Ruby City - Astrid Cole

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Résumé :
Nineteen-year-old Ruby Kilstrong gets to attend Diamond City's most prestigious college, study history, eat pizza, and play fastball in her free time-which she is not so great at. On top of that, she gets to live at the palace with Allseer Louis Kilstrong like royalty. The only downside is she can't remember her life past the last year. Unfortunately for Ruby, amnesia is the least of her worries when a notorious gang called the Scarfaces launches an attack on her city. She is forced to escape with classmates who claim there is more to Ruby than meets the eye. Not only does she know her way around a sword, but she bears a striking resemblance to the legendary Sage Arpine, who united Diamond City's four districts many years ago. In the escape, Ruby meets one of Sage's nephews and learns that the likeness might not be a coincidence after all. Regardless of her past, Ruby has survivors to defend and an abandoned town to secure. With the help of some age-old allies, Ruby learns to fight and toughen up in the face of the deadly Scarfaces. Becoming the hero is no easy feat, though, and she is nowhere near the warrior Sage used to be. Before all goes to hell, Ruby can run away and start a new life. But does she really want to ignore the role Louis played in her amnesia and the husband and twin sons who have been waiting for Sage to wake up from her hibernation? It'd be the easy way out. ...

Biographie:
Astrid Cole developed her love for writing in her senior year in high school. It all started when she and a friend collaborated on a vampire novel, since Twilight was the hot movie in 2009. Although that first novel was just for fun, Astrid never stopped writing even when she started Miami-Dade College in 2009. Amidst her goal to get into medical school, she came up with tons of science fiction thrillers that she'd write for fun when she wasn't studying. A few years later, she realized that medical school wasn't for her and that it was time to start honing her craft as a writer. At Florida International University, she switched to an English major. There, she got to read literatures from a variety of time periods and her favorite poet was Edmund Spencer (way better than Shakespeare). She thought of publishing her first novel in 2012, but quickly realized she wasn't ready and kept writing stories on the side.In 2013, she started getting into fitness and competed in her first (and only) bodybuilding show just two years later. Winning third place qualified her for states, but she loved eating too much to compete again. Instead, she focused on running, completing a half-marathon in 2017, and then powerlifting, which she does for fun. After she got her master's in English Literature in 2021, she started reading more fantasy and science fiction and tried her hand at publishing once more. Since then, she's been working on the Diamond City trilogy and plans to revisit earlier novels for publication....

Sommaire:
Astrid Cole developed her love for writing in her senior year in high school. It all started when she and a friend collaborated on a vampire novel, since Twilight was the hot movie in 2009. Although that first novel was just for fun, Astrid never stopped writing even when she started Miami-Dade College in 2009. Amidst her goal to get into medical school, she came up with tons of science fiction thrillers that she'd write for fun when she wasn't studying. A few years later, she realized that medical school wasn't for her and that it was time to start honing her craft as a writer. At Florida International University, she switched to an English major. There, she got to read literatures from a variety of time periods and her favorite poet was Edmund Spencer (way better than Shakespeare). She thought of publishing her first novel in 2012, but quickly realized she wasn't ready and kept writing stories on the side.In 2013, she started getting into fitness and competed in her first (and only) bodybuilding show just two years later. Winning third place qualified her for states, but she loved eating too much to compete again. Instead, she focused on running, completing a half-marathon in 2017, and then powerlifting, which she does for fun. After she got her master's in English Literature in 2021, she started reading more fantasy and science fiction and tried her hand at publishing once more. Since then, she's been working on the Diamond City trilogy and plans to revisit earlier novels for publication....