Genre: YA Scifi
Release date: January 24th 2017
Inkspell Publishing
When romance turns deadly…
Jadeite’s perfect world comes crashing down on
her. In the futuristic world of United Society, her only problem has been how
to act around the cute boy on the air shuttle. But Jadeite’s world changes when
she comes across a man who looks alarmingly like her father. Clones were
declared illegal years ago. When she sees her father, a robotic engineer,
headed to the Dark Edge of United Society, she follows him and uncovers her
father’s secret life.
Jadeite shadows her father past the boundary of
United Society and into a primitive world of canyons and high deserts. She
learns her father is a Ridge Runner passing between the two worlds. Even more
alarming, she discovers her younger brother, Malachite, is sick and requires
medicine only available from over the Ridge. After her father is arrested,
Jadeite takes his place in order to save her brother’s life.
But her world turns even more precarious after
she breaks up with her obsessive boyfriend, Mattie. Jadeite soon learns his
threats are more than words, and she finds her life is in jeopardy.
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Jadeite glanced around at the people huddled
together in small clusters. That’s when she realized the spot where they’d
slept was empty. Malachite had vanished.
She scanned the room, but he was nowhere in sight.
He was not in the alcove to her right. What if he’d gone outside? Her stomach
twisted. She wouldn’t put anything past Malachite. She hurried to the main
entrance, where a small group of men remained. She was about to turn back when
one man stepped aside. Malachite slipped through the middle of the hunters, his
curiosity drawing him on.
Halfway to the mouth of the cave, she grabbed his
arm and jerked him backward. She cupped his mouth because their safety depended
on not being detected. About to whisper in his ear, she saw the man closest to
the entrance wave everyone back. Jadeite drew her brother against the wall.
Dark figures passed the cave. It took a moment to
realize what she was seeing, what she’d only read about in government classes:
the Legionnaires, the warrior division of androids. She’d never actually seen a
picture of them. She clapped both hands over Malachite’s mouth, his eyes wide
as Ruby’s pancakes.
Marching single file, armored droids explored the
bottom of the cliff. The head of one warrior pivoted, its elongated nose
blending with its mouth in a long reptilian snout, its red heat-seeking eyes
ablaze before it faced forward again.
Jadeite held her breath. Finally, the small
exploration group had passed. “Are you trying to get us killed?” she whispered
to her brother. A hunter grasped her arm and pointed outside.
A warrior droid swept past the cave. Another
followed. It paused and a black telescopic arm extended near the mouth of the
cave. Zap. A streak of electricity found its mark, and a high-pitched squeal
sounded.
Jadeite's
Journey Trailer from Lucinda Stein on
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A school librarian for over twenty years, Stein now writes
fulltime. Sanctuary: Family, Friends, & Strangers was a 2015 Colorado Book
Award finalist. Three Threads Woven, was a 2010 WILLA Finalist. Her story,
Sulfur Springs, won First Place in the 2011 LAURA Short Fiction competition.
Her stories have appeared in Pooled Ink, The South Dakota Review, Fine Lines,
and Women Writing the West online.
When not writing, she hikes desert canyons and alpine trails. She loves
anything vintage, her shelter-rescued dog, Opie, and, most of all, her husband,
Rob.
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