AUTHOR: Lindsay Leggett
Publication date:
April 1st 2013
Genre: YA Science
Fiction
SYNOPSIS:
The
first rule of survival in the Underground: When you’re outside, keep
your eyes on the skies. Ace Harpy Hunter Piper Madden is used to
danger, but the death of her brother slams the brakes on her
high-torque lifestyle and leaves her broken and confused.
On the run from the dictating Elder Corporation, she’s eventually
found in the quiet undergound city of Ichton and asked to work for
the Corp on contract to quell a new and frightening Harpy
threat.
Enter the discovery of horrifying Corporation secrets, Harpy
attacks, and a new friendship with the strange Asher, and Piper’s
days become anything but boring.
Then, a chance encounter leaves Piper privy to a dangerous secret,
ad as she and Asher team up in an effort to unravel the truth,
the secrets they uncover beneath the ancient walls of the dead
city will spark their world into a grand-scale war
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EXCERPT
It always starts like
this. My vision starts to blur and the depth of the dirty brick walls plummets
into a single plane, like I’m staring into an abyss that never ends. Pins and
needles prick their way over my body and I fall backward, sinking through
layers of sticky black sludge. I land with a thud and David is before me
speaking urgently. His eyes are lined with confusion and anger.
“Piper, I don’t like
what you’re doing. Please, for the sake of our mother and our friends, put an
end to it now,” he says to me. We’re at our place in the mountains, the stars
peering onto us like frail paper lanterns. I look at him seriously, my hand
over my mouth, mind reeling at what he’d said.
“You don’t understand,
David. I love him,” I reply, feeling tears brim my eyelids.
“… … ….” David’s lips
are moving, but the noise coming out of his mouth is like raw static.
“I can’t hear you.
What’s going on?” I ask. He looks like I just slapped him in the face.
“I can’t believe how
selfish you are! “… … … ” He shouts, then comes the static again.
“David, I think there’s
something wrong right now. I haven’t done anything!” I cry frantically,
grabbing his shoulders and shaking him. He brushes me off and gives me a hard
stare.
“People are going to
get hurt, Piper. I need you to understand that!” he shouts.
“I don’t understand,
David!” I plead, “How are people going to get hurt?”
I hear more static come from his mouth, but he doesn’t seem to notice, he
just keeps talking, clearly thinking he’s telling me something important.
Frantically, I look around for a clue as to what is going on. When I turn back
to him, David’s face starts to deteriorate and his body fades away to
dust.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Nearly
every writer struggles to put together information about themselves,
perhaps because we’re so used to detailing the lives and ways of others. For
the most part I am a writer, editor, photographer, and all-around artist living
in the wilds north of Toronto, Ontario. I thrive on the juxtaposition of beauty
and grit, enjoy urban crawls, indie everything, and time well-spent in the
woods.
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