In September, we brought youan exclusive excerpt from C.A.
Supernovahits shelves July 26.
Read an excerpt below.
The rock dust from the explosion billowed.
Pallass gravity was so low that it could take days for it to settle back down again.
There was blood on his cheek already, but they werent near done yet.
Ivan, following him out, was unbloodied.
Keep your head, he said.
After the warmth of Matties Mirandan tenor, the sharp clarity of his Terran accent was startling.
Constance did not bother to respond.
She knew Mattie was grinning by the crinkles near his eyes.
I think the Systems got maybe half an hour before theyre trapped in here.
Then so do we, said Ivan, and put his own mask on.
The front of the slow, thick cloud of debris had almost reached them.
Lets go, said Constance, and stepped into the smoke and dusted stone.
She was used to seeing by the light of her own eyes.
She navigated her way through the cloud unerringly, stepping carefully over the olivine-flecked Palladian stone.
There was a flickering orange light ahead, pulsing through the smoke.
Constance stalked towards it carefully.
Shadowed and blurred figures moved around the fireSystem agents, working to suppress the fire.
Constances goal was the ground zero of the explosion.
The bomb she had planted had destroyed the outer wall of the System bases armory.
Constance did not want to destroy this base.
She wanted to get inside.
Ivan had taken off his mask and was wiping ash off his pale cheeks.
Mattie tapped Ivan twice on his waist as he passed, dust congealed in the blood on his face.
Ivan did not react, only scanned the hallway, sighted something, raised his gun, and fired.
Further down the hall, a camera that had not been destroyed by the blast shattered under Ivans bullet.
Excerpted from SUPERNOVA by C.A.
Higgins Copyright 2016 by C.A.
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