Sentence Sneak Peek - Fly Into Fire

Fly Into Fire by Susan Jane Bigelow

The first sentence from each chapter of Fly Into Fire, it's a mini summary of what you can expect to read.

* Spoilers are highlighted like so :)
* Book won from Candlemark & Gleam

"UNION TOWER, SLENDER AND FORTY STORIES tall, dominated the skyline of Queens: a landmark in a city that had precious few of them left."

"THEY HATED HIM, AND SOME PART OF HIM knew he deserved it."

"THE BLUE STAR SEERA BEAT DOWN MERCILESSLY on Sky Ranger’s bare, tanned shoulders as he flew his morning patrol."

"THE DAYS WERE LONG AND SWELTERING."

"THE RÄTON BUILDING TURNED OUT TO BE just a large, circular room with a few pieces of broken, dusty equipment scattered around on the floor."

"SKY RANGER SAT ALONE, EXHAUSTED, IN THE middle of the desert."

"SKY RANGER WOKE IN A COOL, DRY, DIMLY lit place, and for a moment thought he was back in his rooms in Union Tower."

"RENNA AND TWENTY-THREE OTHER REFUGEES sat crammed knee to knee and back to back in the tiny hold of the Confederation Fleet patrol ship Semper Idem, while the soldiers who had captured them watched them through win-dows and cameras."

"PENNY KNELT IN SANDI'S GARDEN, EXAMINING the fragile plants for any signs of the voracious buglike critters that had been eating the tomato crop."

"SKY RANGER AGAIN SAT AT BROUSSARD'S table, drinking a thin tea that the old man had gleefully ex-plained was made by straining hot water through thin strips of lyski moss."

"RENNA PACED; FIRST ONE SIDE OF THE CELL, then the other."

"THEY RAN FOR WHAT FELT LIKE MILES, until finally they collapsed from exhaustion."

"LIEUTENANT BRIAN GANNETT GENTLY LOWERED the ship onto the forest floor."

"RENNA DREAMED OF FIRE."

"PAINFULLY BRILLIANT ORANGE-RED LIGHT streamed in from the viewports as Calvasna’s ancient sun set over the brown, blue, and white ball below."

"HYLAR GORDON BRIETS HAD ONCE BEEN THE United Nations Party chairman for the city of Melbourne, and because of that, he was one of the highest authorities among the refugees on Reilis."

"DEE STRAINED TO FOCUS ON SOMETHING, any-thing, as she faded in and out of consciousness."

"BROUSSARD AND FELIPE LIVED A LITTLE TO the south of the city proper, in a tent on the beach."

"NO," SAID EMILY."

"A NONDESCRIPT, LIGHT-BROWN-HAIRED YOUNG woman walked quietly through the empty streets of Confederation City’s Centre District."

"DEE PICKED AT HER FOOD, TRYING NOT TO shiver."

"PENNY TOOK THE LONG WAY BACK, FLYING ONLY when she had to clear a barrier, and where no one could possibly see."

"EMILY , SKY RANGER, AND PENNY SAT, EXHAUSTED, on a hillside deep in the Calvasnan countryside."

"JILL KNELT OVER JAMES, RELEASING WHAT little energy she had into his system."

"SKYE'S MISSING, TOO,” SAID BROUSSARD GRIMLY."

"HELLO, JILL,” SAID THE PINCH-FACED WOMAN in white."

"SKY RANGER SWUNG WILDLY IN PANIC AND rage, and missed."

"MONICA RANG THE BELL, HUMMING ANXIOUSLY."