Rook: Allie's War, Book One [NOOK Book]

Overview

Twenty-eight-year-old San Francisco native, Allie Taylor, at least thought she was human. Against a gritty and original backdrop of a modern-day Earth populated by a second race of beings, Allie is forced to deal with the fact that she's a member of an enslaved yet deeply powerful race, who believe her to be their most venerated leader, come to end the reign of humanity. With her guide, Revik, a mysterious and deadly seer who acts as her bodyguard and teacher, Allie is forced to come to grips with who she really is, or end up a slave like the rest of her kind...or worse, betray the very people she always thought of as her own.

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Praise for Rook: Allie's War, Book One

“…Andrijeski has created a fascinating world and an action-packed story; a version of the battle of good versus evil, and also attempts to tackle large concepts that people face daily…”

Diana Reed
Dreamtime Books

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"Be forewarned, once you get started, you will be hooked on the series!”

Coral Russell
Alchemy of Scrawl Indie Reviews

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“Rook starts out strong, pulls you into a vortex, and leaves your head spinning! While this paperback is 396 pages, I finished it in 24 hours, hardly wanting to put it down. There are so many levels to this story: Eastern religion and mythology, mind numbing technology, good versus evil, alternate existence, and even a powerful love story.”

"[S]uch strong chemistry between Allie and her guide, Revik, that it takes your breath away."

Charlene Mabie-Gable
Literary R&R

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“The storyline is very original, as in the entire concept of the novel, and it’s filled with more backstabbing betrayal, twist and turns than I even thought possible…”

"...If you’re tired of reading fantasy novels with the same old concept over and over again, then you will definitely find Rook innovating, remarkable and highly entertaining. And even if you’re happy with the way most contemporary fantasy novels work nowadays, then I think you’ll still find Rook to be a very entertaining novel in the genre, and one of the most well-written ones. Don’t hesitate to read this book: it will definitely NOT disappoint you.”

Majanka Verstraete
I <3 Reading Book Reviews

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Back Cover Copy:

Twenty-eight-year-old San Francisco native, Allie Taylor, knew she had issues…but she at least thought she was human. In her version of modern day Earth, a second race of human-like beings called seers were discovered in Asia in the early 1900s. Since then, they have fought in two world wars and live alongside humans as second-class citizens. In Allie’s city, they exist mostly in a form of slavery whereby their powers are contracted out to human “patrons,” or owners, sometimes for the whole of their lives. Under those contracts, seers work as prostitutes, corporate spies, military intelligence-gatherers, curiosities and assassins.

So when Allie meets her first, real, flesh-and-blood seer, she's not exactly thrilled when he tells her that she's a seer like him.

Forced to adjust to being a member of a race she's always considered dangerous, she discovers that she was hidden among humans because seers believe her to be a being they call "The Bridge." According to that myth, her presence on Earth signals the beginning of the end of the human race.

Worse, no matter what she does, everything that happens after that only seems to prove them right.