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  Book 3 Rise of the Harlequin

  In Book Three, violence sweeps the Territories as the Black Nation continues to bite at Asheva’s heels, along with Cestia, the fallen Red Princess. Cestia has to rise above her own personal tragedy to uncover the truth about the Chromes, the Harlequins and Asheva. Asheva, in the mean time, caught between the wrath of revenge and the desire for love, needs to fight his own demons.

  Together, Cestia and Asheva vow to rise and fight the darkness that has taken hold of their world. And they do this first in the Twin Cities, where the Orange and Yellow Chromes live and where divisions are not only based on the color of the Chrome…

  The Red Harlequin Series

  About the Author

  Roberto Ricci is a fiction novel, short story and screenplay writer. He is best known for The Red Harlequin, his bestselling YA Fantasy series. The series has been translated in French and adapted into graphic novels. A TV project is currently in the making.

  During his long and varied career Roberto has worked as a journalist, been an officer in the Italian Army and a Senior Executive at Rainbow, a leading children’s entertainment company. He has lived in Tokyo, New York, Rome, Milan, Paris, and London and attended NYU and the European Business School.

  You can follow him on Amazon at:

  www.amazon.com/author/robertoricci

  The following books and ebooks are also available from the same author:

  The Black Nation

  The Wheel of Chance

  The graphic novel adaptation of the Red Harlequin Book series! Now, your favorite fantasy series is also available as a graphic novel series. Each volume is 50 pages long and in full color.

  2016: Stories from the near future

  A collection of short stories from the not too distant future.

  What if social networks suddenly turned from inclusive to exclusive? Where is all the huge amount of data that we produce daily going to be stored? Will we become virtually eternal? All this and more in 2016! A humorous (and slightly dark) view of the near future!

  Parablu

  Level 10

  Sweet Dreams Inc.

  In the year 2016…

  …Anamast, a leading Search Engine Corporation, will sponsor an innovative virtual school program for children of all ages. But alas, innovation does not come without minor collateral damages. Fortunately Anamast will have a solution for that too: a blue liquid called Parablu.

  …All social networks will merge into one and become known as Society. Society will stop being inclusive and start being exclusive. Users will be associated with a Level to define their personal and professional status. Changing one’s profile will become almost impossible unless you are able to take part in the nation’s favorite game show: Level 10.

  … Sweet Dreams Inc. will be the market leader for “virtual transfers”, consisting in the physical termination of human beings and in the migration of their existence onto the corporation’s servers, making their customers virtually yours, forever.

  Copyright

  The Red Harlequin - Book 2 Kingdom of Deceit

  © 2013 Roberto Ricci

  Published by Pantomimus Media Ltd.

  ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. This book contains material protected under International and Federal Copyright Laws and Treaties. Any unauthorized reprint or use of this material is prohibited. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system without express written permission from the author.

  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

  Cover Illustrations by Pascal Demure.