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    The Clandestine Conflict, Part I: Heroes Square
    The Clandestine Conflict, Part I: Heroes Square
    The Clandestine Conflict, Part I: Heroes Square
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    The Clandestine Conflict, Part I: Heroes Square

    By Tamsin Silver

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    New York City, 2144

    The sky is dark and the creatures of the Clandestine World, comprised of vampires, werewolves, witches and shape shifters, are known to all. In fact, they are now in charge of the planet. Which the humans are beginning to rebel against.

    Maya Petrovskii, the only granddaughter of the royal werewolf family, has chosen to avoid her royal privilege and join The Squad, the military of the Clandestine People.

    She and her friends must work under the radar to keep the Clandestine World from going to war with the humans, who want her kind in cages.

    Not all of the Clandestine are honest.
    Not all of the humans are who they seem.

    Can Maya help keep the peace before more people die?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTamsin Silver
    Release dateJun 29, 2012
    ISBN9781476057095
    The Clandestine Conflict, Part I: Heroes Square
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    Tamsin Silver

    Tamsin L. Silver is a New York City based author who works in multiple creative platforms. Other than her two YA Urban Fantasy Series (Windfire and Mark of the Necromancer) she is the creator/writer for the web series, Skye of the Damned, produced by VampireFreaks.com and Small Town Pictures, and a writer for www.MagicalWords.net (a blog for fantasy writers by published fantasy writers).Each year she sells her books and speaks about writing, acting/directing, and producing on panels at conventions like Con*Carolinas (Charlotte, NC) and Dragon*Con (Atlanta, GA). She also can sometimes be found just selling her books at other conventions along the East Coast (specifically the NY area). All of her e-books and short stories in e-format can be found here on Smashwords, as well as on Amazon, iBooks, and Barnes and Noble while print copies are exclusively through Amazon or from meeting Tamsin herself at any convention she attends.While on the writing path, Tamsin graduated from Winthrop University with a BA in Theatre and a Secondary Education, as well as a minor in Creative Writing and Shakespeare. She has taught both middle school and high school drama, run two award winning theater companies, and has a rewarding day job working for a non-profit hospital in the city. She loves dogs, anything flavored orange, and has never met a mac-n-cheese she didn't love.For more about Tamsin you can visit her website (www.tamsinsilver.com) where there are links to all of her books, projects, blog writings, and where you can see the first three episodes of Skye of the Damned for free in SD. The full HD versions of Episodes 1-6 can be found on Vimeo.com or by visiting www.SkyeOfTheDamned.com or the SKYE Facebook page: http://facebook.com/SkyeOfTheDamned/.

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      The Clandestine Conflict, Part I - Tamsin Silver

      The Clandestine Conflict

      Part I – Heroes Square

      Tamsin L. Silver

      Dedication

      I want to dedicate this to my writers group. You all rocketh much!

      Published by Tamsin L. Silver

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright Tamsin L. Silver, June 2012. All Rights Reserved.

      New York City, 2144

      The explosion erupted as if the gates of hell had opened up beneath her feet. The force of the blast tossed her like a rag doll into the air. Crashing through the window of a nearby building, the blast propelled her across the office inside and into a wall.

      Coughing out, Maya pressed a button on her vest. Run diagnostic.

      RUNNING DIAGNOSTIC ran across the faceplate of her helmet for her to read.

      As she attempted to stay conscious, she felt the needle inside the vest push into her skin to read her vitals. She winced briefly.

      As she waited for the comp unit in her vest to analyze her blood, she could feel herself starting to lose consciousness. Finally, she saw it begin to run its findings on the faceplate. It read, SILVER CONTAMINATION: 72%.

      Shit, was all she said before the darkness pulled her under.

      Lights flashed in her eyes. On, off, on, off, from one eye to the next. She blinked, trying to focus. Where was she? She could just make out Andrian’s face above hers. He was talking but she couldn’t hear him. All she heard was a horrible, high-pitched ringing. Unable to focus, she closed her eyes again.

      The lights that passed by her closed eyelids were different from before. Opening her eyes, she saw they were florescent ceiling lights passing above her every few feet as her body rolled down a hall. Andrian’s face was there again. She still couldn’t hear him, but she could read his lips.

      Hang in there, just hang in there.

      A man in white attempted to detach him from the gurney. Reluctantly Andrian began to back away, but she reached for him, grasping his wrist tightly. She needed to tell him.

      I’ll be right here. You’ll be fine, Andrian’s lips said.

      She shook her head and pain slammed into her, forcing her eyes open in shock. She didn’t have time for that now though. Swallowing back the bile the pain caused, she tried to speak. He moved closer. The doctor attempted to remove him again. This time she said, No. Or maybe she yelled it. She couldn’t hear so she wasn’t sure. Either way, everyone seemed to stop. I saw him, she said.

      His lips formed the word, Who?

      The bomber. I saw his face.

      With that, the doctor finally won and detached him from her grasp, wheeling her into surgery, where she again blacked out.

      Earlier that morning…

      Maya Petrovskii slipped out into the darkness of dawn, her breath like smoke in the cold air. Zipping up her jacket, she scanned the wasted cityscape. The coast seemed clear. Then again, it was early enough that smart people were still asleep. Just in case, though, she shoved her long blonde hair up into a hat. Pulling the front brim of it down low to hide her face, she began to walk.

      Winding through the darkened streets, her hands shoved deep in her jacket pockets, Maya’s knee-high black boots kicked at the trash that lay around. A windblown plastic bag caught on her toe and she shook it off.

      Damn humans. It was bad enough they had destroyed the planet, but they continued to consider it a lost cause.

      Stopping for a moment, she looked at the sky as it began to lighten to gray. Every morning she watched with hope that the sun might break through the Ink Cloud and shine on the Earth again. However, it didn’t look like today was going to be that day, so Maya put her head down and continued her trek down Eighth Avenue.

      In 2128, the U.S. Government tasked human scientists to rebuild the fragile ozone layer. Between global warming and many dying off from cancer and other sun-related illnesses, a solution was mandatory. So in the summer of 2131, that solution, a self-sustaining chemical with the ability to block harmful solar rays, was released into the atmosphere. However, something went wrong. The chemical darkened the sky, blocking almost all radiation, both good and bad.

      Darkness encased the planet, broken only by a dim gray light that shone through the Ink Cloud to distinguish day from night and prevent the planet from turning to ice. This cloud also freed the vampires from the sun’s dangerous rays, giving them free reign to roam the Earth at any hour. Due to

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