Nica of Los Angeles

Mystery & Suspense, Women Sleuths, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction
Cover of the book Nica of Los Angeles by Sue Perry, Sue Perry
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Sue Perry ISBN: 9781311415868
Publisher: Sue Perry Publication: September 4, 2014
Imprint: Smashwords Edition Language: English
Author: Sue Perry
ISBN: 9781311415868
Publisher: Sue Perry
Publication: September 4, 2014
Imprint: Smashwords Edition
Language: English

Nica Sheridan Taggart Ambrose Taggart Ickovic (S.T.A.T.Ic.) craves action and change, which leaves her life as stable as old dynamite. She appoints herself a private detective and gets a mysterious case that leads her into adventures beyond imagining - and she's got a crazy imagination.

She enters a world of multiple dimensions called Frames, where buildings and lawn chairs can be sentient, a stray cat has great powers, books can be killers, and clouds can be spies. On the surface, Nica tackles missing person cases, while in the larger reality of the Frames she is swept into an escalating battle with stakes that could not be higher.

In this first book of the FRAMES quartet, a band of allies that includes structures, landforms, and creatures sets out to stop Warty Sebaceous Cysts, a repulsive trio. The Cysts casually commit genocide to free their imprisoned leader, Maelstrom, who would bring cruelty and horror to all the Frames. There is danger everywhere in the Frames, but also a mind-boggling expansion of reality. Nica feels challenged, engrossed, and strangely at home. As she sees it, she was born to travel the Frames.

=== (Excerpt follows) ===
I became aware that the air had changed. My office smelled like a forest just after a flash flood, when everything is power-washed and tree trunks are smeared with riverbed mud. Fresh and wild.

It took much strength to gently lower that window, but the stranger's arms - all sinew and muscle - showed no strain. I took a step back to get a fuller look and to get farther away. He was a wolf. I don't mean a predatory flirt, I mean he was long and lean and fast and dangerous: coarse black hair, ice-gray eyes and smile full of teeth, supreme confidence backed with survival instinct.

"Please sit down," I suggested or pleaded as I retreated behind my desk. As he complied, muscles flexed inside his garments, a loose cotton tunic and drawstring pants that were as gray as February.

She sat down, too. My other visitor was a princess: not as in daddy's spoiled girl, as in future queen of the fairies. She was as ethereal as he was earthy, exotic but I couldn't place the ethnic background. Cornsilk hair, slanted eyes like unpolished silver, her skin like the penny you've always kept in your pocket for luck. Her tunic was white as a desert sunrise. "We are in need of your detective arts," she said.

"That tends to be why people come to this office." The joke was stillborn. "I'm good with accents but I can't place yours. Where are you from?"

"Knowledge of our ancestry provides no value. We have need of your assistance," he said, in a voice that never needed help from anybody.

"The fate of the free worlds is at stake," she added, in a voice like the first spring breeze on snow.

"Oh-kay." Note to self, cancel ad in NUTJOB QUARTERLY.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

Nica Sheridan Taggart Ambrose Taggart Ickovic (S.T.A.T.Ic.) craves action and change, which leaves her life as stable as old dynamite. She appoints herself a private detective and gets a mysterious case that leads her into adventures beyond imagining - and she's got a crazy imagination.

She enters a world of multiple dimensions called Frames, where buildings and lawn chairs can be sentient, a stray cat has great powers, books can be killers, and clouds can be spies. On the surface, Nica tackles missing person cases, while in the larger reality of the Frames she is swept into an escalating battle with stakes that could not be higher.

In this first book of the FRAMES quartet, a band of allies that includes structures, landforms, and creatures sets out to stop Warty Sebaceous Cysts, a repulsive trio. The Cysts casually commit genocide to free their imprisoned leader, Maelstrom, who would bring cruelty and horror to all the Frames. There is danger everywhere in the Frames, but also a mind-boggling expansion of reality. Nica feels challenged, engrossed, and strangely at home. As she sees it, she was born to travel the Frames.

=== (Excerpt follows) ===
I became aware that the air had changed. My office smelled like a forest just after a flash flood, when everything is power-washed and tree trunks are smeared with riverbed mud. Fresh and wild.

It took much strength to gently lower that window, but the stranger's arms - all sinew and muscle - showed no strain. I took a step back to get a fuller look and to get farther away. He was a wolf. I don't mean a predatory flirt, I mean he was long and lean and fast and dangerous: coarse black hair, ice-gray eyes and smile full of teeth, supreme confidence backed with survival instinct.

"Please sit down," I suggested or pleaded as I retreated behind my desk. As he complied, muscles flexed inside his garments, a loose cotton tunic and drawstring pants that were as gray as February.

She sat down, too. My other visitor was a princess: not as in daddy's spoiled girl, as in future queen of the fairies. She was as ethereal as he was earthy, exotic but I couldn't place the ethnic background. Cornsilk hair, slanted eyes like unpolished silver, her skin like the penny you've always kept in your pocket for luck. Her tunic was white as a desert sunrise. "We are in need of your detective arts," she said.

"That tends to be why people come to this office." The joke was stillborn. "I'm good with accents but I can't place yours. Where are you from?"

"Knowledge of our ancestry provides no value. We have need of your assistance," he said, in a voice that never needed help from anybody.

"The fate of the free worlds is at stake," she added, in a voice like the first spring breeze on snow.

"Oh-kay." Note to self, cancel ad in NUTJOB QUARTERLY.

More books from Science Fiction

Cover of the book Claimed by the Bears (Bear Shifter MFM Menage Romance) by Sue Perry
Cover of the book Marlbury Mysteries: Winter Unveils Complete by Sue Perry
Cover of the book Visions of a Self-Named Prophet or the Legend of Exterminator 13 by Sue Perry
Cover of the book Irbis by Sue Perry
Cover of the book Les 92 résolutions de l’Assemblée législative du Bas-Canada by Sue Perry
Cover of the book The Last Notebook of Leonardo by Sue Perry
Cover of the book My Earliest Memory by Sue Perry
Cover of the book Resistance by Sue Perry
Cover of the book Liavek 7: Spells of Binding by Sue Perry
Cover of the book Meddlers In Time by Sue Perry
Cover of the book Full Circle by Sue Perry
Cover of the book Best Horror of the Year by Sue Perry
Cover of the book Step on the Sun by Sue Perry
Cover of the book How the Glitch Saved Christmas by Sue Perry
Cover of the book The S1 Voyager 2017 by Sue Perry
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy