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Treason,
betrayal, and heartbreak.
A lot can happen to a girl between her first kiss and
her first kill.
It’s 100 years since the Genetic
Integrity Act was passed and America
When 16-year-old Jess begins to show
signs of deviance she enlists in the Special Forces, with her best friend Jay,
in a desperate bid to evade detection by the Devotees. Jess is good with data,
not so good with a knife. So when the handsome and secretive Sergeant Matt
Anderson selects her for his Black Ops squad, Jess is determined to figure out
why.
As her deviance continues to change
her, Jess is forced to decide who to trust with her deadly secret. Jess needs
to know what’s really out there, in the Deviant wasteland over the border, if
she has any hope of making it to her 17th birthday. Because if the enemy
doesn’t kill her first, the Department of Evolution probably will.
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Prologue:
I
haven't slept in forty-eight hours.
It's
part of the Special Operations Assessment and Selection course, twenty-eight
days of grueling work. The two days of no sleep are meant to disorient us, part
of discarding our former selves. There are three hundred of us trying to figure
out how to do what we're told, when we're told to, and how to do it correctly.
Jay and I weren't assigned to the same platoon, which was unexpected. I’m in
the “civilian” platoon; we’re the ones with skills that don’t generally require
brute force. I think Jay is in some kind of elite group because I haven’t seen
him, I’ve only seen the G-men platoon. They are all about brute force; they’re
the ones that opted for genetic enhancement at age thirteen without the
supervision of the Devotees. But Special Forces is, well, special, so they have
to prove they’ve got more than muscle and I’ve gotta prove I’ve got more than a
quick mind.
If
I don't make it to Special Forces, my life expectancy in the regular army could
be pretty short. And if I’m a complete washout, I’ll have to go to my
assessment with the Devotees and they’ll find out about me, making my life
expectancy even shorter. I seriously need to pass.
Zero
dark thirty is when I have to haul myself out of bed in the so-called morning.
My drill sergeant has been yelling at me for most of the past two days. The
word “why” has been surgically removed from everyone's vocabulary. Any
individual hesitation in following orders means at least one private is getting
smoked, if not the whole platoon, which usually means push-ups. We've done a
lot of push-ups. I stare straight ahead as the drill sergeant walks by me and
continues down the row of privates. I made the mistake of “eyeballing” him
yesterday.
Never.
Eyeball. A drill sergeant.
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About Deborah Rix: Deborah Rix’s favourite
position for reading a book is head almost hanging off the couch and feet up in
the air with legs against the back of the couch. She’s been reading too much
from Scientific American for research and ideas and needs to get back to some
fiction. She has a long standing love of science fiction, some of
her favourite authors include William Gibson, Philip K Dick, Kurt Vonnegut Jr,
Douglas Adams, Iain M Banks. A bit old school.
Deborah enjoyed a successful career in entertainment publicity, live
music promotion and event management. Which means she slogged through muddy
fields for music festivals, was crammed into concert halls with too many sweaty
teenage boys and got to go to Tuktoyaktuk (that’s in the Arctic
Circle ) for a Metallica concert. She lives with her family in Toronto , Canada
Visit her website at www.DeborahRix.com.
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