Today I am honoured to be joining the blog tour and sharing an extract from Deception by R. M. Mulder. Thanks to Zoe at https://zooloosbookdiary.co.uk/zooloos-blog-tours for organising this tour.
Synopsis
Brittany Parker is a Police Officer for a precinct that has adopted CyberBolt’s implant technology to enhance abilities, which also grants her a unique gaming experience. But after getting wrapped up in matters of National Security, she is ordered to undergo a dangerous procedure rumored to cause memory loss and dementia. After the excruciatingly painful experience, she awakens inside the Augmented Reality MMORPG game CONQUEST to face a terrifying threat unlike anything she has ever encountered before.
A rapture-like apocalyptic event transports players through a portal to an alien planet inhabited by the Leviathan, a loathsome creature whose insatiable hunger until now has been fed by that world’s few remaining souls. The terrain of CONQUEST is the same, however the game parameters have changed drastically.
Now in a First-Person-Shooter (FPS) setting, Brittany comes head to head with many foes in battles of wits and survival with her limited ammunition. Little does she know however, that the more she levels up in the game, the more she carries out the sinister work of the Leviathan.
Will Brittany see the error of her ways before she pays the ultimate price?
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Extract from Deception
It was nearing midnight when Doug threw the brick through the grocery store window. Under normal circumstances, the police would have been alerted to the break-in, but the surrounding chaos was sufficient to keep the few remaining police on their toes.
The screams and cries echoing from the streets were loud enough to drown out the screeching alarm. Doug grabbed a shopping cart and ran toward the paper goods isle. He nearly toppled the display with the swoop of an arm as he cleaned the shelf of all its boxes of aluminum foil. Wasting no time, he ripped open one of the boxes and began frantically wrapping the top of his head with an entire roll. When that box was depleted, he grabbed another and quickly repeated the process.
In his wildest dreams, he couldn’t fathom the events that had brought him to this moment. Trying to break into the Chicago South Precinct hours ago was a fool’s errand. He had tried to hack into the building’s security pad at one of the back entrances, but he triggered their alarm by mistake and was quickly apprehended. It was while they were attempting to drag him toward a jail cell when the lightning attacked. Bulletproof windows shattered and concrete walls crumbled as the blue bolts of lightning incinerated random victims upon contact. Somehow Doug had survived, and barely made it out of the building. Survival mode had kicked in, and finding Brittany was no longer a priority.
With a grunt, he heaved the full shopping cart out the broken display window. Eerie lightning bolts lit up the night sky as he raced across the parking lot. Without any warning, the wheels of the cart locked when he reached the perimeter, causing the cart to topple over. Landing awkwardly on the pavement, he made a quick decision to pull the upside-down cart on top of himself. Now crouching in a fetal position in the cramped space, he watched as several drunkards staggered out of the tavern across the street.
“Go back inside!” he yelled at them, but it was no use.
The five men staggered along with nearly-empty bottles of beer, pointing up at the light show with enthusiasm. In that moment, a bolt of lightning erupted from the sky and struck one of the five. In the blink of an eye, the drunkard disappeared, leaving behind a large patch of charred pavement. Instead of running and screaming like everyone else, the four remaining were so drunk that they busted up laughing.
“Get down!” Doug called out again.
The men glanced his way just in time to get enveloped by sheets of lightning. Clamping his eyes shut to force out the images of charred pavement, Doug began humming the music-box-like hymn of Conquest to himself, rocking his body back and forth.
Author Bio – R. M. Mulder
Most of his friends from High School still don’t even know his first name. Known only as either “Mulder” or “Agent”, there was an unforgettable moment when a girl he was dating expressed her confusion when a friend approached him and called him “Richard”. The ongoing joke was “Hey Mulder, where’s Scully?” Ironically he later married a redhead…
R.M. Mulder began querying agents for his Conquest Saga back in January 2016. He then received some inspirational feedback from one of the editors involved in a query contest that had stated in part, “Honestly? Everything about this screams ‘Blockbuster self-pub!!’ Writing is sharp and commercial. Author has a plan. Go be Hugh Howey. I don’t think querying is gonna go your way, and you’ve got big vision.” Mulder ran with this inspiration, and has since become an Amazon Bestselling Author.
He also has a Kickstarter campaign for Book 3 – Revelation – https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rmmulder/revelation-gamelit
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Twitter : https://twitter.com/R_M_Mulder
Website : http://www.RMMulder.com
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