It's all a game until it's not.
My
name is Asher, and most people know me as a cybersecurity consultant or
in my secret life as an underground MMA fighter. It's complicated.
Right now, I'm not doing either. I'm running for my life. Human
traffickers are the worst of the worst and my girlfriend and I are
trying to take them down. We're damn good hackers and are laying every
encryption we know behind us to keep them off our trail. But their
hacker is good too, and there is a lot of gray area out there and a dark
web full of danger. This cat-and-mouse game has to end. With the help
of the special forces elite security team, I do cybersecurity for, we
might just have a chance.
A spin-off of the best-selling Savannah Heat series.
"Asher
is a great new adventure into the lives of the men and women who have
protected our favorite Savannah Heat characters. I loved this opening
book with a character we have not met yet but Mark, Seth and plenty of
other characters we know and love from other Savannah Heat books were
there. You do not have to have read any of Jessica's other books for
this book to make sense, but it will leave you with a whole lot of other
books to try!" Desrae
Start the Savannah Heat series with Jude's Sweet Fire to meet the gang. Asher may be read as a stand-alone. Don't miss the New Orleans Cajuns hockey romance series another spin-off of the Savannah Heat based in the same world. The series starts with Right in Front of Me. All three series continue the stories of all the characters in the Savannah Heat universe as well as some new special people. They can be read in series order but for the best 'read' follow the list on www.jessicamcbrayer.com for a reading order.
Excerpt:
Practice had been brutal, mostly because I was so tired. My MMA coach noticed and wrongly assumed I had been out late clubbing. Ha! I’ve never even been in a club. He knows I don’t drink. Why pour that poison in the machine. It’s why I rarely drank coffee and ate as clean as Mrs. Reid could cook. If I didn’t need so many calories and protein, I’d be a vegetarian. I wasn’t going to quit MMA anytime soon, so I needed to keep up the clean living.
I fought in underground fights mostly to stay in top shape and because I loved the adrenaline from fighting and doing it illegally. I had a good reputation and brought large crowds whenever I fought. Lots of gambling going on during the fights. That was one thing I never participated in. It was one thing to fight and get the inevitable rush, it was another to gamble. My dad gambled and drank and then he’d come home and beat on me and my mom when he lost. We’d have to scrape spare change, anything we could find, to pay the rent and get enough food or keep the electricity on. My mother worked herself into an early grave having three jobs at any given time to feed my dad’s habit and still manage to hide enough to pay the bills. I did odd jobs for neighbors.
Then I built my first
computer. I found it on the curb, someone had put in the trash. I was always
taking things apart to understand what made them work. Something about the computer
intrigued me. I found myself keeping some of the money from my odd jobs to buy
parts. My mom would slip me a little when she could. I built one hell of a
machine when I was done. Taught myself how to hack by the time I was ten. Then
neighbors started coming to me with their computer problems. I went as far as I
could and knew I needed more information. I was able to get a scholarship for
college and risked a lot on a game design degree. I was smart enough to double
major in computer science. Game design wasn’t considered a steady form of
employment then. Most people just scoffed at it. If they only knew how much
money I have in the bank they’d realize how lucrative it could be.
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