and Sel, and I feel like my brain has been forced inside a body I’ve never met before. Even when I came out of the tank with wings back on Amelia I never felt this awkward about myself. My replaced fingers and missing scars just make it worse. When a nightdog eats two of your fingers and a psycho slices a SEAR knife down your jawline, you’re supposed to have to live with the consequences of those things forever.

And when you cut yourself in half to save the man you love, there should be evidence of that.

But my scars have all been erased. Every bite from the mutants in the Stag, every prairie lion claw mark, every battle wound I’ve ever had inflicted on me is gone. Even the one I inflicted on myself.

Just gone.

On the outside anyway.

Excerpt Two:

Letting HOUSE choose our clothes from the sphere was a mistake waiting to happen, but I turned on the screen and saw myself leaving the suborbital station in Dallas wearing Selia’s bustier and my jeans.

So.

A disguise was in order.

I just never thought she’d choose a sundress. With girly flowers in shades of pink and tangerine. Not orange, HOUSE corrected me. Tangerine.

And we match because she made herself an outfit just like it.  If it wasn’t so freaking funny to look at the two of us standing in the mirror, I’d cry.

She got me a purse too, a big one like that Cora chick was hauling around with her on Sargassum. And this is lime green.

“Ya know,” I turn to look down at her standing next to me. Her smile is big and I almost forgive her. “This whole let’s-stick-out-to-blend-in disguise never works. I mean, you do understand that, right? I’m the freaking master of this stealth crap and I’m telling you, the lime green bag will not hide us in plain sight.”

She shrugs and messes with her hair, pushing it off to the side, then tilts her head to look at herself.

“Who the hell are you?”

This pulls her back to me. “HOUSE. I’m HOUSE.”

“Well, you’re not acting like HOUSE. You’re acting like a child.”

She stuffs a small straw hat on her head. “I am a child.” Her eyes never even bother to look away from the mirror.

“You,” I pause for emphasis, “are an AI. Living inside me. You’re not a child.”

She shrugs and I grab my lime green bag of weapons and we head out the door.

Excerpt Three:

I pull my com out of my back pocket and fiddle with it until my dad’s face appears on screen.  I tap him and the connection starts. It buzzes a few times and then he’s there.

“Hi, Snowbird.”

I smile so big it makes my cheeks stretch. “Hi, Dad.”

“You OK?”

I sigh. “Yeah, I’m OK. Just tired. How about you? Where are you?”

“Polar Friendlies.”

“Is everyone there?”

“Yes, everyone is here now.  Your mom’s here too.”

“Oh,” is all I have to say to that.  I’m not interested in her.

“Tier called a few hours ago, he left a message.  Said you’d be calling.”

“Did he now?” Must be nice to see the future. That’s like the Powerball of superpowers.  “Was he mad?”

“No, should he have been?”

“Ummmm…no. I guess not.”

“You just call to say hi? Or do you need help?”

“Dad,” I begin. “Do you think Lucan is the Devil?”

“Yes.”

Oh, crap!  That was not the answer I was looking for. “Do you think he’s evil?”

“Do you think I’m evil, Junco?”

Well, sorta, I want to say.  I mean, he did nuke Peak City and Council 3.

“You don’t have to answer that. It was rhetorical. I’m just saying that everyone has the potential, right?”

“Do you think I’m evil?”

I hear the long draw of breath before he speaks and I know he’s gonna lie. “Junco, evil is not as black and white as you were taught. Evil isn’t an action, Snowbird. It’s an intention.”

I’m not so sure of this, that road to hell is paved with stuff that sounds very similar.

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Website: http://www.iamjustjunco.com/

Author Blog: http://jahuss.com/

Book Blog: http://newadultaddiction.blogspot.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IAmJustJunco

Twitter: https://twitter.com/JAHuss

Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6446815.J_A_Huss

CLUTCH – Book One: http://www.amazon.com/CLUTCH-Am-Just-Junco-ebook/dp/B009BIOJTU/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1362700731&sr=8-2&keywords=clutch+junco

Goodreads for CLUTCH: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15763262-clutch

Book trailer for CLUTCH: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iz0PWDGoTJY

FLEDGE – Book Two: http://www.amazon.com/FLEDGE-Just-Junco-Dot-ebook/dp/B009D0U6LQ

Goodreads for FLEDGE: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15764009-fledge

Book trailer for FLEDGE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_LYS0N1OAY

FLIGHT  – Book Three: http://www.amazon.com/FLIGHT-Just-Junco-Dot-ebook/dp/B009E9MMWM

Goodreads for FLIGHT:  http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15781131-flight

Book trailer for FLIGHT:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_-uY4NnamM

Please thank J.A. for joining us today! Please visit her websites and buy a book.

Keep Writing!

Jodie Pierce