Aegis League by S.S. Segran Book Tour and Giveaway :)
Aegis Rising
The
Aegis League Series Book 1
by
S.S. Segran
Genre:
Action-Adventure
Sci-Fantasy thriller
Aegis League is a multi-award winning series about friendship, courage and a quest to save humanity. MOVIE RIGHTS OPTIONED.
We had our chance. Our days are now numbered.
Lifelong
friends Jag, Tegan, Aari, Mariah and Kody are cast into an adventure
of epic proportions when their small plane crashes in the remote
forests of northern Canada. They are rescued by a secretive tribe in
a hidden valley who possess astonishing abilities — and a
terrifying divination.
The
group soon learns that not everyone in the peaceful village means
them well. But the worst is yet to come when they discover a larger,
more sinister force at work outside the valley. And it intends to
remake the world in its image.
Shocked
to learn that the fate of humanity now rests on their
shoulders, the teenagers struggle to accept their new roles.
Armed with powers entrusted to them by an ancient prophecy and the
resilience of their friendship, can the group survive the onslaught
of a ruthless enemy and put an end to its cataclysmic scheme?
If
you like epic adventure stories with endearing characters
in an immersive world then you will love the
Aegis League series!
Worlds Collide. Heroes Arise.
"Astonishingly
imaginative and thoughtful…” ~Samuel
F. Pickering, inspiration for Academy Award-winning movie Dead Poets
Society~
Over 125,000 copies sold/downloaded & 1.8 million page-reads in Kindle Unlimited!
(Prologue – 500 B.C.)
Sprinting like a madman, he soon reached his house. Smoke and flames shot out from the roof as he barged through the main door. Fumes and ashes began to choke his lungs. He coughed as he called out to his family.
No answer.
Terrified, Mokun tore through his abode. His eyes teared up so terribly from the smoke that he could hardly see where he was going as the unbearable heat weighed down on him. His heart pounded as he struggled to breathe. He couldn’t find his family anywhere. Then a thought struck him: the cellar! They may have panicked and sought safety below ground.
He ripped off the hem of his tunic and tied it around his nose and mouth. The smoke was so thick he was forced to feel rather than see his way to the cellar. He found the door to the cellar opened and tripped over the steps in his haste, falling to the ground. He pulled himself up and called out again to his loved ones. He got no response and stepped forward. His foot bumped against something and he jumped back.
With growing dread, he knelt down in the darkness, squinting to make out three huddled shapes. He froze in horror, oblivious to the danger around him. His five-year-old daughters were huddled against their mother, and his wife had her arms wrapped around the twins. They didn’t move.
Sprinting like a madman, he soon reached his house. Smoke and flames shot out from the roof as he barged through the main door. Fumes and ashes began to choke his lungs. He coughed as he called out to his family.
No answer.
Terrified, Mokun tore through his abode. His eyes teared up so terribly from the smoke that he could hardly see where he was going as the unbearable heat weighed down on him. His heart pounded as he struggled to breathe. He couldn’t find his family anywhere. Then a thought struck him: the cellar! They may have panicked and sought safety below ground.
He ripped off the hem of his tunic and tied it around his nose and mouth. The smoke was so thick he was forced to feel rather than see his way to the cellar. He found the door to the cellar opened and tripped over the steps in his haste, falling to the ground. He pulled himself up and called out again to his loved ones. He got no response and stepped forward. His foot bumped against something and he jumped back.
With growing dread, he knelt down in the darkness, squinting to make out three huddled shapes. He froze in horror, oblivious to the danger around him. His five-year-old daughters were huddled against their mother, and his wife had her arms wrapped around the twins. They didn’t move.
Aegis Incursion
The
Aegis League Series Book 2
Aegis League is a multi-award winning series about friendship, courage and a quest to save humanity. MOVIE RIGHTS OPTIONED.
The first wave strikes. The assault on humanity begins.
A
mysterious plague destroys crops and leaves swaths of farmland around
the world in ruins. Panic and riots break out. Famine and rebellion
push nations to the brink of war.
