THE BOOK
Author: Karri
Thompson
Publisher: Entangled
Teen
Pub. Date: June 30,
2014
I was born more than a thousand years ago.
Put into a cryogenic tube at age seventeen, forgotten during a holocaust that decimated the world, I've finally been awakened to a more serene and peaceful future.
But things at the hospital are new and strange. And it’s starting to scare me.
Everyone is young. Everyone is banded and tracked. And everyone is keeping secrets.
The cute geneticist Michael Bennett might be the only good thing in this crazy new world where “life is precious” but no one seems free to live it. The problem is, I don’t think he’s being totally honest with me, either.
When I’m told only I can save the human race from extinction, it’s clear my freeze didn’t avoid a dreadful fate. It only delayed the horror…
Put into a cryogenic tube at age seventeen, forgotten during a holocaust that decimated the world, I've finally been awakened to a more serene and peaceful future.
But things at the hospital are new and strange. And it’s starting to scare me.
Everyone is young. Everyone is banded and tracked. And everyone is keeping secrets.
The cute geneticist Michael Bennett might be the only good thing in this crazy new world where “life is precious” but no one seems free to live it. The problem is, I don’t think he’s being totally honest with me, either.
When I’m told only I can save the human race from extinction, it’s clear my freeze didn’t avoid a dreadful fate. It only delayed the horror…
THE EXCERPT
Michael took a seat on the edge of my bed, rocking me toward
him. When the side of my thigh met his knee, my heart rate doubled, and I drew
in a deep breath.
“Before you were awakened I spent hours at your bedside
imaging what you were like, how your voice would sound, how you looked when you
smiled. When your red lips pulsed, when your chest heaved, and you took your
first breath, I kept my emotions in check. But now, now that you’ve ‘awakened,’
everything is different. I can’t sleep. I can’t stop thinking about you.”
I ignored the pain and tilted closer until the space between
our faces was less than a foot. My heart, my mind, my soul—everything yearned
for his affection at that moment.
“I feel the same way, too.”
I closed my eyes, wanting this handsome, earnest guy to take
me into his arms and tell me he’d make them let me go. My lungs expanded with
his warm breath and spicy scent. When his lips met mine, every atom in my body
danced, urging me to pull him closer and tighten my grip upon his back.
His kissing became more fiery and I reacted by kissing him
harder. It wasn’t until his mouth moved to my neck, that I came to my senses
and drew away.
“Not yet,” I said, scooting away.
“I know,” he said between breaths, rising from the
bed. His wiped his forehead with the sleeve of his uniform and returned to the
chair. “I can’t…we can’t. We can never…,” he said abruptly. “It’s against
protocol. I-I should go.”
THE AUTHOR
THE GIVEAWAY
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