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Four different kids, four different ages, four different lifestyles, but there is one thing they all have in common: A situation they want to escape from.
Max Connor is 14 years old. At school, he’s a bully. At his trailer park, poverty-stricken home, he’s a victim of an alcoholic mother and an ever-worsening abusive father. Diane Rockway is the 15 year old daughter of her upper class political conservative father and lawyer mother. She is voted most popular at school until she winds up accidently pregnant. Her parents don’t want the scandal and will stop at nothing to make the ‘problem’ go away. James Doe is a 10 year old orphan who has spent his life bouncing from one foster care to the next, until his rebellious personality gets him transferred to a group home for boys. He’s tired of being unwanted and unloved, so he takes off on his own. Zoe Summers, 12 years old, lives with her father and two siblings, after her mother left when she was young. At school, though smart, she is deemed the weird girl. At home, she is responsible for all the things her mother once was, but she can’t meet all the father’s expectations, just like her mother couldn’t, nor does she want to any longer. Alone, they are stuck and helpless in being minors without rights, but when all their paths cross one day, their desperate needs outweigh their extraordinary differences, and they become the most unexpected of friends when they come across an abandoned 1800’s schoolhouse. No matter what happens or how difficult things get, they are bound by the pact they made. “We’re either all in this together, or we’re not in it at all.” READ A SAMPLE CHAPTER FOR FREE |
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SAMPLE CHAPTER THE MODULES
Cat, here, but you can call me Catina. Boy, do I have a story to tell you. I’m 16 now. I don’t know if I’ll make it to 17, now that I went from being the very model of a new man-made era of Intelligent Design with the highest global IQ for ages 12-18, to top priority on the Modules’ to-kill list. The tests keep saying I have a personality glitch, regardless of my intelligence, and none of their techniques work on me. I’m unpredictable and I can’t be controlled. State recruiters came when we were 12 to take my twin sister and me from our homes and take over our guardianship. Following Junior School graduation, Kadrin and I would up on two different buses. I’m one of the only Purple’s remaining. It doesn’t matter that I excelled, or quadrupled my learning, or can do things that other people can’t. I found the formula, the one they desperately need. They’ve taken everything from me, but I can’t die. I can’t. I need to save my twin sister, Kadrin, who was programmed against me. I need to save my only boyfriend, Charlie, who doesn’t even know who I am anymore. I need to save the world, because the only way they can have their Intelligent Design is if they do something foolish, like try to wipe out all the people they think are ignorant. CLICK HERE to read a sample chapter for FREE |
MONSTER DOWN THE STREET
There’s a monster that lives in an old, scary house that lives down the street from Carrie and Joann. It lives in the dark, eating spare spiders and beetles and bugs. It has fangs and walks on four claws with long, sharp fingernails crusted with blood. A rusty swing set in the overgrown yard is used to lure the little children into its lair because its most delectable meal is kids. Or so they say. Doing what no child has ever dared before, Carrie and Joann will never forget the events that followed once knocking on that old, wooden door. Click here to read for FREE. |
Sample Chapter the Reform
I always knew I was different from others. School came way easily, but friends did not. My sister Kadrin and I were the worst twins ever. The identical stopped at our physical characteristics. But that aside, I had my best friend, Charlie, and I was my conspiracy theorist Dad’s favorite. My life wasn’t bad and my future seemed promising . . . until the Reform. Following 6th grade graduation, the State took over our guardianship and our education, taking us from the only homes we’d ever known, in order to provide us with a distraction-free environment . . . and control every inch of our lives. We were poked, prodded, experimented on, and had to endure test after test after test. Our future depended on those tests, or rather the tests determined every aspect of our lives, present and future, for the rest of our lives. Click here to read sample chapter.
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