Love Bytes is delighted to have author Victoria Sue visiting us on the last day of the year to show us her brand new cover for the Enhanced World Series.
Go and read the interview we had with Victoria Sue and check out the wonderful new covers!
Don’t forget to enter the amazing giveaway she brought with her 🙂
Interview with Victoria Sue and Love Bytes
Question: I understand you have come to give us some news about your enhanced series?
Victoria: Yes, and thanks for having me! Just to give you a little background. My enhanced series (currently six books) has languished a little because of the complications getting my rights back from a publisher and fitting it into the already busy schedule I have of my self-published work. The last book – Everybody Burns – was the story of one of the readers favorites, Eli, and he fought hard for his Happily Ever After.
Question: So do you have a next book planned? Are you intending to finish the series soon?
Victoria: My next book in the series is about Sawyer. I actually wrote half of it and then decided to completely change everything. I don’t want to give things away but Sawyer breaks one of my biggest series rules. That each enhanced partners with a regular human. It’s a plot twist in the book so I don’t want to give it away. (Sorry) But Sawyer is having huge problems, not only in his personal life, but with his ability which both seem to be spiraling out of control.
Question: Because you’re an evil author?
Victoria: Pretty much. The main thing is that now I have my plot, the writing will be easier.
Question: Maybe for those readers unfamiliar with the series you could give us a quick intro?
Victoria: The idea came to me because I read an article about people being born without little toes.
Question:
Victoria: (grins) Its basically evolution. We don’t need our appendix and some people are born without it. We don’t need to swing through trees and hang on with out bare feet so that’s what the article was explaining. That the little toe is now redundant. And it gave me the idea. What if some people were born with enhanced DNA now? That the “abilities” they had were just accelerated evolution. So my heroes simply have abilities that will become the norm in a few hundred thousand years.
Question: For example?
Victoria: Gael has impenetrable skin. Every person has a gene called KLF4 that makes the skin waterproof. But what if a person’s levels of that is off the charts? There’s a whole science called epigenetics that basically argues people can actually change their DNA and that happens to Talon in book two.
Question: And Sawyer?
Victoria: Sawyer’s ability, or one of them, is that his body’s magnetic field is controllable. A lot of people don’t know that everyone has a magnetic field. Sawyer’s, however, is off the charts and his body can therefore biologically react with light – which in theory is how cloaking devises work. It’s not a stretch to say he can become invisible. Unfortunately for Sawyer his ability is getting rapidly uncontrollable.
Question: And when can we expect to read Sawyer’s story?
Victoria: It’s going to be called “Mirror of the Sun” from the quote “Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun” by Evita Peron. It should be available to pre-order soon.
Question: I understand you have a give-a-way?
Victoria: Yes, to celebrate my gorgeous new series covers, I’m giving away a $25 Amazon gift card (or international equivalent) to one lucky commenter on this post.
So are we ready for the awesome new covers?!
Here we go
When a shot to the heart might be deadlier than a terrorists bullet…
Finn has battled all his life.
His selfish mother, his father’s suicide, his homophobic brother, and finally his undiagnosed dyslexia stopped his dream of joining the FBI before it could even start.
His one chance–his only chance–is joining an experimental group and partnering an enhanced human with lethal abilities that wants him to fail.
Saving the world might be doable. Not losing his heart will be impossible.
Talon’s deadly abilities are spiraling out of control. Desperate to keep Finn safe, Talon struggles to protect the man he loves with all his heart and not become the greatest risk to Finn’s life.
Finn has no choice but to offer himself as bait for the evil forces kidnapping enhanced children, facing danger he is untrained and unprepared for, and he will have to do it alone.
Does Talon have one last fight in him? Will he slay everyone who wants to destroy Finn and the team, or will he finally discover that to defeat their enemy and the ultimate threat, the biggest battle he has to face is one with himself?
Gael Peterson has spent years hiding behind the enhanced abilities he wears like a mask, even though he is an important, confident member of the FBI’s exclusive H.E.R.O. team. The hurt and betrayal of his mom’s abandonment and his father’s fists are secrets buried deep beneath the ugly scars on his face, and he doesn’t trust Jake, his new, regular human partner, with any of them. In a world where those with special abilities like Gael’s are regarded as freaks and monsters, it won’t be easy for him to rely on Jake to have his back, especially when the abilities of a vulnerable, nonspeaking, enhanced child make that child a murder suspect.
Tempers rise, and loyalties are challenged, and when the serial killer targeting the enhanced finally sets his sights on Gael, not only will Gael have to trust Jake with his secrets, he might have to trust him to save his life.
