Saturday, December 12, 2020
Blog Tour & Giveaway: The Hollis Timewire Series by Danielle Harrington
The Unseen Ones
Danielle Harrington
(The Hollis Timewire Series, #2)
Published by: Acorn Publishing
Publication date: December 1st 2020
Genres: Dystopian, Young Adult
After the government’s brutal attack on the Diseased Ones, Hollis Timewire must wade through the carnage of her treacherous mistake. The survivors want justice, and now Hollis faces impending execution. Each day, she must prove herself to be a model community member. But chopping firewood for the new camp in the forest isn’t enough. Hollis longs to redeem herself, and this sparks an idea to rescue the little boy from the Testing Center. Stealing the government’s secret weapon might just be the perfect way to destabilize the system – enough to bring the whole thing crumbling down. But unseen forces are at work. The world is not what it appears to be, and society has a dark secret that not even Hollis is prepared to face.
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I look over my shoulder, and, as if in slow motion, I catch the last glimpse of the squat little lady running down the remaining stretch of hall . . .
I’m slammed into the handrail as the next bomb detonates. All of the air is sucked from my lungs. White-hot color blurs my vision, and pain attacks me. I try to breathe, but my chest refuses to comply. Blood pools in my mouth, and ringing fills my ears.
I can’t move. I can’t breathe. I’m dead. I must be dead.
Adrenaline is working to restore my senses, and as I sit up, my terror climbs to new heights. The hallway behind us is gone, and Liz Engel is nowhere to be found. Blood drips from the side of my face. I place my hand to it, and the slippery, warm sensation makes me vomit. I turn over, spilling the sick to my left.
Someone is shouting at me.
I wipe something hot from my mouth.
Someone is shouting my name.
I stare at my hands, my vision blurring in and out of focus.
“Hollis? Hollis!”
Firm hands grip my own, and I’m pulled to my feet. The second I’m up, a fresh spike of panic brings me out of the fog.
“Jonah.” I cling to him to stay upright as another boom shakes the flimsy metal stairway.
“Move!” he says. “Down the stairs. Quickly!”
I grab the handrail and begin the descent into the massive room.
Darkness overwhelms us as we drop lower into the chaos. Concrete and earth litter the floor below, and as we move deeper into the belly of the compound, the smoke and dust thicken, like the brewing of an ocean before a great storm.
I clutch the railing, squinting through the tumult. Chunks of the vaulted ceiling are missing, and the night sky, littered with stars, twinkles above us—as if freedom were at our fingertips, taunting us with an escape that’s just out of reach. The truth is, everyone is stuck in the pit.
Everyone is trapped, and the roar of military jets and the screaming of frenzied people stab at my bleeding ears.
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Author Bio:
Danielle Harrington is a high school chemistry teacher with a passion for the pen and a knack for storytelling. She got her undergraduate degree in Chemistry at Biola University, and although she’s a hardcore science nerd, she’s always been a lover of the arts.
She grew up acting and singing and has turned her love for drama into writing. Danielle lives vicariously through her characters and considers it great fun because she “gets to play all the parts”.
Danielle lives in LA with her husband, Steven, and her two cats, Moose and Turtle. She is working on a four book young adult dystopian fiction series, and she’s beyond thrilled to be launching her debut novel, THE DISEASED ONES, through Acorn Publishing.
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