Series: Longevity #1
Release date: December 1st 2014
Synopsis via Goodreads:
Carles
"Carlie" Enoche's world is one that can barely be imagined. In it,
babies have micropharmeceutical devices inserted in their hearts within
hours of birth. The MicroPharm implant holds code that secretly counts
down until the date of that baby's death (as determined by its genetic
analysis) and contains drugs that are released in such a way that
chemicals and hormones are in perfect balance at all times, making
illness almost unheard of.
Theoretically,
the known but unexposed date of the babies' deaths and the maintenance
drugs geared toward giving the baby a long life have benign
consequences. It is the unknown and unbelievable and unexpected way
President John Barone gathers data about every child and the way he
releases contraceptives from the device in order to control the
population and terminate pregnancies when embryos are identified as weak
or mutated that makes the device and its technology as dangerous as any
malignancy.
For
President Barone, seventeen-year-old Carlie isn’t just a MicroPharm
first generation; she is the great-granddaughter of the man who
discovered the ability to determine life expectancy down to the day and
the daughter of the woman who invented the MicroPharm chip. Carlie and
her family are important to President Barone's political career and the
plans he has of creating a nation of strong, healthy, and superior
people, who give more to their country than they take.
Jayden
St. Romaine, one of the Facet's most loyal Surrogate Soldiers, is
ordered by President Barone himself to find the Enoche family and kidnap
Carlie. Through blackmail, he plans to leverage control over the
Enoche's scientific research and the ability to develop even more tools
that can be used to genetically engineer a superior race.
When
President Barone sends Jayden on his mission, he never expected his
perfect soldier to develop a conscience… betray his trust… fall in love
with Carlie, but he's dispatched a backup Surrogate Soldier just in
case. With the ticking of the clock and the second Surrogate chasing
them, Jayden's chances at redemption and Carlie's chances of living a
life where she is free to make choices about her life and her body are
in jeopardy.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
T. R. Graves is the author of several new adult series. She
lives in Texas with her husband and two children. Besides being blessed
with a supportive family, T.R. counts her career as an administrator
and registered nurse in not-for-profit hospitals among her most
fulfilling accomplishments.
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What Inspires You to Write?
Honestly,
I never know what it is that is going to inspire me or what it is that
will lead to one of those moments where I begin the process of
envisioning a new story. For example, on World's Teachers' Day
of this year, I was thinking back about all the books my teachers had
encouraged me to read while in school. One of those books was The Catcher in the Rye.
Something about that story began nagging at me, and I started the
process of researching it. I wanted to know if it had evolved and if it
was still being read. What I found most interesting was the fact that it
had not and that it was not.
The next thing I knew I had the beginnings of a new story, Chasing the Dragon (Lost Innocence, #1). I'm writing it for NaNoWriMo 2014 and am hoping to have it released by summer of next year. In the spirit of The Catcher in the Rye, the main character's name is Holden Caulfield. At odds with The Catcher in the Rye, the main character is a girl, making this a modern day coming of age story told from the point of view of a girl.
Like
I said, I never know what it is that will instigate a story. I've been
known to create new worlds after being inspired by a story on the news,
an article in a magazine, or a friend's shared problem. Inevitably,
something clicks... starts the wheels turning, and I begin to envision
the what if's followed by a million and then's. Before I
know it, I have characters, settings, dilemmas, and dramatic endings. I
have a story worth telling, characters worth loving (or hating), and
places worth visiting (or staying away from).
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Thanks for participating. Great guest post :)
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