Stealth Retribution by Vikki Kestell

Stealth Retribution by Vikki Kestell

Retribution. Also known as payback or a more dated word: vengeance. Arnaldo Soto has taken Emilio and intends to use him as bait to trap Gemma. It's an effective strategy, because Gemma will do anything--anything--to save the young boy.

The woman known as Gemma Keyes is gone, her molecular structure destroyed and reassembled as . . . something else. In Gemma's stead emerges a fierce weapon: part woman, part nanotechnology, her cellular composition conjoined with the nanocloud, indissoluble and formidable. She and the nanomites are now more than a match for her enemies--but Gemma has promised God that she will not strive to visit retribution on Arnaldo Soto for taking Emilio. The nanomites have made no such promise.

The third installment in the Nanostealth series will blow your mind.

Excerpt. First the merge. Now this, the latest iteration of Gemma Keyes--or should I say, the new and improved nanocloud? The revived and restored nanocloud . . . superior in every way, comprising six tribes and, at last count, more than twenty trillion nanomites; the nanocloud that had annexed and incorporated the person I'd been--all of who and what I was.
The nanomites and I were melded. We were irrevocably bound to each other now. We were an amalgamation.

I lifted my hands to examine them. As I did, the light fixtures banding the cavern flickered; current jetted from the wavering lights and slammed into my chest. The drawn energy coursed through me and reverberated in my bones. It swelled and spread down my arms until it reached my fingertips, ready to burst forth.

With a curious and almost detached air, I watched as my body attracted more energy from the light fixtures. Electricity crackled around me, infusing me with might. I flexed and curved my fingers; tongues of current sizzled in the palm of my hand and built into a ball of pulsing blue fire.

I drew another deep breath and felt my body respond, my strength rise. The electricity I attracted from the cavern's lights (without conscious intent) pulsed and crackled; it bent toward me and flowed into me. I raised one hand toward the electrical source and current jetted into my palm--arcing and building within the span of my fingertips. I rotated my wrist, and the ball of energy sizzled. Intensified.

I brought my hands together and stared with fascination as the shimmering bolus of energy enlarged. It swirled between my extended fingers. As I moved my splayed hands apart, tendrils of electricity climbed from my fingers onto the ball; they wrapped themselves about the sphere to hold and feed it. The orb grew larger; its vibrations thudded through my chest.

I stared at the sparking sphere of electricity sitting in my hand. What could I do with it? What would happen if I . . . tossed it?

I thought that I knew the answer.

Nanostealth
Book 1: Stealthy Steps
Book 2: Stealth Power
Book 3: Stealth Retribution
Book 4: Deep State Stealth

The readers' enthusiasm for Vikki Kestell's characters and odd plotlines reflects her passion for people and their experiences. I feel like I know these individuals and I'm right there in the novel, feeling what the characters are experiencing, are two frequently expressed sentiments. Vikki is a Ph.D. holder. Organizational Learning and Instructional Technology are two areas where I specialize. She abandoned a twenty-plus-year career in government, academia, and business life to focus solely on writing.

She says that writing is both the best and the most challenging job she has ever had. Vikki and her husband Conrad Smith live in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she is also an renowned speaker and instructor. Visit her website at http: //www.vikkikestell.com/ or follow her on Facebook at http: //www.facebook.com/TheWritingOfVikkiKestell to stay up to date on new book releases.