Digital Horizon (#Hacker #3) by Sherry D. Ficklin Release Day Launch

Clean Teen Publishing is excited to announce the release of Digital Horizon, book three in Sherry D. Ficklin's #Hacker series.

Reeling from the death of her father, Farris is on the verge of losing everything. When an unexpected offer lands her a summer internship inside a secret government think tank filled with hackers, she leaps at the opportunity to get some answers. Someone has done the unthinkable, penetrating a hack-proof system and stealing vital military intel--which may have lead to her father's death. 

Finding those responsible will mean teaming up with old enemies, trusting strangers with secrets of their own, and sacrificing what little happiness she's managed to cling to, all in the name of revenge. But when the trail leads her deep into the dark web and a hacker capable of launching an attack on US soil, Farris and her team will have to go further than they thought possible to bring him to justice and avoid all out war.

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Playing With Fire (#Hacker Series Book 1)

One brilliant young hacker.

One experimental government aircraft. 

One chance to keep it all from going up in flames. 

Still recovering from her troubled past, Farris is no stranger to change. But when the military transfers her father across the country to an experimental aircraft squadron, settling in to a new life is the least of her problems. As a series of apparent computer glitches threaten the security of the fleet and the blame falls on her father, she decides to put her computer skills to use digging up the truth. Soon she's drawn into the perilous world of a hacker who is determined to ground the fleet--at any cost.

When all signs lead to someone close to her as the mastermind, Farris will have to burn more than bridges to get to the truth. She will have to risk her fragile new life to uncover the identity of the cyber criminal before they can escalate from harmless tampering... to all out murder.

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In Too Deep (#Hacker Series Book 2)

One talented hacker. One dead body. One explosive secret.

When one reckless night leads Farris Barnett to the dead body of a classmate, she’s as willing as everyone else to write it off as a suicide. That is, until cryptic messages start coming in from someone who knows the truth, and they want Ferris on the case. Putting her hacker skills to work, she begins to unravel the life of a victim who might just have been the guiltiest of them all. Her personal life in turmoil, Farris turns to the only person she can trust to help her get to the bottom of things—a friend on the verge of becoming much more. Together, they confront a killer with a secret not even she could have decoded.

The biggest bombs, the ones that do the most damage, are the ones you never see coming.

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  Sherry D. Ficklin is a full time writer from Colorado where she lives with her husband, four kids, two dogs, and a fluctuating number of chickens and house guests. A former military brat, she loves to travel and meet new people. She can often be found browsing her local bookstore with a large white hot chocolate in one hand and a towering stack of books in the other. That is, unless she’s on deadline at which time she, like the Loch Ness monster, is only seen in blurry photographs.

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In Too Deep (#Hacker #2) by Sherry D. Ficklin Blog Tour (Excerpt + Giveaway)

Clean Teen Publishing is excited to bring you In Too Deep, the second book in the #Hacker Series by Sherry D. Ficklin.

One talented hacker.
One dead body.
One explosive secret.
When one reckless night leads Farris Barnett to the dead body of a classmate, she's as willing as everyone else to write it off as a suicide. That is, until cryptic messages start coming in from someone who knows the truth, and they want Farris on the case. Putting her hacker skills to work, she begins to unravel the life of a victim who might just have been the guiltiest of them all.
Her personal life in turmoil, Farris turns to the only person she can trust to help her get to the bottom of things—a friend on the verge of becoming much more. Together, they confront a killer with a secret not even she could have decoded.
The biggest bombs, the ones that do the most damage, are the ones you never see coming.

Excerpt:

I release his hand a moment before we hit the water, the icy cold waves like shattered glass as I drive through the surface feet-first. Every inch of my skin stings on impact, the oxygen pushed from my lungs. Below the surface, I feel a wave roll over me, the tide dragging me toward the shore.

Kicking my legs, I finally surface, sucking in a deep breath just before another wave crashes over me, threatening to take me back under. It’s only luck that allows me to bob above the water, wiping the hair back from my face. I open my eyes. A few feet away, I see Cole break the surface, gasping for air. Whipping around, he searches for me in the darkness. Catching sight of me, he laughs, cupping his hand and dragging it across the water, sending a spray at my face.

