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SHE JUST WANTS TO ESCAPE FROM BEING HUNTED!
Her name was Aliyah. Her power was love, and his duty. It is what kept them alive. "If my love cannot overpower your duty, nor your duty my love - In the name of love, my name is Aliyah Destiny Demonica!" And she jumped. "No!" he howled as he dove for her, but They had already snatched her away into Nothingness, giving them the power in the knowing of her name, as it echoed throughout infinite miles of the emptiness.
Aliyah, the only human to travel the Otherland, the Lightness, the Darkness, the Nothingness, and the Forbidden. The Bylaws forbade any human that found their way there from ever returning, but since childhood, she's been able to resist their restraints and roam freely. Hunted in Otherworld. Hunted in Otherland. No memories of her travels, but something kept her going back.
She'd crossed the Forbidden, but only in that crossing did she set the path.
His duty was to protect her. He knew that now. And so he stepped into the Nothingness, of the purest of black and the starkest of silence, knowing that he'd never return in the absence of her. One could perceive that she'd been consumed by the Nothingness, but it only takes one to disperse of none, just as one microscopic mass will demolish the empty. And now there were two.
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Her name was Aliyah. Her power was love, and his duty. It is what kept them alive. "If my love cannot overpower your duty, nor your duty my love - In the name of love, my name is Aliyah Destiny Demonica!" And she jumped. "No!" he howled as he dove for her, but They had already snatched her away into Nothingness, giving them the power in the knowing of her name, as it echoed throughout infinite miles of the emptiness.
Aliyah, the only human to travel the Otherland, the Lightness, the Darkness, the Nothingness, and the Forbidden. The Bylaws forbade any human that found their way there from ever returning, but since childhood, she's been able to resist their restraints and roam freely. Hunted in Otherworld. Hunted in Otherland. No memories of her travels, but something kept her going back.
She'd crossed the Forbidden, but only in that crossing did she set the path.
His duty was to protect her. He knew that now. And so he stepped into the Nothingness, of the purest of black and the starkest of silence, knowing that he'd never return in the absence of her. One could perceive that she'd been consumed by the Nothingness, but it only takes one to disperse of none, just as one microscopic mass will demolish the empty. And now there were two.
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‘I’d spent my life fighting for those I was loyal to. Now, I just wanted to run so that my losses would never catch up to me. I never wanted to feel again. Everyone else had wound up together. I’d wound up alone. Finally, I felt the anger, right down to the core of me, shaking me, escaping in a scream so loud and so fierce it sounded nothing like me. I wanted to avenge my losses so that I could know it was all worthwhile, and everything I’d done and sacrificed would be worth it. This was far from over. I wanted revenge!’
Catina Salsbury returns in this action-packed dystopian thriller series (The Modules). Five years since The Reform, she’s intent on freeing everyone she can from The Modules, and figuring out those responsible for Intelligent Design, so that she can take them down for once and for all, while also wanting to fulfill her dream of being united with her twin sister, Kadrin, again, and finally being able to be with her childhood love, Charlie. Unfortunately, her loyalties to the cause and those she loves collide. Not just for her, but them as well. Catina’s determined to have both, regardless of the sacrifices she has to make, but so are they. READ A FREE SAMPLE CHAPTER BY CLICKING HERE. |
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.”
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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.”
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THE THIRD BOOK IN THE MODULES SERIES, INTELLIGENT DESIGN, AVAILABLE DIGITAL AT http://www.amazon.com/dp/B013O9GS18
and PAPERBACK
and PAPERBACK
“How many years had I hated my father because I thought he had betrayed us, betrayed me? His paranoia, words, and teachings all a symptom of his mental illness; a mental illness he never had. They had controlled my suspicions the same way, by using the fear that I would wind up like my father if I didn’t keep it contained, hidden, buried deep inside me - the truth. The truth I had always known.
My Dad may not have been able to save himself. He may not have been able to save Marathon, NY, or all the areas the parents that attended Kadrin’s ceremony had come from, but he was going to save all the rest of the lives, and he saved mine. My heart had been dead for so long. Now it was alive and beating strong. Cat! His legacy, to finish what he’d begun! Published successfully, it read. I turned the computer off, then backtracked through the woods. I tossed the computer into the Fountain. Sighing, I threw my phone in after the computer and returned to the Hole to come up with a name for my new baby brother. A child without a birth certificate or a social security number. A child that, to the government, didn’t exist. What they didn’t know could hurt them. I’d make sure of it.” INTELLIGENT DESIGN FREE SAMPLE CHAPTER 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. THE REFORM FREE SAMPLE CHAPTER. |
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
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THE PATH THAT NO ONE FOLLOWS
To love deeply without conditions is by the far the greatest weakness and fault one can have in this day and age, within a society that prides itself on efficiency, productivity, and self-sufficiency. It is like being born with a preference for peace and pacifism in a country that is always at war. Coming into a thriving booming economy piss poor. It is being the only black person in a town that is white. Being raised in utopia with an instinctual urge to fight. Operating in the heartless mafia with a heart full of remorse. Withholding a perspective of choice in a society that dominates by force. It is being the only female amidst a navy of men, unable to conform to the present population trend. A world of stripes while remaining a spot. Preferring the cold in a climate so hot. One cannot feel wanted unless they belong. One must conform in order to get along. But an Albino in Texas will not fare well at all, as my nature to love so deeply is my greatest downfall. READ MORE
To love deeply without conditions is by the far the greatest weakness and fault one can have in this day and age, within a society that prides itself on efficiency, productivity, and self-sufficiency. It is like being born with a preference for peace and pacifism in a country that is always at war. Coming into a thriving booming economy piss poor. It is being the only black person in a town that is white. Being raised in utopia with an instinctual urge to fight. Operating in the heartless mafia with a heart full of remorse. Withholding a perspective of choice in a society that dominates by force. It is being the only female amidst a navy of men, unable to conform to the present population trend. A world of stripes while remaining a spot. Preferring the cold in a climate so hot. One cannot feel wanted unless they belong. One must conform in order to get along. But an Albino in Texas will not fare well at all, as my nature to love so deeply is my greatest downfall. READ MORE
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