Deaf since childhood, Sebastian Armitage had a promising musical future until his
dreams were shattered when he transformed at twelve years old.
In a world where enhanced humans are terrorized and imprisoned, his life shrinks around him even more as
he suffers the torment of his father’s experimental research to enable him to hear.
Gray Darling—struggling with the scars left by his experience in Afghanistan—agrees
to provide short-term personal protection when anonymous threats escalate into assault
on those closest to Seb.
As the lines between protection and attraction blur, Gray and Seb can’t ignore the
intense feelings drawing them together. But secrets and betrayals might prove deadly,
unless Gray is willing to risk it all. And Seb must find the strength to make his own future
and sing his own song….
To protect and serve…. All Vance Connelly ever wanted to do was continue his family’s tradition and join the Tampa Police Department, but his dreams were crushed the day he woke with the enhanced mark on his face. After years of struggling to adjust to life as an enhanced human, by a stroke of luck, he met Talon Valdez and became a proud member of the FBI’s Human Enhanced Rescue Organization.
Samuel “Angel” Piper is eager to leave his DEA undercover work behind as he joins the HERO team as Vance’s regular human partner. But Sam’s painful past is ever present, just below the surface of the life he has built for himself as an ambitious young agent. When the team investigates rumors of a new drug using enhanced blood, the case’s mysterious connection to Sam threatens not just his life but Vance’s.
Trust doesn’t come easy for Sam, but Vance is willing to fight to convince his partner that the strength of his heart might be the salvation they both need.
Eli was only seven years old when he had been given to monsters.
Sixteen years later he finally gets the chance for revenge, and with his enhanced abilities changing, nothing and no one is gonna stop him, especially a new partner that seems to see right through the black holes in his soul.
Agent Daniel Connelly left Washington trying to keep his sanity, but the images of the innocent victims are still haunting him and knows the horror in Eli’s eyes is exactly what he is trying to forget.
Everybody Burns is a story about two men falling in love. Except, one doesn’t think he is capable of it…
And the other doesn’t think he deserves it.
Victoria Sue fell in love with love stories as a child when she would hide away with her mom’s library books and dream of the dashing hero coming to rescue her from math homework. She never mastered math but never stopped loving her heroes and decided to give them the happy ever afters they fight so hard for.
She loves reading and writing about gorgeous boys loving each other the best—and creating a family for them to adore. Thrilled to hear from her readers, she can be found most days lurking on Facebook where she doesn’t need factor 1000 sun-cream to hide her freckles.
I’m so excited about Sawyer’s book and love the origin of the title! Also the new covers are *heart eyes*
This was a great series. The new covers are dynamic.
I loved this series! The new covers are gorgeous and I can’t wait for Sawyer’s story!
Such a good series, I can’t wait for the next one
I love the new covers. Heading to Amazon to check it out. I’ll also be awaiting the new book. Thanks for the great article
This is my favorite series of yours, so glad to hear we”ll be getting Sawyers story!
I love the new covers ad can’t wait to read Sawyer’s story. *wonders if she can justify buying the series again for the new covers*
I haven’t read this series but these covers are now making me want to start reading it. They are gorgeous 😍
The new covers are wonderful and now I feel a reread of the series coming on. I cannot wait to read Sawyer’s story.
Oh the eyes. Those covers are gorgeous.
Love the new covers!
series sounds great and will definitely be reading
This series is on my TBR for the new year.
I love the covers and i haven’t read this series yet but it sounds good.
I’ve had ‘Five Minutes Longer’ in my kindle library forever! This is a great impetus to read it and keep on going! I especially love series where I can read them in one ‘few swoop!’
Enjoy the new year!
love these new covers!
loved this series <3
Amazing new covers! Congrats!
All of these covers are absolutely gorgeous! The synopses have intrigued me as well, this sounds like a must read series for me. Thank you for sharing your interview and books’ details and for offering a giveaway, I am looking forward to reading your stories. Happy New Year to you and your family
Love the covers!!
Love these covers! These sound like an awesome series! I’d love to read them. Thanks for sharing!
Love the new covers and looking forward to reading this series!
I loved the ones I read. I missed some.
This series sounds fantastic. I can’t wait to read it!
I love this series, And the new covers are simply amazing!
This series is awesome and the new covers looks great !!! Can’t wait to delve into the Enhanced world again !
I loved everything you write! The new covers are beautiful.
Loved this series so much! Great seeing all the new covers for it!
Excited to hear you were able to win your rights back for your creation!!! Sad that you even had to go through that.
Love the covers and look forward to continuing to read their stories.
Thanks for sharing your wonderful imagination.