Happy Book Birthday: Earth: Population 2 by Aubrie Dionne

We love when new books arrive. Scissors cut open the boxes or we power up our e-readers. We dive into the stories. Today is one of those days. I love Aubrie's books. She takes you to new worlds with her New Dawn and Paradise Reclaimed series....and now we get to stay on Earth but it's not the Earth you and I know.....When aliens come... who would you want fighting at your side??

The last guy on earth is the last person she expects. Will she give up her dream guy to save the world?

Juliette Lewis is going nowhere fast. Responsible for the care of her disabled mom, she faces a life of working at Save ‘N Shop and stalking Gale Williams, a hunky movie star, on Twitter. While all of her friends are getting ready for college, she’s memorizing produce codes.

Her future changes when an asteroid hits her campsite and she finds an alien rune in the wreckage. Two days later, everyone on Earth disappears. But, she’s not alone. Besides the pale beings stalking her, there’s one person who survived, and it’s the last person she’d expect--Gale Williams.

Together they have to save the Earth before humans become a lost memory. But, can she hide her secret infatuation? Will she give up her dream guy to save the world?

---

Now Available in ebook and print....
Amazon
B&N
All Romance Ebook
Kobo
ITunes

If you aren't convinced yet to buy... here's an excerpt.....

A series of high-pitched beeps came from outside, followed by clicks. My blood froze in my legs.

I had to learn pretty fast, or I’d have an extraterrestrial encounter of my own.

I scrambled behind the cash register and reached for the closest, smallest weapon, a black pistol. I found the gun model listed on one of the boxes of ammunition. My fingers shook as I opened the box, and the bullets fell out, rolling all over the counter.

The static noise intensified, and it sounded like they scuttled just beyond where the front window had been. The car door squeaked like something had opened it wider.

Oh my god.

I ducked behind the counter, jammed the bullets in the pistol, and cocked it. I had no idea if I’d loaded it correctly or if it would work. Glass cracked as the things moved into the store. I huddled against the wall, peering through the guns in the glass showcase that also acted as a countertop.

Please, please, please go away. Maybe, if I stayed put, they wouldn’t find me. But between the weapons in the showcase emerged a pale silver arm glittering like a million diamonds. A sleek back with strange protruding muscles, like a backward rib cage, came next, followed by a long, winding tail with tentacles on the end glowing like phosphorescent dandelion fluff. Their wispy haired, enlarged heads only rose a few inches above the countertop, making them shorter than me by about a foot, but that didn’t mean they weren’t dangerous.

My fingers clutched the gun so hard, they hurt. My heart beat like a wild animal out of control. What did they want with me? Had they taken everyone from their beds while they slept? Maybe they’d cleaned up the stranglers.

The tail swerved through the air as if sensing air currents or sonar vibrations, or something. As it moved, the static changed like someone tuning a radio. It was as if the tail emitted energy. I held my breath even though the glass lay between us. The thing turned around, and black, oval eyes with no retinas stared back at me. It opened its mouth and hissed, revealing pointy teeth.

My sanity unraveled into blind terror. Screaming, I tightened my finger on the trigger, and a gunshot shattered the countertop, spraying glass. I closed my eyes and fired blindly, hoping the weapon was enough to keep them away from me. The sound echoed in my ears, and the kickback jerked in my hand. One of my bullets must have ricocheted and hit the ceiling because drywall rained around me. I crashed against the display wall behind me, and pistols tumbled down, hitting my shoulder and my right foot.

Silence fell as I pulled the trigger and the gun clicked uselessly. I’d used all my bullets. Gritting my teeth, I peered around the countertop. The store lay empty, and I breathed with relief. So, they weren’t all powerful. Scary looking, maybe, but shots definitely drove them away. A strange sense of justice came over me, and I reveled in the sweet aftermath of revenge. If I was right, they’d taken everything away from me, including Mom. It was time they faced resistance.

Take that, people stealers.


Wow... make sure you get your copy TODAY!!! :)

Aubrie Dionne is an author and flutist in New England. Her books have received the highest ratings from Romance Times Magazine, as well as Night Owl Reviews and Two Lips Reviews. She has guest blogged on the USA Today Happily Ever After Blog and the Dear Teen Me blog and signed books at the Boston Book Festival, Barnes and Noble, and the Romance Writers of America conference. Her writings have appeared in Mindflights, Niteblade, Silver Blade, Emerald Tales, Hazard Cat, Moon Drenched Fables, A Fly in Amber, and Aurora Wolf. Her books are published by Astraea Press, Spencer Hill Press, Entangled Publishing, Inkspell Publishing, Lyrical Press, and Gypsy Shadow Publishing. Her latest contract is with Harper Impulse, a division of HarperCollins for two contemporary romances about classical music. When she's not writing, Aubrie teaches flute and plays in orchestras.

You can contact Aubrie and read about her latest releases at her website and blog.
http://www.authoraubrie.net
http://authoraubrie.blogspot.com

---