Forsaken Media Kit
July 15th-August 4th, 2017
Book Information:
Title: Forsaken
Author: Connie Ann Michael
Release Date: May 23, 2017
ISBN: 9780997727890
Eighteen-year-old
Oli cannot remember life outside the barrier, a life before the oil spill that
poisoned human kind, killing half the population and infecting the other half
until they deteriorated from the inside out, forced to walk the earth as Screamers.
It’s a dangerous new world in which barely anyone makes it past the age of
twenty, and Oli’s time is running out.
Studying the Bible, Oli
searches for words to help restore faith in a lost world, and when she receives
a message from God telling her to leave the barrier, she knows what she must
do. There’s only one problem: Her best friend, Coi, doesn’t believe her, and
he’s showing the first signs of infection. But before she can convince him to
leave with her, the Governor quarantines Coi and orders his execution.
Oli risks it all to rescue
Coi, and they set out to find sanctuary away from the safety of the compound,
not knowing who or what will get to them first: the Governor, the illness, or
the Screamers. When they stumble upon a group of uninfected humans hidden among
the rubble of an apartment building, they think they’ve found their salvation.
But not everything is as it seems, and their enemies are closer than they
thought.
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Excerpt:
I didn’t want to
argue the fact that their need to survive was futile seeing as they were as
good as dead, infected with a sickness that if there was a chance of a cure, we
certainly didn’t have any way of finding it, but I also didn’t want to agree
with her. The Governor had been in control for a few short years, and words
used when discussing the methods he had for removing those who questioned him
had to be chosen more carefully these days.
Bliss stared out into
the growing darkness. "She didn’t do anything wrong."
"She
questioned," I said quietly.
"And is that so
wrong?"
I shook my head no,
but in my heart I knew it was dangerous to question the Governor and his
methods. I understood his need to control us. In the beginning, there was no
organization and mistakes were made that we continue to pay for today.
"She told the
guard she was too sick to work. She snuck out when they were watching the
gate." She glanced up at me. "She was with child." Her big eyes
blinked and a tear fell. "I would have had a cousin."
I opened my mouth to
respond, but words had left me. I wasn’t sure where to start on the list of
disturbing questions her words put in my head. The biggest being why she
thought her aunt had had a choice in her exile. Finally, I said, "I’m
sorry."
"It was her
terms not theirs." Bliss let out a long breath, releasing her negativity.
"Tell me something good." She wiped at her cheeks with one hand. Her
knuckles whitened as she gripped the fence tighter with the other. I placed my hand
over hers. When darkness fell completely and the Screamers became frenzied for
food, they would come for something as small as a finger. Even the smallest
scratch from their infected nails could cause the infection to spread.
"You’re here for
a reason. If you weren’t supposed to be here, you wouldn’t be," I said.
The rasps of the
Screamers were getting louder as the sky became fully dark and the rain began.
"Please,
Bliss," I whispered. "Please. Come to dinner with me."
One of the Screamers
came to us, head cocked to the left, jaws chomping at nothing. Bliss took a
step back, finally letting go of the fence.
The vacant eyes of
the walking corpses drew me in. Many called them lost souls, but they weren’t.
These were empty shells of people. People who’d been loved. I’d spent many
hours looking into the weeping, yellow eyes of the sick, trying to understand.
But when there is nothing in them, there’s nothing to find.
"Please," I
said again.
Bliss didn’t divert
her eyes from where they stared. "You can go, Oli."
"No. Come with
me."
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