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When evil and darkness try to take over the world, there is one organization there to stop them - the Regional Office. Led by the mysterious Oyemi and her team of Oracles, their ultra-elite female assassins are protecting the globe from mayhem and destruction. But someone on the inside wants to bring it down. And now the Regional Office is under attack.   Rose is a young assassin who has been recruited by a defector from the Office to lead the attack. The Office's first line of defence is Sarah, a young woman who was taken in by the Office when her mother disappeared and who also happens to have a mechanical arm. Over the course of the attack, Rose and Sarah’s stories will collide and their worlds will never be the same. The Regional Office is Under Attack , by Manuel Gonzales, is a fun and unique novel that will have readers hooked from the very first page right to the last. Based on the description of this book it is something I didn’t think I would ever have any int...

As Bill Masen lies in a hospital bed, bandages over his eyes, he misses the most spectacular meteor shower anyone has ever seen.  But the next morning, he realizes that something happened over night that no one saw coming. After removing the bandages, he finds that everyone who witnessed the meteor shower has mysteriously gone blind.  As the masses wander the city in hopes of finding answers, he searches for others like him and happens upon a woman named Josella, who also still has her sight.  As they try to leave the city, it becomes clear that the world they knew is no more. But the loss of sight has given opportunity to a new threat - the Triffids.  These strange plants that began to appear throughout the world years earlier can pull up their roots from the ground to walk.  At over seven feet tall, they can kill a person with one quick lash.  And now, with humans unable to keep them at bay, they are poised to take over the world. The Day o...