Emerald City - Cole, Astrid
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After nearly suffering defeat at the hands of her sister, Sage Arpine does all in her power to return to a normal life. Her fairy-tale dreams of marrying a prince and living at the palace don't quite turn out, but she can't complain now that she's found true love, reunited with her nieces, and returned to her pizzeria in Diamond City. At least, that's what she thinks. With the Lolligo spying on humans and using women for reproduction experiments, Sage knows she isn't safe no matter where she turns. As try as she might to ignore the calls to battle, she doesn't have a choice when she realizes…mehr

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After nearly suffering defeat at the hands of her sister, Sage Arpine does all in her power to return to a normal life. Her fairy-tale dreams of marrying a prince and living at the palace don't quite turn out, but she can't complain now that she's found true love, reunited with her nieces, and returned to her pizzeria in Diamond City. At least, that's what she thinks. With the Lolligo spying on humans and using women for reproduction experiments, Sage knows she isn't safe no matter where she turns. As try as she might to ignore the calls to battle, she doesn't have a choice when she realizes the new Diamond City Allseers are plotting to capture her, too. As the successful offspring of a Lolligo and human, Sage's blood has the potential to turn others into enhanced warriors, and what growing city wouldn't want an opportunity to empower their army? Sage's hopes of running her pizzeria and marrying her fiancé are dashed when she's betrayed-yet again-by the very city she united in the past. Forced to flee once more, Sage finds herself in the Outskirts, where she battles more than just Lolligo and their laser guns-she discovers Emerald City and their disturbing, dark secrets. Sage is not the only hybrid out there. Like the Lolligo, Emerald City has been experimenting with genetics and they want all their test subjects back. If Sage wants any semblance of that fairy-tale dream she's after, she has to confront the strongest army of enhanced beings she's ever faced in her life. Stopping them would be so much easier if she didn't have a family to protect. Sage could run and hide forever...but it's never been in her nature to do that. With people's lives at stake, she'll have to fight, even with the odds stacked heavily against her. Really stacked. Diamond City and the Lolligo haven't given up on her, either. Sage should have stuck to pizza.
Autorenporträt
Astrid Cole developed her love for writing in her senior year in high school. It all started when she and a friend collaborated on a vampire novel, since Twilight was the hot movie in 2009. Although that first novel was just for fun, Astrid never stopped writing even when she started Miami-Dade College in 2009. Amidst her goal to get into medical school, she came up with tons of science fiction thrillers that she'd write for fun when she wasn't studying. A few years later, she realized that medical school wasn't for her and that it was time to start honing her craft as a writer. At Florida International University, she switched to an English major. There, she got to read literatures from a variety of time periods and her favorite poet was Edmund Spencer (way better than Shakespeare). She thought of publishing her first novel in 2012, but quickly realized she wasn't ready and kept writing stories on the side.In 2013, she started getting into fitness and competed in her first (and only) bodybuilding show just two years later. Winning third place qualified her for states, but she loved eating too much to compete again. Instead, she focused on running, completing a half-marathon in 2017, and then powerlifting, which she does for fun. After she got her master's in English Literature in 2021, she started reading more fantasy and science fiction and tried her hand at publishing once more. Since then, she's been working on the Diamond City series and plans to revisit earlier novels for publication.