Hello, and welcome to the world of the Psi Fighters. Sixteen‐year‐old Rinnie Noelle is a high school student with a secret identity. When she’s not doing homework or studying for a test, she fights the vicious criminals who terrorize her city. With a decade of training in the Mental Arts, Rinnie can not only kick major butt with her bare hands, but also she wields technology that creates amazing weapons from her thoughts and emotions. Please join her in her battle against evil as she plays a deadly cat and mouse game against a vicious killer who stalks her just as he did her parents ten years earlier.
Meet D.R. Rosensteel!
D. R. Rosensteel writes clean action-adventure fantasy. He grew up devouring Marvel and DC comics. He is a Batman aficionado (1960s television version) and über-fan of the television series Supergirl. He planned to be a comic strip artist but dated a girl in college with a very scientific mind, so he became a chemist instead. Fear of genetic mutation caused him to leave that field and start a consulting business so he could charge obscene fees, giving him plenty of time to write. Rosensteel lives in Pennsylvania with his wife, two daughters, and a cat. Also female. The extreme estrogen levels in his house contribute to his writing voice, and the high-pitched whining that destroyed his hearing has given him an almost supernatural ability to tune out everything and concentrate on his characters.
Meet Live and Let Psi!
Rinnie Noelle would rather kick some creepy villain butt than go on a date. As a Psi Fighter trained in the Mental Arts, she can’t be distracted by emotion. Her nemesis, Nicolaitin, is manipulating students from her school, using them as puppets to carry out his new plan to find the infamous Morgan Girl, and he doesn’t care who becomes collateral damage in the process. People’s lives are depending on Rinnie’s ultimate focus.
But Mason Draudimon keeps slicing into her soul sharper than a Thought Saber, and her feelings for him knock her off her game with the strength of a psionic War Hammer. Mason insists on helping Rinnie take down Nicolaitan for his own reasons—to avenge his mother—and the closer they get to the truth, the more dangerous the dance between mind and heart, life and death, logic and love.
Excerpt:
Just as I realized that being there was a huge mistake, the Knight stopped singing and turned toward me.
Nicolaitan.
“Come out, come out, wherever you are,” he whispered, moving his red eyes side to side as though trying to pinpoint my location. “Haven’t you learned yet that I am impossible to surprise?”
I didn’t move a muscle. I didn’t even breathe. Probably because I was frozen in fear.
“Maybe you could help me,” Nicolaitan said, no longer whispering. “I am searching for something I lost yesterday, and I think I dropped it right in this very spot.”
I decided it would be smart to back away very slowly and quietly to avoid detection. But first, I had to get hold of myself. I was more terrified than I had ever been in my life. My pounding heart and shallow breathing would soon result in passing out—a very uncool thing for a crime fighter to do.
“It is important that I find it,” Nicolaitan continued, his bloodshot eyes still searching. “Okay, I’ll tell you what it is. It’s a key. To information that could sully my impeccable reputation. All lies, of course, but still…”
I remembered Andy’s warning about controlling my emotions. I took a slow, deep breath, cleared my mind, and placed my hand on the barrel of my Amplifier. Just in case.
Nicolaitan crossed his arms, then uncrossed them and held his gauntleted hands wide.
“Look, I know you’re a Psi Fighter. I hate to admit it, but nobody else is talented enough to get this close to me and live. I know, I shouldn’t say nice things about my sworn enemy, but I like to give credit where it’s due. Now, be a good little doobie and show yourself.”
I felt his influence reaching out, trying to take hold of me like he had the police officers. Shield, I thought, and instantly blocked my mind.
Nicolaitan clapped his hands and spun on one foot, laughing like a hyena. “Oh, you’re good! Shut me right out, so you did. I am impressed. Sadly, I’m a busy man. I can’t play this game all day. Show yourself. You know you want to. Show yourself…or I will leave. Just like that. Poof, gone! Three seconds.”
No way was I falling for that.
He held up three fingers. “Three.”
Keep counting, bozoid. I’m not dumb enough to take you on alone.
“Two.” He dropped a finger.
Anyway, I had a ton of homework.
“One.”
And two tests in the morning.
“Bye‐bye!” He dropped his hand, turned, and threw his cloak around himself.
“Last time we met, you were looking for somebody,” I said quietly in my best electronically altered femme fatale voice. “Now it’s something. I’m seeing a pattern here. You have a habit of losing things.”
Nicolaitan unwrapped himself from his cloak and smiled in my direction. “You’ve come back for me. I knew you would.”
I felt safe enough with the sarcophagus between us to keep talking. “You seemed lonely. It was the least I could do.”
Live and Let Psi
By: D. R. Rosensteel
Release Date: July 11, 2016
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The excerpt has me wondering what’s going on. You don’t often read about a sarcophagus and an altered femme fatale voice in the same page.
Excerpt sounds very interesting!
I think Live and Let PSI sounds great ♡ I would love to read this book. Thank you
Wow! This synopsis has my mind spinning! What is going on???
I don’t know…but I DEFINITELY want to find out!
The reviews on Goodreads are pretty favourable too! Another one for my TBR!
Love the excerpt–this author is fabulous at building tension. I will love reading this book.
Sounds very intriguing and I look fwd to reading it! ???
After reading the synopsis I just got done ordering the first book! XD Def hooked!
This sounds like such an exciting book! I really want to read it now!