With
the memories of their fateful summer suspiciously erased, straining
their relationships, Jag, Tegan, Kody, Aari and Mariah must
regain what’s lost to battle the forces of darkness advancing
across the lands.
Finding
themselves hunted by operatives from a clandestine organization
at every turn, can the group outmaneuver their pursuers and stop
the world from descending into chaos?
If
you like epic adventure stories with endearing characters
in an immersive world, then you will love the Aegis
League series!
Worlds Collide. Heroes Arise.
"If
Daniel Silva and Rick Riordan had a love child, it would be the young
S.S.Segran. With the intensity of an adult spy thriller and the
relatable characters that teenagers enjoy, Aegis Incursion takes YA
Action, Adventure, and Fantasy to a new level." ~
The OnlineBookClub.org ~
Over 125,000 copies sold/downloaded & 1.8 million page-reads in Kindle Unlimited!
… Jag Sanchez bolted upright in his
bed, gasping for air. As he caught his breath, he stared at the wall
ahead, not realizing he was sweating but very aware that every part
of him was trembling. He ran a hand over his face and shut his eyes
tightly.
That voice. That voice had been
haunting his dreams for the last nine months, since . . .
He looked at his phone beside his bed
and yelped when he saw the time. Late for school, again. He leapt out
of bed and stumbled around his room as he got ready then grabbed his
bag and flew down the stairs toward the front door, not bothering to
stop for breakfast. How was it that he lived only five minutes from
the high school but was constantly late, even when he put his alarm
on?
Aegis Evolution
The
Aegis Series Book 3
For fans of Maze Runner, Hunger Games and Percy Jackson comes an award-winning story of friendship, courage and a battle for humanity. MOVIE RIGHTS OPTIONED.
The second wave is unleashed. The world is forced to its knees.
Two
strains of a devastating pathogen infect population centers around
the globe. From mega-cities to remote villages, the descent into
chaos is swift as the disease spreads like wildfire.
When
Jag is injured from an accident, Tegan reluctantly assumes leadership
of the group as they are tasked with their most challenging mission
yet by the Elders of Dema-Ki.
But
things take a turn for the worse when one of them becomes infected
and hovers on the brink of death. The friends throw caution to the
wind and risk everything in their quest for a cure… one which, for
reasons unknown, has remained concealed for over two thousand years.
Can
Tegan and the League discover the remedy before a relentless enemy
locates and destroys it, sending millions of lives to their end?
If
you like gripping action-adventure stories in an
immersive world, then you will love the Aegis League
series!
Worlds Collide. Heroes Arise.
"Following
the tradition of the prior two books, readers are treated to chapter
after chapter of fascinating characters, exciting action and
apocalyptic consequences." ~~
The US Review of Books ~
Over 125,000 copies sold/downloaded & 1.8 million page-reads in Kindle Unlimited!
“Atsor!”
a voice thundered.
Aari
felt his blood run cold. Slowly, he and Mariah turned around to face
a powerful beam of light. They raised their hands to shield their
eyes, both moving instinctively to block the boulder behind them.
If
he sees the ropes, we’re in trouble,
Aari thought.
The
guard lowered the flashlight; Aari could only see a silhouette as his
eyes tried to adjust to the sudden shift in brightness.
“Atah
medaber ivrit?”
the
man asked.
Ivrit
. . . that means Hebrew. He’s asking if we speak Hebrew. Aari
shuffled through the few words he knew in the language. “Loh,
loh ivrit. Anglit. We
speak English.”
The
guard became disgruntled upon hearing that. In stilted English, he
asked, “What you doing here?”
Aari
swallowed. “Uh . . .”
Mariah
suddenly rounded on him. “I told you!” she screeched. “I told
you we shouldn’t have come up here!”
Aari
nearly tripped over himself in his surprise. “What—”
“No!
Don’t even try! I told you,
there’s no need for something overly romantic! A simple day trip to
the Dead Sea’s a good enough date! But do you ever listen to me?”
It
took a moment for Aari to catch on and when he did, it took
everything he had to keep a straight face. “I was trying to do
something nice for you!” he yelled back. He noticed that she’d
slipped her hand to her back pocket where the radio was, just out of
the guard’s view. “But you always have to go and make a big fuss
about it, don’t you?”
