COUNTERMEASURE
BY
CHRIS ALMEIDA & CECILIA AUBREY
In the first novel of the COUNTERMEASURE SERIES, tenacious ex-CIA agent Cassandra James is in hot water. A cyber thief stole sensitive information from her father's top client - information she was supposed to keep secure - and now she could lose her job, even if she is the boss' daughter. The only person who can help her recover the stolen data is sexy NSA analyst Trevor Bauer - a computer mastermind who's broken through her personal security and might break her heart as well.
Trevor is on the hunt for answers to the mystery surrounding his parents' disappearance. Following a promising lead into the missing Bristol files, he accidentally gets on the radar of a woman too hot to handle...and a mercenary willing to do anything to keep both of them from recovering those files.
To track down the thief, Trevor and Cassandra must embark on a harrowing adventure that leads them across the ocean and into a world of intrigue, danger, and passion. But as they close in on their target, their relationship begins to boil, jeopardizing their mission as well as their very lives. Will they learn to trust their instincts - and each other - in order to survive?
The suspense driven COUNTERMEASURE SERIES combines full-length novels and Bytes of Life short stories about sexy, technologically inclined men and women. The series is filled with heart-stopping danger and enough twists and turns to make a hair-raising rollercoaster seem tame. In the series, Trevor Bauer, a tough as nails NSA geek, and his even more tenacious love interest, Cassandra James, are on a quest for clues in the mysterious disappearance of Trevor's parents. Joined by fate, their search drops them into the mysterious and violent world of data espionage, one that tests their love as they sweep the world with romance, sex, and ingenuity to find answers that will have the power to change their lives forever.
COUNTERMEASURE--Book 1 in the Countermeasure Series--is The TBR Pile's 2012 Book of the Year.
COUNTERMEASURE is a recipient of the indiePENdents's Seal of Good Writing.
WARNING: Contains scenes of mature subject matter, graphic situations and language. Reader discretion is advised.
GUEST POST
What is the inspiration for our books?
Inspiration. Such a wide and very personal subject. Artists have relied on diverse sources of inspiration since the beginning of time. Muses can take the form of places, people, music, art, nature, and each artist is unique in what drives them to write, paint, compose.
When it comes to inspiration, we have our own individual drives. We each draw from different yet similar things to pull the best out of us and into our work. I find my inspiration mostly in real life experiences, people I meet, people watching, personal fantasies, and music. Cecilia has a similar process but veering more toward movies. While I am an avid audiophile, she is an avid moviephile.
The combination of different sources of inspiration works in our favor all the time. While I might come across a song that pulls at my heart strings and paints a new scene or character in my mind, Cecilia gets the same from a scene on TV or from a movie.
Aside from that, the biggest source of inspiration is the drive to write. Some stories come to us in pieces. It takes time to put it together, making sure nothing is amiss. Other times it rushes us like an unstoppable river. When the story comes to us with that sort of power and detail, we can’t wait to write it down.
The core inspiration of the story in our heads, presents itself as a powerful cascade of words which authors have learned to harness and contain in dialog and narrative.
The above applies to Countermeasure. As corny as it may sound, the story came to me in a dream. Trevor’s tragedy and his quest for the truth happened to me in one single dream. Part of that dream became Countermeasure’s prologue.
Our quest now is to expand that dream into a detailed account of that event, adding the bits and pieces missed and overlooked, filling in the small holes and patching the cracks in the story in dream format.
As for the other stories yet to be told, we never know where they can come from. We just hope to have many more years to use all the inspiration we find in the art of living.
Sláinte!
Chris
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS
Facebook:
Chris Almeida - http://www.facebook.com/Chris.Almeida.Author
Cecilia Aubrey - http://www.facebook.com/cecilia.aubrey.author
Authors Facebook Fan Page - https://www.facebook.com/Authors.ChrisAlmeida.CeciliaAubrey
Series Facebook Fan Page - https://www.facebook.com/Countermeasure.Series
Websites:
Chris Almeida & Cecilia
Aubrey - http://chrisalmeida-ceciliaaubrey.com
Countermeasureseries - http://countermeasureseries.com
GoodReads Author Pages:
Twitter:
Amazon:
Chris Almeida - http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B006NPTBOW
Cecilia Aubrey - http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B006NPTPLG
YouTube:
GIVEAWAY!!
In
honor of those who are participating in the Blog Tour. We thought it would be fun to have a scavenger hunt
through the week and offer a grand prize.
Each blog on the tour will post an image with a word to be used to
complete a sentence that has great meaning throughout our series.
Participants
who visit the blogs would have to collect the words from each stop to
form the sentence. Once you complete the sentence at the end of the
tour, you would submit your contact information and the full sentence
(all 13 words) to us via a form on our Countermeasure Series website.
If
the sentence is correct, your name will be entered in a special
drawing for a signed copy of Countermeasure in trade paperback format
and a set of swag including a countermeasure charm, magnet and postcard.
We
will have a page on our site with instruction on how to put the words
together and which sites (links to the tour stops) to find the words and
in what order.
HERE IS THE WORD FOR MY BLOG:
BUY LINKS
UNCHARTED
UNCHARTED is
now available in audio
format from Audible, Amazon and iTunes.
COUNTERMEASURE
(with bonus short story UNCHARTED)
COUNTERMEASURE
COUNTERMEASURE is now available in audio
format from
Audible, Amazon and iTunes.
COUNTERMEASURE:
Bytes of Life Volume I (Anthology with three Bytes of Life - Books 2, 3, and 4)
ECSTASY
BY THE SEA
ECSTASY
BY THE SEA is now available in audio format from Audible,
Amazon and iTunes.
CUFFED
AT MIDNIGHT
CUFFED
AT MIDNIGHT is
now available in audio format from Audible, Amazon and iTunes.
PASSION
AT DAWN
PASSION
AT DAWN is now
available in audio format from Audible, Amazon and iTunes.
TO
RUSSIA WITH LOVE
TO
RUSSIA WITH LOVE is now available in audio format from Audible,
Amazon and iTunes.
BLINDSIDED
LOST
TO RAPTURE
Tawania, Chris and I would like to thank you for letting us visit with you. We love comments and feedback also *winks*. Cheers!
ReplyDeleteWhen reading author's inspiration for their books, it makes the book more personal. I like knowing if something in real life was put into the book based on an experience. It brings it more life for some reason. Plus, I think learning about an author's inspiration bridges the gap between reader and author. You get a glimpse into their life. Thank you for sharing! Congrats on the series, Chris & Cecilia. I look forward to reading more in the future.
ReplyDeleteI am really reading all this stuff. And the scavenger hunt sounds fun. I guess I should grab my safari hat and evil stick and get hunting!
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