Legendary hacker, Dimity
Pond, is on the run from the law.
Her landlord’s sold her home, her
money has disappeared along with her two-timing husband, a cyber-terrorist named
Nemesis is forcing her to wreak havoc with a nasty virus and she's developing a
vile migraine.
Six years ago, Nemesis framed Dimity
for the collapse of one of Europe's biggest banks. The money was never found,
and the bank's failure caused untold damage to its customers. She's been living
under the radar ever since. The only way she can clear her name and live a
normal life is to uncover Nemesis's identity, but he's always one step ahead.
Since Lord Richard Summerhayes left
the Special Forces he's built the best disaster-recovery network in the world,
known as The Bunker. Banks, militaries, airports and other major systems around
the world rely on him as the last unshakeable digital fortress in the face of
disaster. Richard has been keeping an eye on his neighbor who has a dubious
hacking past. He doesn't like hackers, and when someone nukes his network with
an intriguing new virus he knows exactly who to blame. But when he confronts
her, he gets a whole lot more than he bargained for.
When Nemesis commits an unthinkable
act of terrorism, the last hope is an encrypted file that only Dimity can
crack. Will Nemesis manipulate Dimity into helping him wipe out the world's
biggest financial center? Or can Richard and Dimity take Nemesis down once and
for all?
“Oh Sarah Easton ——” A cold
digital voice mocked her. “It’s about to begin. Send the virus.”
Cold horror washed over Dimity.
She jabbed the phone’s off button and dropped it on the table.
A noise, the rough grate of wood
on metal, startled her. Numbers curled across her mind as a migraine inched
closer.
“It’s the stove.” She spoke out
loud, to break the quiet.
Beau – the labrador – cozy and
content at the base of the wood-burning stove, continued to sleep as if he’d
spent the morning chasing rabbits.
Which he hadn’t.
Unless bacon was involved, Beau
never ran.
The silence of the house closed
back around her.
She scooped up the phone,
hesitating, waiting, and hoping the suffocating dread would dissipate. It didn’t.
Then she hooked the handset back into its base, flicked open the dishwasher and
unloaded the dirty cups and glasses she’d stacked there in a rare burst of
domesticity that morning.
Someone hammered on the front
door. A thick white mug, with the faded words Nerd Girl on it, slipped from her
fingers, bounced off the side of the dishwasher door and shattered into a
thousand pieces on the floor.
Jake? It couldn’t be him. He had
a key and was in the south of France. But no one ever came to visit, she made
sure of it.
The person hammered again.
“Shit,” she muttered. “This
stupid life.”
Author bio
Caitlyn Nicholas began writing in 2005. Exhausted,
pregnant and coping with a demanding toddler, she decided the time was right to
embark on a writing career.
To her family's eternal startlement she is now the
author of five novels and a short story.
Her debut novel - and the first manuscript she had
ever written - Running Scared, was published in 2007. This was followed by
Secret Intentions in 2009, The Danger Game in 2012 and, Drive Me To
Distraction, also in 2012. Her next
novel, Pursuit, will be out in August 2013.
Author Links
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