Spectacle
by S.J. Pierce
Genres: Science Fiction, Young Adult
Genres: Science Fiction, Young Adult
Synopsis:
***This is currently a web series!!! I’m releasing a chapter at a time on my website at www.sjpiercebooks.blogspot.com
Hunger Games meets Avatar meets Gladiator in this spellbinding new Young Adult Science-Fiction web series by bestselling author Susan James Pierce.
Fear can make you a target…
Two hundred years after the Great Disaster, the day earthquakes ravaged Earth’s landscapes, humanity has finally regrouped and is working toward a better future. But in New America – one of three small, remaining landmasses – the threat of overpopulation makes a better future seem bleaker by the year.
Mira (Mirabella) Foster and her parents are citizens of New America, and with the threat of starvation and disease looming on the horizon, a new discovery threatens to push everyone to the brink of chaos: blue markings develop on people’s skin. Markings that are distinctive of a humanoid alien race named Changers that secretly sought refuge on Earth years ago. Markings that allow them to camouflage their skin, but also make them feared, and eventually, targets of violence.
Mira’s dad is one of them.
Anger can make you a spectacle…
Banished to a treacherous, uninhabited island, a newly orphaned Mira and her kind struggle to survive and settle into a new way of life. Her main priority becomes seeing to Jackson’s care, her friend with Muscular Dystrophy, and tending to her garden as a way of distracting herself from the pain of losing everything she loved. But just as she’s adapting to this new life, their Elders approach her with a plan to insert themselves back into New America to uncover a conspiracy. A conspiracy, they believe, that includes the presidency and landed them on the island, costing many Changers their lives, including her parents’.
In a world where staying on the island means a possible untimely death, as does risking her life to uncover a horrible secret that might one day set them all free, which one will she choose? And if she chooses to help, can she tame her anger over their mistreatment long enough to make sure their plan goes off without a hitch? Because, after all, the last thing her kind needs is to make spectacles of themselves, and as she knows all too well, both anger and fear have a perilous knack for destruction.
Hunger Games meets Avatar meets Gladiator in this spellbinding new Young Adult Science-Fiction web series by bestselling author Susan James Pierce.
Fear can make you a target…
Two hundred years after the Great Disaster, the day earthquakes ravaged Earth’s landscapes, humanity has finally regrouped and is working toward a better future. But in New America – one of three small, remaining landmasses – the threat of overpopulation makes a better future seem bleaker by the year.
Mira (Mirabella) Foster and her parents are citizens of New America, and with the threat of starvation and disease looming on the horizon, a new discovery threatens to push everyone to the brink of chaos: blue markings develop on people’s skin. Markings that are distinctive of a humanoid alien race named Changers that secretly sought refuge on Earth years ago. Markings that allow them to camouflage their skin, but also make them feared, and eventually, targets of violence.
Mira’s dad is one of them.
Anger can make you a spectacle…
Banished to a treacherous, uninhabited island, a newly orphaned Mira and her kind struggle to survive and settle into a new way of life. Her main priority becomes seeing to Jackson’s care, her friend with Muscular Dystrophy, and tending to her garden as a way of distracting herself from the pain of losing everything she loved. But just as she’s adapting to this new life, their Elders approach her with a plan to insert themselves back into New America to uncover a conspiracy. A conspiracy, they believe, that includes the presidency and landed them on the island, costing many Changers their lives, including her parents’.
In a world where staying on the island means a possible untimely death, as does risking her life to uncover a horrible secret that might one day set them all free, which one will she choose? And if she chooses to help, can she tame her anger over their mistreatment long enough to make sure their plan goes off without a hitch? Because, after all, the last thing her kind needs is to make spectacles of themselves, and as she knows all too well, both anger and fear have a perilous knack for destruction.
All proceeds from pre-orders are going to a local kid named Brayden who has Muscular Dystrophy.
I lie in my bed and stare at the
ceiling. Dad covered them with glow-in-the-dark stars for my tenth birthday. I
think of leaving for the mountains and I’m filled with a mixture of agony and
relief. In a way, I don’t want to leave this place; memories of my father, as
painful as they can be, are everywhere and it’s all I have left of him now. But
in another, I want to start fresh, even if we have to live in huts or caves or
whatever they’re planning on doing. The thought unnerves me a little, like any
unknown thing, but it’ll be good for mom to leave here and be around others.
And I’ll be able to see Jacks and Luxxe more; I desperately need their company.
A knock on the front door startles me.
It was too loud to be Jacks or Luxxe. A man shouts through it, but I can’t make
out what he’s saying from here. Our dog is going wild.
Mom stirs on the couch and I wait to see
if she’ll get it.
The man shouts again, and her feet
patter my way. She finds me erect on the bed with my covers wrapped around me
in a cocoon. Her eyes are huge white saucers, and she presses her finger
against her lips to keep me quiet before she shuts my door and sprints away.
Alone in my room, I hide inside the
space between my bed and the wall and snatch a book of Robert Frost poems on my
nightstand, hugging it close for comfort. To distract myself, I try to recite The Road Not Taken but can’t focus
enough to do so. My heart gains speed as panic courses through me. Whoever is
on the other side of the door has her worried. Are we in danger? I’ve never
wanted my dad more than I do in this moment. This isn’t right. He should be
here to protect us. If I wasn’t so scared, I’d pay more attention to the anger
writhing inside me. I hope whoever took him from us is dead. I hope they’re
gone for what they did.
The man shouts louder this time and
bangs three times on the door. I still hear our dog, but where’s mom? I don’t
hear mom!
After an eternity, she shows up again
with a bag slung over her shoulder and points to my cracked window. She wants
to escape. But where would we go? I nod silently and stand, slipping the book
into my waistband.
A
loud bang rattles our apartment, and the living room door hurls into the
kitchen. Splinters of wood lie in its wake. In one swift movement, mom snatches
me by the arm and heaves the window open the rest of the way.
The thumping of loud boots fills our
apartment, and to keep from screaming out, I bite my tongue so hard it bleeds.
The men in uniforms, they’re here for us.
AUTHOR BIO:
Susan James Pierce has a degree in Marketing Management, works for a Fortune 500 company in Atlanta, Georgia, and devotes her precious, spare time to writing Fantasy, Paranormal and Sci-fi novels.
Please visit www.sjpiercebooks.blogspot.com and sign up for her mailing list or subscribe to her blog if you'd like to hear when new books come out! Coming soon:
Iris (Novella: The Captivated Series) Available now!!!
Fight for Me (Book Two: The Captivated Series)
Please visit www.sjpiercebooks.blogspot.com and sign up for her mailing list or subscribe to her blog if you'd like to hear when new books come out! Coming soon:
Iris (Novella: The Captivated Series) Available now!!!
Fight for Me (Book Two: The Captivated Series)
1 comments:
It sounds great! Thank you
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