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I’m in such a good mood, here’s a whole paragraph from Mercury:
Reid sat in the dingy vinyl chair next to my hospital bed. He leaned forward with his elbows on his knees, watching me with exhausted wariness. My head ached as though I’d been hit with a heavy object, but the heat was gone. I moved my head to the side and immediately groaned. “What happened?”
An insight into the kind of research I have to do when writing my series:
Benjamin’s family actually does own an HR consulting firm! It’s a front business for their real business, but for tax reasons they keep the front up and running, and it pulls in about half a million dollars in profit a year. It’s called Trent Solutions, and they hire trained HR specialists to deal with the problems that people contact Trent Solutions about. This is the company that Janice was referring to when she offered Jillian a job in Ignite.
There’s a part in Mercury where we read a newspaper clipping from 1979. In it, it mentions Mr. Trent’s company. Here’s the tricky part: “Trent Solutions” is a very 21st century name. So instead of slipping in a slight anachronism, I called up my parents, who were my age in the 1970s, and asked them what such a business would be called.
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Article in the Washington Post’s Style section, dated March 11, 1979.
Janice L. Lewis Marries Henry B. Trent
Janice L. Lewis of Middleburg, Va. and Henry B. Trent of Annapolis, Md. were married on March 9, at the historic Oatlands Plantation located in Loudoun County, Va. The Reverend Scott Laarson officiated.
Janice, 24, is the daughter of the Dr. and Mrs. John Lewis, also of Middleburg. She is a graduate of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., where she studied Journalism. She is the granddaughter of Mr. Benjamin Lewis, noted D.C. businessman and founder of the Lewis Foundation, and his wife, Leah. She is also the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Stanhope, of Manassas, Va.
Henry, 28, is the son of the late Mr. Franklin Trent and Mrs. Eleanor Trent, also of Annapolis. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., where he studied business. Henry is employed in his family’s business, Trent Consultants.
Clara Lewis, sister of the bride, served as maid of honor. Bridesmaids were Erin Lewis, sister of the bride, Alexandra Edge, Ashlynn Peery, Danielle Snider, and Amber-Jean Hensey. Flower girl was Katherine Lewis, cousin of the bride. Michael Lewis, brother of the bride, and Franklin Trent III, twin brother of the groom, were best men. Ring bearer was Adam Rowe, a friend of both families. Janice wore a custom-designed wedding gown by Chanel, and carried a bouquet of cream and red roses.
The rehearsal dinner and reception, hosted by the groom’s parents, was held at their home.
The couple will honeymoon in the UK, France, Switzerland, and Croatia, then reside in Annapolis.
Brother against brother. Superhero against superhero. His wife has been kidnapped, and now he must decide how far down the road of vengeance he can go.
Benjamin, codename Mercury, is a member of an elite superhero team. Jillian, his wife, has been kidnapped by his soulless brother, Beau. With her life hanging in the balance, now it’s fight or die. Beau believes Jillian knows the whereabouts of JM-104, a compound that renders superpowers worthless, and to weaken his enemies he’s determined to make her talk by any means necessary. Benjamin must risk his life to save her, and then he must destroy what’s left of the JM-104.
But it won’t be so easy. When Benjamin’s team heads after the JM-104 with a ticking clock hanging over their heads, a team of superheroes who specialize in killing other superheroes will be right there waiting for them, just as brother goes against brother with Jillian caught in the middle. In the face of overwhelming odds, will they save Jillian and destroy the biggest threat to their existence? Or will the long arm of hate reach into Benjamin’s heart and destroy everything he holds dear?
Fans of Jessica Jones and Arrow will love Emerald Dodge’s Mercury, a fast-paced thrill ride across the world of superheroes and supervillains.
Pick up your copy today and enjoy the shocking finale of the Battlecry series!
This is the theme song of the huge showdown fight in Mercury. I was pleasantly surprised that not only is it thematically appropriate to where Benjamin is by chapter twenty-six, but it even references the little motto Benjamin adopted: “keep moving forward.”
Oh, my eyes are seein’ red
Double vision from the blood we’ve shed
The only way I’m leavin’ is dead
That’s the state of my (state of my) state of my head
Wide Spread Interests 