The Balance, Coming January 2015—Read the 83 Page Excerpt

THE BALANCE is a novel, set in a dystopian future. It’s 200 years after a global thermonuclear war. The Land is ruled by a theocracy, the Council of God, which drove the Order into exile about eighteen years before the story begins. The Order was an organization that brought advanced technology from the past into the post apocalyptic era. Phoebe is seventeen, and the last Sensitive that was genetically engineered by the Order before they were either killed off or went into hiding. She doesn’t know why she’s plagued by the voices, images, and feelings of people all around her. It’s a constant struggle for her to survive the chaos they bring to her life, and to hide her strangeness so that people don’t say she’s in league with the devil. In the Land, strange behavior is reported, and witches are sent to the Inquisition, to be questioned and then publicly executed. She lives in town, hiding what she is, protected by her adopted father, Daniel.

The Order hasn’t completely vanished. Their ancestors established Sanctuaries before the war, and they retreated to these hideaways, as they plot to restore the historic agreement that allowed them to share the benefits of an advanced civilization with the people and to co-exist in the Land. Their leader, a genetically-engineered Prescient, is aware of Phoebe, but they’ve largely left her alone. Now he sees a danger coming for her and a vision that she might hold the key to re-establish The Balance.

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