I splash him back, feeling giddy as the adrenaline floods my system. It’s a dizzy, relieved high, sort of like the feeling you get at the end of a roller coaster ride. Part of me is just glad to be alive, the other much braver part cheers to do it again. Just then, a familiar tug grabs me as the tide begins to pull me back out to sea. With a jerk of my head, I turn and swim for shore, checking to make sure Cole is following.

As soon as I feel the sand under my feet, I stand up and begin walking to the shore. Within minutes, Cole is beside me, wringing the water out of his black T-shirt.

Every step is labored, the waves pushing and pulling against my legs. My denim shorts and pale green tank top are soaked and heavy. Even the wind blowing across my bare arms hurts as we hike onto the shore and collapse to our knees, laughing.

I roll onto my back, too elated to care about the sand sticking all over me. The moon is just rising on the horizon, huge and full, its light bouncing off the choppy surface of the water.

“Feel better?” Cole asks, still catching his breath.

I put my hands on my chest. “Yeah, I kinda do.”

We sit there like that for a few minutes, just enjoying the rush of adrenaline and the sound of the waves fracturing against the sand. Finally, he breaks the silence.

“What’s that?” he asks, jerking his head down the beach.

I roll over, squinting against the darkness. A huge lump of something has rolled up on shore a few yards down from us. My first thought is that it looks like a black trash bag. Then I see something else, something that looks a lot like a hand.

“I think that’s a person,” I say, climbing to my feet.

Cole is already upright, jogging toward them. As soon as he gets there, he stops, dropping to his knees and reaching out. I follow behind. The closer I get, the more the crumpled body comes into focus. Cole rolls him onto his back and puts two fingers on his neck, checking for a pulse.

There’s no point, really. His face is waxen and swollen, his eyes wide and milky white, staring up at nothingness. His blue lips are parted, white sea foam bubbling from his mouth. The face is familiar; it’s a boy from our school. Not someone I know well, but someone I’ve seen around enough to recognize.

“That’s Mac,” I say.

Cole clasps his palms against Mac’s chest and starts doing compressions, but I put a hand on his shoulder, stopping him. It’s too late. Much too late.

Mac is dead.

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Playing With Fire (#Hacker Series Book One)

One brilliant young hacker.

One experimental government aircraft. 

One chance to keep it all from going up in flames. 

Still recovering from her troubled past, Farris is no stranger to change. But when the military transfers her father across the country to an experimental aircraft squadron, settling in to a new life is the least of her problems. As a series of apparent computer glitches threaten the security of the fleet and the blame falls on her father, she decides to put her computer skills to use digging up the truth. Soon she's drawn into the perilous world of a hacker who is determined to ground the fleet--at any cost.

When all signs lead to someone close to her as the mastermind, Farris will have to burn more than bridges to get to the truth. She will have to risk her fragile new life to uncover the identity of the cyber criminal before they can escalate from harmless tampering... to all out murder.

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                                                              About The Author

  Sherry D. Ficklin is a full time writer from Colorado where she lives with her husband, four kids, two dogs, and a fluctuating number of chickens and house guests. A former military brat, she loves to travel and meet new people. She can often be found browsing her local bookstore with a large white hot chocolate in one hand and a towering stack of books in the other. That is, unless she’s on deadline at which time she, like the Loch Ness monster, is only seen in blurry photographs.

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In Too Deep (#Hacker #2) by Sherry D. Ficklin Release Day Launch

The #Hacker Novels by Sherry D. Ficklin have gotten a lot of attention since the first book Playing With Fire released last month. Clean Teen Publishing is excited to announce that now readers can dive deeper into the world of a young hacker in book two— In Too Deep. Hang on to your keyboards, because trouble is only a keystroke away. If you haven't started reading this young adult mystery series, you can start today with a free digital copy of Playing With Fire.

