Raven Blackheart - Quick-witted, hotheaded and always ready to act, you are the star of the show. You have fooled many with your pretty face, but that's a plus for you...plenty enough time to catch your opponent off guard!
Today, corporations are the new aristocracy. A laundry list of side effects accompanies almost every new drug introduced on the market. What if these side effects changed us?
Imagine waking up in a futuristic world were corporations are the new aristocracy. The world has been divided into 2 hemispheres and 2 races: Humans and quick tough skinned vampire-like creatures that are children of the side effects of 20th century pharmaceutical experiments...Dracins.
Imagine dying as a human…and waking up as something else.
This is the life of Raven Blackheart, a formerly bored college student turned agent for the Tech Corporation, the largest corporate entity in the Western Hemisphere. Vice President Tyler Deamond, directs Raven as a go between and the last hope for the unification of Humans and Dracins. As deaths start occurring within the corporation headquarters, Raven notices someone is working their way up the food chain. Alliances are questioned as Deamond’s intentions aren’t quite as noble as they seem. A figure reemerges from Raven’s past who may have all the answers to the disappearance of her father...
Cimmerian City is a futuristic sci-fi thriller where government has become big business, pharmaceuticals carry a veil of ghastly side effects and a third world war is brewing between the two races.
Relax...It’s just the 21st century.
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"Love vampire fiction threaded with sci-fi? Pick up a copy of Cimmerian City, sit back, and enjoy the wild ride.
I give this novel four zinnias. It’s a definite keeper!"
-Zinnia Hope
www.zinniahope.com
Author of 'Conspiracy of Angels'
& 'The Red Storm'
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"Cimmerian City shows us a frightening outcome to current fears of crises on every front. From global warming and rampant pollution, to race wars and violence, from global control of the world's economy by a handful of corporations, to controversial medical experimentation for profits for a drug-dependent society. Here is the extreme vision that Cimmerian City give us of the haves and the have-nots. The few people who can afford to protect themselves from this severally damaged world and those who are subject to the uncertainty of daily life."
-Kir Royal of 'Cocktail Reviews'
http://cocktailreviews.wordpress.com/2007/04/28/cimmerian-city-mundania-press-llc
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"Cimmerian City by Rae Lindley is the type of book that in this reviewer's wide experience, is all too rare: an utterly unstoppable tale which latches on to the reader from the first sentences, then sets a death-defying pace through realms known and unknown, flying the reader through plot twists and turns, character delineations, and theme. Highly recommended is this book, because I literally could not put it aside until completed; and immediately accorded it an important spot on my Keeper Shelf!"
-Annie Haws of 'Wild Child Publishing' http://www.wildchildpublishing.com/content/view/383/101
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"This is one story that has a high impact punch, a great plot that is fast paced and so intriguing that you cannot put this one down. Within the covers of this book you will discover a variety of crisis which is in the minds of everyone including global warming, war, violence, pollution, medical, pharmaceuticals and economical issues.
Cimmerian City is an intense read with many layers and issues to uncover throughout this story. I look forward to her future releases in this trilogy. This is another highly recommended read and a definite 5 stars."
-Terry South of Quality Book Reviewshttp://qualitybookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/05/01/cimmerian-city
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"The main character, Raven, describes a dark world that
would give most folks nightmares. This is a very scary place, perhaps I just want it to be a work of Fantasy."
-Buzzy
Buzzelle.com
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“Ms. Lindley builds an intriguing world and then births a cast that breathes life into a suspenseful plot. This story’s heroine is stout and hardy as Raven battles Dracin and human alike, while searching for the elusive truth about Tech Corporation and her role in its success. Tyler
Deamond is a scoundrel personified as he discards his earliest engineered people as failures, because they will not blindly comply with his plans. Russell Li remains quite a mystery throughout this story though clearly Raven’s romantic distraction as they both persevere in
hindering Tech Corp’s supremacy. Cimmerian City is definitely not a light read, but one that will keep a reader entertained for several hours.”
- A Dedicated Reader,
Pamela Jenewein of Romance At Heart Magazine http://romanceatheart.com/review/cimmeriancity.html
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--It’s always a pleasure to run across (well, not literally, of course), another author. -- This, just a short note, from the olde vampyre himself, in thanks for welcoming FAMILY DRAQUAL into your life. --Hugs (if you dare get that close). –Vlad
