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About The Book:
Author: Bryan Prosek
Pub. Date: July 20, 2021
Publisher: CamCat Books
Formats: Hardcover, Paperback, eBook, Audiobook
Pages: 368
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A million thoughts, but only one right thing to do.
Eighteen-year-old
Serenity Ashdown has a brilliant mind: she counts, calculates, and analyzes
everything, even when she doesn’t want to. Her memory is also far beyond
photographic, surpassing her physicist father’s abilities. But her world was
otherwise normal right up until dimension-hopping enemies forced her into a
parallel reality. The feds she meets on the other side claim to want to help
her go home. All she has to do is use her memory to reconstruct the right
sequence of codes. But it’s soon clear they want something more: a gateway for
invasion, because this version of Earth is dying.
Serenity can’t risk returning home with a deadly force behind her, but the feds
aren’t about to let her escape. Then she learns that the “other Serenity,” her
alter-ego in this dimension, was a resistance leader recently betrayed and
killed. She has a chance to assume her alter-ego’s identity and use her unique
ability to lead the resistance in their fight against the tyrannical
super-government that is poised to invade her universe. Serenity has no idea
how to be someone she’s not, but she has to try—or she may not even have a home
to return to.
Review:
"Readers
will enjoy following Serenity as she learns to become a leader . . . in this
dystopian thriller showcasing a strong young woman in STEM." -Kirkus
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Excerpt:
The door to
Mr. Bailey’s outer office is open, but the chair behind the secretary’s oak
desk sits empty. Nobody is in the room, so I walk past two empty chairs and a
large plant toward Mr. Bailey’s door and
raise my
hand to knock.
“Yes, I can
hear you clearly. Can you hear me?” Mr. Bailey says, apparently on the phone.
“The connections are getting stronger. This is the first time I’ve been able to
remotely form a connection through the facility. Go ahead and put him on.” He
pauses. “Hello, Mr. President.”
Mr.
President? President of what? The university? No, he would not call Angela
Turner “Mister.” I turn and look through the open door behind me. The hallway
is empty. I hear nobody coming this way. But still, I should not eavesdrop.
What Mr. Bailey says is none of my business.
“Yes, Sir. I
will have Phil Ashdown working around the clock now until it’s activated.”
Dad?
I am certain it has something to do with the
project he has been working on for so long. What does Mr. Bailey mean by
“strong connections”? A connection through the facility?
I have heard
enough. As I escape back toward the hallway, I hear Mr. Bailey’s door open.
“Serenity,
come on in! What brings you here—the new research project?”
Slowly, I
return to Mr. Bailey’s office. His secretary’s small outer office pales in
comparison to what sits behind this door. I cannot even take in the whole room
without turning my head to scan it. I believe he has turned a former classroom
into an office. And he spared no expense with his mahogany desk and floor-to-ceiling
bookshelf on one wall.
The sun
shines in through a wall of windows on the opposite side. On one wall is a
framed picture of Mr. Bailey and Wes Masterson, President of the United States,
jointly holding a plaque that I cannot read from this distance.
Mr. Bailey
motions toward a leather chair facing his desk. “Please, have a seat.”
I sink into
the cushioning of the chair, my hands rubbing the soft leather of the arm
rests.
Mr. Bailey
sits in his tall chair behind his desk. “I haven’t seen you in a while. How are
classes going?”
“They are
going well, thanks.” I reply.
I am
terrible at small talk. I never know what to say. I probably should ask Mr.
Bailey how he is doing, but instead, I sit and wait for him to speak again.
“Your father
says you graduate in the spring, is that right?” “Yes.”
“What’s you major again. I think Phil told me,
but I forget.” He leans forward, folding his hands and rests his forearms on
the desk.
I sit up
straight. “Nuclear Medical Technology and Chemical Engineering.”
He smiles.
“A double major in two of the most difficult fields. Impressive. I believe you
are perfect for the new research project I have.” “Thank you,” I say, not
looking at Mr. Bailey but rather, looking
at his telephone. Something troubles me about the phone call I over- heard. It was probably just something typical with my dad’s work, but everything related to my dad’s work troubles me. One thousand one hundred ninety-two books on the bookshelf. I look out the window. Forty-three students and six faculty members in sight, making their way across campus. I see the maple tree outside my classroom, now from a different angle. A sparrow is perched on one of the branches. Eighty-nine thousand seven hundred fifty-six. Just looking at the tree, I know the number of leaves.
About Bryan Prosek:
Bryan Prosek
is a young adult writer and business attorney. Along with his first two novels,
The Brighter the Stars and A Measure of Serenity, he has published books and
articles in legal trade journals and magazines. When he isn’t writing or
practicing law, you can probably find him watching dystopian and science
fiction movies or television shows. He loves the big screen and the small
screen. There’s a good chance that he’ll be watching one of the numerous Star
Trek movies or series, but he could be watching anything from Guardians of the
Galaxy to The Conjuring.
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