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One talented hacker. One dead body. One explosive secret. When one reckless night leads Farris Barnett to the dead body of a classmate, she's as willing as everyone else to write it off as a suicide. That is, until cryptic messages start coming in from someone who knows the truth, and they want Farris on the case. Putting her hacker skills to work, she begins to unravel the life of a victim who might just have been the guiltiest of them all. Her personal life in turmoil, Farris turns to the only person she can trust to help her get to the bottom of things—a friend on the verge of becoming much more. Together, they confront a killer with a secret not even she could have decoded. The biggest bombs, the ones that do the most damage, are the ones you never see coming.

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One brilliant young hacker. One experimental government aircraft. One chance to keep it all from going up in flames.

Still recovering from her troubled past, Farris is no stranger to change. But when the military transfers her father across the country to an experimental aircraft squadron, settling in to a new life is the least of her problems. As a series of apparent computer glitches threaten the security of the fleet and the blame falls on her father, she decides to put her computer skills to use digging up the truth. Soon she's drawn into the perilous world of a hacker who is determined to ground the fleet—at any cost.

When all signs lead to someone close to her as the mastermind, Farris will have to burn more than bridges to get to the truth. She will have to risk her fragile new life to uncover the identity of the cyber criminal before they can escalate from harmless tampering… to all out murder.

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Sherry is a full time writer from Colorado and the author of over a dozen novels for teens and young adults including the best selling Stolen Empire series. She can often be found browsing her local bookstore with a large white hot chocolate in one hand and a towering stack of books in the other. That is, unless she's on deadline at which time she, like the Loch Ness monster, is only seen in blurry photographs. Sherry also writes New Adult fiction under the pen name Ranae Glass and is a contributing writer for fangirlish.com.

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Playing with Fire by Sherry D. Ficklin Release Day Launch + Giveaway

Playing With Fire (#Hacker Series #1)
By Sherry D. Ficklin
Release Date 10/27/2015
Clean Teen Publishing
301 Pages

One brilliant young hacker.

One experimental government aircraft. 

One chance to keep it all from going up in flames. 

Still recovering from her troubled past, Farris is no stranger to change. But when the military transfers her father across the country to an experimental aircraft squadron, settling in to a new life is the least of her problems. As a series of apparent computer glitches threaten the security of the fleet and the blame falls on her father, she decides to put her computer skills to use digging up the truth. Soon she's drawn into the perilous world of a hacker who is determined to ground the fleet--at any cost.

When all signs lead to someone close to her as the mastermind, Farris will have to burn more than bridges to get to the truth. She will have to risk her fragile new life to uncover the identity of the cyber criminal before they can escalate from harmless tampering... to all out murder.

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Playing With Fire (Hacker #1) by Sherry D. Ficklin Review

Hey Readers! Ethan here with an exciting post for you all. As many of you will have seen throughout social media today, it's release day for one of my all-time favorite authors, Sherry D. Ficklin! Today I am so excited to be taking part in the blitz for this and then on Thursday I'll be sharing my stop on the blog tour. Who's excited!? I know I am. I am even more excited to share my review of this awesome novel with you all today. Before we get to my thoughts, here's a bit about the novel and our author:

One brilliant young hacker.
One experimental government aircraft.
One chance to keep it all from going up in flames.

Still recovering from her troubled past, Farris is no stranger to change. But when the military transfers her father across the country to an experimental aircraft squadron, settling in to a new life is the least of her problems. As a series of apparent computer glitches threaten the security of the fleet and the blame falls on her father, she decides to put her computer skills to use digging up the truth. Soon she’s drawn into the perilous world of a hacker who is determined to ground the fleet—at any cost.

When all signs lead to someone close to her as the mastermind, Farris will have to burn more than bridges to get to the truth. She will have to risk her fragile new life to uncover the identity of the cyber criminal before they can escalate from harmless tampering… to all out murder.

