Return (I Am Just Junco #5)
Author: J.A. Huss
Genre: New Adult Apocalyptic Science Fiction
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Buy Link: Amazon
Description:
Three years ago Junco Coot was an insane sniper. Three weeks ago
she was a prisoner being tortured in a morph tank. Three days ago she
was nothing but billions of molecules floating in a sea of darkness.
Today, Junco Coot is the key to saving or ending the world.
Three
years ago Raubtier Aves was the captain of the Avian Military. Three
weeks ago he was trying to forget Junco ever existed. Three days ago he
was given a gift of eternal salvation.
Today, he will give that gift back.
The
Angels are here, the end is coming, the Demons have been released and
Lucan has a past that ties it all together. Seven thousand years of
waiting for revenge is over and there’s just one more question that
needs to be answered?
Who will be there at the end?
Lucan—Amelia
Habitat
Tier
defied my order to kill Junco when I saw she was unstable. And then Junco
defied everyone. And they came home together. My son delivered to me the one
being in this universe who could kill me. It was like an offering. I was
stunned. Junco made me very uncomfortable. She looked me in the eye when she
spoke. She brushed off my commands like they were requests. She decapitated
Fledge members, both friend and foe alike, and she gave up her life for my son.
And
she is so, so sweet when she’s calm and still.
How
badly do I wish that I had more calm and still moments with Junco?
I
might’ve fallen in love with her sitting in my living room watching her play a
piece on the piano, so oblivious to the world she never even knew I’d entered
the room, even though I came home by the front door that night.
Then
I started telling her things, and then she started telling me things. Very,
very personal things. And I’m just not sure how I’m supposed to feel about a
young woman who was created to kill me, but stole my heart instead. I hate the
way she was raised. I hate that she was trained. I hate the fact that she’s
never had anyone keep their word and stick by her side.
All
of this bothers me. It keeps me restless when I should be relaxed, it keeps me
tense and angry, and makes me rage when I’m in private and I think about it too
long.
Amelia
stirs and brings me back to the present. I lean down into her neck and kiss her
just below her ear. She sighs in her sleep.
I
love Amelia in a different way. I don’t want to make another Amelia when this
is over. I’m not sure I have the desire to spend the time required to fashion
another companion. And not because I’m lazy, but because I feel in my heart
that Amelia is a soul and she can’t be replaced. Even if I used the same
programming, made the same body, that woman would not be my Amelia.
Because
souls are not interchangeable.
So
what choice do I have? This last task must be done.
I
kiss her lips now and she wakes enough to respond to my advances. She rolls
over and turns into me, resting her head on my chest.
How
long have I waited for this perfect woman?
How
long have I waited for my Seven?
My
fingers caress the soft pale skin of her neck and this makes her sigh. She’s
still half asleep, her breathing less slow now, her heart rate picking up as
she sheds her slumber. My palm rests against her windpipe and I kiss her again.
“I
love you,” I whisper.
I
squeeze, causing her to open her eyes for the last time and look up at me in
confusion.
I
want to let go of her, take her in my arms, and plead for her to forgive me.
But
I don’t. I crush her neck and in a few seconds it’s over. Since she is the
entity which controls this entire habitat all the lights go out and all the
environmental life support machines cease.
Her
perfect body, limp.
Her
perfect mind, gone.
I
would rather kill her myself than let my father take her as a punishment in my
cycle.
Because
that’s what love is.
Protection.
J.
A. Huss likes to write new adult books that make you think and keep you
guessing. Her favorite genre to read is space opera, but
since practically no one reads those books, she writes new adult science
fiction, paranormal romance, contemporary romance, urban fantasy,
and books about Junco (who refuses to be saddled with a label).
She has an undergraduate degree in horses, (yes, really–Thank you, Colorado State University) and a master’s degree in forensic toxicology from the University of Florida. She used to have a job driving around Colorado doing pretty much nothing but shooting the breeze with farmers, but now she just writes, runs the New Adult Addiction and Clean Teen Reads Book Blogs, and runs an online science classroom for homeschoolers.
She has an undergraduate degree in horses, (yes, really–Thank you, Colorado State University) and a master’s degree in forensic toxicology from the University of Florida. She used to have a job driving around Colorado doing pretty much nothing but shooting the breeze with farmers, but now she just writes, runs the New Adult Addiction and Clean Teen Reads Book Blogs, and runs an online science classroom for homeschoolers.
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