Overview

Who says underdogs don't bite?

Twelve-year-old Jack Horwood has run from the pimp his mother sold him to, preferring to take his chances on the streets. A house with a cheerful red door – and a classic convertible out front – prompts him into a spot of breaking and entering, and soon he has a warm, dry basement to squat in.

Until the owner of the house, Jamaican hacker Rio Palmer, discovers his hideout. Rio offers him a safe place to stay, but Jack doesn’t believe a word the man says and runs.

Rio can’t forget the youngster who is scared and vulnerable, and stronger than many men Rio has met. Finding Jack is a tiny challenge. Teaching him to trust is like climbing a mountain. But when faced with a true zero and its power, Rio can do nothing else.

The Power of Zero is the first book in the Zero Rising trilogy, which traces Jack’s journey from a frightened, stubborn, homeless boy to a fiercely independent vigilante hacker.

Jackie Keswick was born behind the Iron Curtain with itchy feet, a bentfor rocks and a recurrent dream of stepping off a bus in the middle ofnowhere to go home. She's worked in a hospital and as the only girl with 52 men on an oil rig. She's spent a winter in Moscow and a summer inIceland and finally settled in the country of her dreams with a husband, a cat and a tandem.

Jackie writes fantasy, suspense, historical and paranormal stories. She loves unexpectedreunions and second chances, and men who make their own rules. She has a thing for green eyes and tightcyclist's butts and is a great believer in making up soundtracks foreverything, including her characters and the cat.

And she still hasn't found the place where the bus stops.