          

Sherry D. Ficklin

Sherry D. Ficklin is a full time writer from Colorado where she lives with her husband, four kids, two dogs, and a fluctuating number of chickens and house guests. A former military brat, she loves to travel and meet new people. She can often be found browsing her local bookstore with a large white hot chocolate in one hand and a towering stack of books in the other. That is, unless she’s on deadline at which time she, like the Loch Ness monster, is only seen in blurry photographs.

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*****

My Thoughts:

Sherry Ficklin. Oh my dear Queen of Literary Greatness. You’ve graced us with nearly every genre imaginable and crafted each passing tale to near perfection. With so many absolutely incredible stories under her belt, I found myself so excited to see what she could craft next. Coming off of the massively successful award-winning and best-selling Stolen Empire series, I was worried that her next work may not quite hit the bar. When I was first told the latest release would be a YA Science Fiction/Mystery novel, I won’t even lie and say I wasn’t a bit hesitant, but with Ficklin at the helm, I had no doubt it’d find a fan in me.

So how did it hold up?

I’ll go ahead and admit outright that this wasn’t my favorite Ficklin story to-date and it took me much longer to dive into Farris’ world than I would have liked. This story is a bit different than anything we’ve seen from Ficklin previously, but I promise if you stick with it, you definitely won’t regret it. The first novel in a series is always a rough one, creating the world, introducing the characters; it takes time. With the world laid out and the characters in play, once Ficklin was finally able to lay out the details and get the plot rolling, I couldn’t set this one down!

When Farris and her military father are transplanted to a new base on the east coast, Farris is anything but thrilled about the idea. As a high schooler, Farris only wants stability after hitting an extremely rough patch in her life. Struggling with the loss of her mother, Farris and her father settle into their new lives as a two-person family. Alone in a new place with nobody to turn to, Farris opens herself up for the first time since her mother’s passing and allows herself to be a teenager again. That in itself is an extremely emotional side of the story that Ficklin wrote beautifully. Putting these feels aside, we learn that Farris is about as nerdy as it comes and an absolute computer whiz to boot. A skilled Hacker, Farris is so much more than your average teenager girl. Full of brains, snark, and enough street smarts to be dangerous, Farris can be added to the list of amazing female characters crafted by Ficklin.

When strange happening begin around the base, it’s up to Farris and her new group of friends to crack the case before their world falls apart. In an environment when you never know what will happen tomorrow, Farris knows full well the weight of the task at hand. Her tech-savvy knowledge and crime-busting skills come in handy when she finds herself in the center ring of happening. Can she find her way out of trouble and find the culprit threatening their way of life in time?

With an incredible cast of characters, Ficklin really does an incredible job of capturing the contemporary present-day daily life of a teenager. Farris and her friends are written to near perfection and I found myself relating to them in so many ways (even if I’m no longer a teenager myself). I am really excited to see what Ficklin is able to accomplish with the next installment of this series.

I won’t ruin the plot for anyone, but I will say that this one kept me guessing from the very first page. Every time I thought I had the culprit figured out, Ficklin threw another wrench in my plan. It isn’t often that I find myself surprised by a plot twist in a novel, but Ficklin certainly got me with this one. It was one of those finales where I had to go back in the book and re-read certain passages to see how I missed it. The shock factor and action-packed finale is enough to satisfy any reader!

Action-packed and full of suspense and thrills, Ficklin has crafted a truly original work of young adult greatness. Playing with Fire is a much needed breath of fresh air to the genre. 

With all of this being said, I am so excited to be granting Playing With Fire a well-deserved 4-star review. While it may not be my favorite Ficklin story to-date, I still was extremely impressed with the finished product and it left me begging for more! I highly recommend this novel to readers of science fiction, mystery, and young adult novels. Add this series to your TBR today, you will not be disappointed!

*****

Alright readers, that's all I have for you today on the topic of Playing With Fire by the incredible Sherry D. Ficklin. I have no doubt that this series is going to be one to watch. Don't miss your chance to pick up your copy today. Don't forget to come back on Thursday where Sherry will be spilling her dream cast for this series in an exclusive blog tour post! Special thanks to the author and Clean Teen Publishing for providing me with an early ARC of this novel. Until next time, Happy Reading!

-Ethan