Authorpreneur Dashboard – Deborah Rix
External Forces
Teens
TREASON. BETRAYAL. HEARTBREAK. A lot can happen to a girl between her first kiss and her first kill. EXTERNAL FORCES is a fast-paced, high-stakes adventure through a future world where evolution is the new religion and genetic deviations are not tolerated. It’s 100 years since the Genetic Integrity Act was passed and America closed its borders to prevent genetic contamination. Now only the enemy, dysgenic Deviants, remain beyond the heavily guarded border. The Department of Evolution carefully guides the creation of each generation and deviations from the divine plan are not permitted. When 16-year-old Jess begins to show signs of deviance she enlists in the Special Forces, with her best friend Jay, in a desperate bid to evade detection by the Devotees. Jess is good with data, not so good with a knife. So when the handsome and secretive Sergeant Matt Anderson selects her for his Black Ops squad, Jess is determined to figure out why. As her deviance continues to change her, Jess is forced to decide who to trust with her deadly secret. Jess needs to know what’s really out there, in the Deviant wasteland over the border, if she has any hope of making it to her 17th birthday. Because if the enemy doesn’t kill her first, the Department of Evolution probably will.
Book Bubbles from External Forces
Prologue
Figuring out where to start the story was difficult and it changed often. The prologue and first chapter were originally three chapters long with a lot more world-building going on. But it made for a slow start so I eventually ditched a lot of the back story and decided to use a prologue to get the story moving. There's a lot of information that I want to try to work back into the next two books. We'll see.