“A
fuss? Look
at where your harebrained idea just landed us. Thanks so much!
What a fan-freakin’-tastic night! I’d rank this as the worst date
of all time!”
“Hey,
hey!” the guard boomed. “Calm down!”
Mariah
stormed past the guard, taking his attention with her. Aari quickly
faced the boulder and deflected the light, rendering it and the ropes
invisible. He backed up so he and Mariah stood together, forcing the
guard to turn toward them, away from the big rock. From the corner of
his eye, he saw that the white-haired man sported a gray shirt and
black pants with a holster on his hip.
Definitely
a park guard,
he concluded. Old
guy, but he sure doesn’t move like one.
“My
mother warned me about you,” Mariah hissed.
Aari
stifled an eye-roll. Of
course, pick the most clichéd of clichés.
“What
you doing here?” the guard demanded again. “Hours closed!”
“This
. . . this complete idiot thought
that staying here after hours would be romantic,” Mariah snapped.
“I told him no, we really shouldn’t, but he kept insisting. I am
so, so sorry!”
“Show
ID.” The guard, though gruff, was obviously thrown off by the
quarreling.
Aari,
needing to keep the boulder in his line of sight to hide it, reached
into his pocket and pulled out his passport, as did Mariah. The guard
took the documents, then stopped. Aari could feel the man’s eyes on
him.
Probably
wondering why I keep looking past him,
he thought.
The
guard whirled around. “What you looking?”
Yep.
“What
you—” The man halted. He peered straight in the direction of the
boulder. In his peripheral view, Aari could see the guard’s
mounting perplexity, as if something was missing.
“Nothing,
sir,” Aari said. “I just don’t want to look at her, because
she’s so bloody ungrateful when all I did was try to be more
romantic like she wants me
to!”
“Don’t
you dare!” Mariah screamed. “I am so done with you!”
“Yeah?
Well I’m done with you!”
“Quiet!”
the guard bellowed. “My God!”
Aari’s
heart raced as he watched the man go through their passports,
alternating his flashlight beam between the documents and their
faces. Then he slipped the passports into his shirt pocket and
motioned for the teenagers to walk ahead of him, back to the north
side of the mesa.
“Are
we in trouble?” Mariah asked. “Please, it was an honest mistake!
I’ll never date another moron!”
“I
send you down. Other guard will get you. Walk, please.”
Aari
fell in step with Mariah, feeling very conscious of the guard behind
them. Oh
no, oh no, no, no. What are we gonna do? Where are they gonna take
us?
“What’s
that?” the guard asked harshly. “Madam, back pocket. Is that
radio?”
Every
ounce of color drained from Aari’s face.
“Is
that radio?” the guard repeated.
Mariah
cleared her throat. “Yes. But it’s not on.” She pulled it out,
and as she did, Aari caught sight of her thumb on the dial,
discreetly turning the radio off. “See?”
“Where
other one?”
Aari
whipped around furiously. “She chucked it over the side of the
mountain! She threw it away in one of her stupid fits!”
Mariah
kicked dirt at him. “Don’t make me look
insane!”
“I
don’t have to! You’re doing a damn fine job on your own!”
“Enough!”
the guard shouted, glaring at them both. “Okay, that’s it. You go
down. Now.
And you will not come here again.”
Amazon Bestselling author S.S. Segran is a lover of books, dogs and all the popcorn she can stuff her face with. Her genre-defying Aegis League Series traverses the exciting worlds of action/adventure, sci-fi, thriller and speculative fiction in the YA universe. Even as she delves into her creative endeavors, she intends to support youths in developing countries realize their potential through her non-profit organization, AegisLeague.org.
When not devouring a novel or
writing one, Segran can be found drawing on paper and tablet, or
tumbling into a black hole of comic books and video games. She's an
ardent fan of horseback riding and parkour, and having enjoyed
jumping out of a perfectly fine plane at fifteen thousand feet --
perhaps skydiving.
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