Shades of Mercy by Bruce Borgos: Cover Reveal

A Note from Bruce Borgos

Welcome to the Nevada desert – where prickly plants shoot out of the hard ground like needles and government installations watch everything that moves, where drought-stricken land becomes angry fuel for wildfires that bleed red into the azure sky. 

This cover perfectly depicts the physical elements of Shades of Mercy. In its center, where smoke and stratosphere collide, the color is almost gray, and gray is a place Porter Beck knows well. Years in dark corners of the world have taught him to navigate the haze.  

A quick glance at this beautiful graphic tells you this is a story about high-tech secrets, and that things are not what they seem. Enter sixteen-year-old hacker, Mercy Vaughn, currently incarcerated at the local youth center. Is it possible she holds the key to the county’s current chaos? 

Old friends and new relations, a Fourth of July with fireworks that could spark a war, and a sheriff whose only way to see in the night is with a killer instinct. With a Mexican drug cartel and Chinese spies in town, the question comes down to this: Will Mercy be his undoing or his savior? 

Preorder Shades of Mercy here!

About Shades of Mercy by Bruce Borgos:

On the night of July 4th, Sheriff Porter Beck sees a strange light streak across the dark sky and prays it won’t land in drought-stricken Lincoln County, where the wildfires are already burning. But it does, and the resultant explosion triggers an avalanche of death and destruction in the high desert, impacting Beck’s oldest friend, the community at large, and even his sure-shot sister, Brinley.

Looking for answers leads Beck to sixteen-year-old tech-whiz, Mercy Vaughn, currently incarcerated at the local youth center. He senses the young hacker may be more than she claims to be, but a Mexican drug cartel and the People’s Republic of China also have a stake in determining her real identity.

The body count is just getting started…

…Find out where it stops on July 16, 2024!