Lux 1.1 Seeds

LUX 1.1 Seeds : The Complete First Novella

The second book in the series, Lux 1.2 Call to Arms, is now available on Amazon for 99 cents.

A note to buyers:

You know how it is.

You wait all week for your favorite TV show, waiting to see what happens when this person is on the verge of death, or that person is about to spill all their secrets, or he is about to kiss her (finally!).

Nothing can beat that sense of anticipation.

But, if you’re anything like me, you have this terrible need for instant gratification. You don’t want to wait a year or more to find out what happens in your favorite book series.

Lux is written with those of you in mind, the anticipation junkies, and the I want it now crowd.

This novel is episodic. Each installment is roughly a hundred or so pages, and will be released on the average of every three weeks.

So you can hang in that moment just long enough to savor it, but not so long that the waiting makes you crazy.

Or, if you read while drinking a lot of energy drinks and can’t stand waiting a couple weeks to finish a story, think of this as literary TIVO, save them up for when you’re ready.

Lux is available on Amazon and Smashwords.

Lux 1.2 Call to Arms will be released 09.06.11

 For information on upcoming installments and to get an in-depth look at the world of Lux visit: luxtheseries.com

Now,

The moment is here.

Close your eyes... 

Lux

1.1

Seeds

A novel by Jalex Hansen

Digital Edition

Copyright 2011 by Jalex Hansen

All Rights Reserved

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

-William Shakespeare

LUX 1.1 Seeds

Chapter One

There was a flash of light. A white hot brilliance, too bright for all the darkness it would leave behind.

Lissa ran.

The flames ruptured the earth where the compound had been, reaching out into the night with hot, bright red tentacles, and then pulling back into their monster center, dissolving down to blackness, hiding all the secrets forever.

Disoriented by light and fear, she was oblivious to her ragged breath and the beat of her feet, as she tried to escape the explosion.

The car was unlocked, the smallest of miracles, the keys left dangling from the ignition. Left in haste and panic as her mother tried to warn her father what was going to happen, running to tell him that they had to get out; they had to run as Lissa was doing now.

They had collided in the hallway, she and her mother, just inside the door.

Her mother gripped her shoulders so tightly the bones rubbed together. Her eyes wide and bulging in panic, her skin drawn taut against her skull. This terrified Lissa enough without the desperate command, “Get out Lissa! Run until you can’t go any farther and then keep going.”