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The Tempest

Black Carbon #3

A.J. Scudiere

The Tempest - Black Carbon #3

Copyright © 2021 by AJ Scudiere

Griffyn Ink. All rights reserved. No part of this document may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

FIRST EDITION

Contents

Books by A.J.

A.J.’s Renegades

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Chapter 34

Chapter 35

Chapter 36

Chapter 37

Chapter 38

Chapter 39

Chapter 40

Chapter 41

Chapter 42

Chapter 43

Chapter 44

Chapter 45

Chapter 46

Chapter 47

Chapter 48

Chapter 49

Chapter 50

Chapter 51

Chapter 52

Chapter 53

Chapter 54

Chapter 55

Chapter 56

Chapter 57

Chapter 58

Chapter 59

Chapter 60

Chapter 61

Chapter 62

Chapter 63

Chapter 64

Chapter 65

Chapter 66

Chapter 67

Chapter 68

Chapter 69

Chapter 70

Chapter 71

Chapter 72

Chapter 73

About the Author

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Book 1 - Under Dark Skies

Book 2 - Fracture Five

Book 3 - The Atlas Defect

Book 4 - Echo and Ember

Book 5 - Salvage (A Shadow Files Novel)

Book 6 - Garden of Bone

Book 7 - The Camelot Gambit

Book 8 - Dead Tide

Book 9 - Sabotage (A Shadow Files Novel) (available 2020)

Black Carbon

Book 1 - The Hunted

Book 2 - The Surface

Book 3 - The Tempest

Book 4 - The Swarm

Legends

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FORTUNE (red)

FORTUNE (gray)

FORTUNE (Red & Gray)

The Vendetta Trifecta

Vengeance

Retribution

Justice

The Complete Vendetta Trifecta

Stand Alone Stories - Available on Kindle and Kindle Unlimited

Resonance

Dissonance - a companion novella to Resonance

God's Eye

Phoenix

The Shadow Constant

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Praise for A.J. Scudiere

"There are really just 2 types of readers—those who are fans of AJ Scudiere, and those who will be."

-Bill Salina, Reviewer, Amazon

For The Shadow Constant:

"The Shadow Constant by A.J. Scudiere was one of those novels I got wrapped up in quickly and had a hard time putting down."

-Thomas Duff, Reviewer, Amazon

For Phoenix:

"It's not a book you read and forget; this is a book you read and think about, again and again . . . everything that has happened in this book could be true.  That's why it sticks in your mind and keeps coming back for rethought."

-Jo Ann Hakola, The Book Faerie

This one is for all my pandemic friends. The Tempest is just one of several books I’ve written while on lockdown. Thank you for keeping me sane and for just being there. I hope we come out the other side okay. Because, honestly, we were all pretty nuts before we got shut inside our houses for a year.

Thank you.

It’s also for anyone who has survived a catastrophic weather event. Parts of Alabama are prone to twisters. The entire northeast was under water or snow a handful of years ago. Texas just had a deep freeze. Things are getting weird. If you’ve survived, then this one is for you. I admire your fortitude so much, I wrote a whole series about it.

Acknowledgments

Books like this require research. There was too much involved to name each person who helped. But thank you to everyone who’s traveled with me to help make this series more realistic. Thank you to everyone who shared stories of the twisters they’ve been through. You helped make this book better.

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The rumble sounded like a freight train bearing down on her as Joule drove along the virtually empty highway. Her head turned from side to side, looking for the threat. She’d been told that tornadoes were supposed to sound like trains, and that Alabama had tornadoes.

Her breathing shortened and her chest tightened, even as she tried to talk herself down. She scanned the skies and saw nothing. She should be safe.

Joule hated being ever-alert, but it had to be some level of post-traumatic stress. Lord knew, she’d had enough trauma in her life.

The flashing red light signaled a four-way stop, and as the large, dirty white pickup loomed to her right, she saw that the driver seemed wholly unconcerned with whatever disaster was bearing down on them.

Why had she gone to pick up supplies by herself?

Unable to linger at the intersection and assume she was safe if she sat still, she took the ninety-degree right-hand turn with her breath held.

“Are you kidding me?” she yelled into the empty space in the car, to the groceries sitting in too many plastic bags, to the flashing red lights and long, wooden signal arms crossing the road.

It had sounded like a freight train because it was one.

With her foot on the brake, Joule breathed at least a little easier as the red and white-striped bars came to a rest and the small motion toward her right grew into the oncoming engine and the probably thousand cars that it was towing at high speed.

The train was going to take a while and the grocery store had already been far enough away to make her worry about the ice cream melting. The prolonged stop turned her worry to certainty. If she had a spoon, she’d dig the ice cream out of the bag and eat it now, so that at least someone got to enjoy it.

Instead, she watched the cars whizz by and turned the radio on, hopping through the stations.

Country.

Country.

Christian.

Country.

Metal.

Sighing, she went back to one of the country stations. There were a few country songs she liked, and the back beyond of Alabama was not going to be the place to find an alt-rock station.

For a moment, she contemplated the nerves and jitters that came with starting a new job. She

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