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  THE ALLIE’S WAR SERIES is a dark, unique and gritty urban fantasy romance involving a young woman grappling with her role in bringing about the end of one world and the start of a new one. Follow Allie Taylor and her antihero partner in crime, Dehgoies Revik, as they fight terrifying enemies and one another in a passionate story spanning centuries, and filled unpredictable twists.

  THE ALIEN APOCALYPSE SERIES is a dystopian new adult romance about a tough girl named Jet Tetsuo who grew up on Earth following an alien invasion. Forced into living among her conquerers, she has to navigate a treacherous world full of enemies who pose as friends, even as she becomes their most famous fighter in the Rings, a modern day version of the coliseum.

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  SEATTLE

  Cold green shimmered around me, clouds of sand and rising bubbles.

  My mind flashed to Monterey Bay Aquarium as a kid, seeing the jellyfish on the other side of the glass as they opened, closed, opened, closed...but this time, glass and metal trapped me inside the tank and freezing cold water, instead of the other way around.

  Still feeling dazed and only half-there, I grappled with the car door until fingers gripped my arm, causing me to turn. Once I did, I saw Revik through the green water, eyes open, his long fingers seemingly drained of blood. The knuckles of his other hand bled in red clouds and the window frame behind him bled upwards into the water from an odd-shaped smear, like watching a film happen in reverse.

  No Barrier, he sent, so softly I barely heard him.

  My mind, everything about me, remained oddly calm.

  I squeezed his arm to let him know I understood.

  I’ve always been able to see well in water.

  Revik hit the locking mechanism of his seat belt clumsily, rising to thump up against the roof of the car as the belt slid off his chest. It was only then that I realized the car was still sinking. Blood swirled around us from his his head and hand. He pedaled his arms to reach me, grabbing for the strap of my own seatbelt, fumbling with the clasp and hitting the button to unlock it from around my body...which still hadn’t occurred to me for some reason.

  He got it undone, then held me to keep me from rising too fast.

  My body hurt...badly enough to bring the first real flickers of fear.

  My limbs only half-cooperated as I jerkingly swam for the open driver’s side window at the prompting of his hands. I’d always been able to hold my breath under water for a long time, too. Jon would time me at the community pool when we were kids, taking bets...but now I was starting to worry about air. I had no idea how far down we were.

  I pedaled through bubbles like a crippled dog, aiming my body at the window.

  Shards of glass nicked my cheeks and arms...then grated on my leg until I jerked away from the edges of the window frame, emitting a garbled sound as I kicked my way through.

  Then I was on the other side, in open water.

  I watched the car roof and hood as the GTX sank below me.

  Revik swam past me then and I felt his fingers tug my arm, pulling on me to follow.

  Looking up, I glimpsed rays and sparkles of light through chunks of green plant matter, remembered anti-drowning training and followed the bubbles. The tugging on my arm grew less once I was swimming alongside him...until I saw clouds and patches of blue sky through a window of clear water. Then he pulled me roughly sideways, guiding me under the surface before I could reach the open air.

  By the time he let me rise, I was panicking for real, fighting to pry off his fingers, and the sunlight was gone.

  He didn’t let go until we breached the surface together, gasping.

  Once I’d filled my lungs with air, choking out the water I’d inhaled, I looked up. We were under the bridge. Land lay a few hundred meters behind where I watched Revik tread water. I glanced at it, saw mostly greenery and rocks, then looked back at Revik himself, watching him gasp to regain his own breath. Massive cement pillars stood to either side of us, and the thundering sound of cars on the bridge overhead echoed over the water.

  The sound touched a memory in me.

  Something about it brought a wave of fear, and I shivered.

  I was still staring up at the underside of the overpass, when Revik’s fingers circled my arm. I felt an apology there, but also fear, enough to take my breath. He looked different with his hair slicked back, and for an instant, I could only stare at his face. I almost didn’t recognize him with how pale he was, exaggerated by the wet hair and the blood on the side of his head.

  Only his eyes and mouth looked the same.

  “Don’t go into the Barrier.” He was having more trouble than me regaining his breath, and I watched him struggle to speak. “Not even a little, Allie. If they find us––”

  “It’s okay,” I told him.

  He shook his head. “No. It’s not. Only talk to me like this. Promise me...”

  I stared at his face, worried. He didn’t look good.

  “Can you swim?” I said.

  He looked back over his shoulder, towards shore, still holding my arm, only now it felt like he was using me as a flotation device. I felt him hesitate, as if thinking about my question.

  When I started swimming towards land, though, he followed.

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  ADDITIONAL BOOKS IN THE SERIES

  Rook: Allie’s War Episodes 1-4

  Shield: Allie’s War Episodes 5-8

  Sword: Allie’s War Episodes 9-12

  Shadow: Allie’s War Episodes 13-17

  Knight: Allie's War Episodes 18-23

  War: Allie’s War Episodes 24-27

  Bridge: Allie’s War Episodes 28-31

  PREQUEL NOVELS

  New York: Allie's War Early Years

  Revik: Allie’s War Early Years

  Terian: Allie’s War Early Years

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  JC Andrijeski has published novels, novellas, serials, graphic novels and short stories, including new adult urban fantasy series, Allie’s War, the new adult dystopian series, Alien Apocalypse, and the Gate Shifter series, about a shape-shifting alien and a tough-girl PI from Seattle. She also writes crime fiction and some literary, although her first love will always be of the supernatural, especially when it involves kick-ass superpowers and people fighting for the light and against their own inner demons.

  JC travels extensively and has lived abroad in Europe, Australia and Asia, but currently lives and works full time as a writer in Portland, OR.

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  An Urban Fantasy

  Episode 1

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