Well, it's been a journey for sure and I've loved every minute of it!! Sharing pieces of Skyla with you has been an awesome dream come true but now, it's time for it to end. Ending seems like such a sad thing, but in this instance, the end is only the beginning. Are you ready for the WHOLE book?! I'm so excited to share it with you!!! In fact, I'm dancing up and down like a little kid going to an amusement park right now (on the inside at least)! The next time I post, it will be to tell you that my book is available for download.
That being said, tonight's teaser is perfect. It's actually the prologue to my book. Since this is what you would first read if you downloaded a sample of my book, I figured it was only right to post it here. So, sit back, relax and take a deep breath. Here is the beginning of Skyla.
They say the world ended slowly, like
a flower choked by weeds. It wasn’t war
or famine or even greed that destroyed it.
No, in the end it was a small infectious agent that brought the world to
its knees, a microscopic assassin. From
the first moment the Ghost Virus touched humanity, ‘til the time the last
survivors left earth, it ravaged the masses, killing millions in its wake.
It started inconspicuously with a headache and fever, common symptoms for any virus, but nothing could have prepared the world for what happened next. Victims would become confused, slipping into a semi-catatonic state, blissfully unaware as their fevers blossomed into full blown septic shock. Somewhere amidst the swelling and vomiting, delirium would set in. Victims teetered on the edge of insanity as the virus slowly disabled organs, shutting down their bodies one organ at a time.
Containment
seemed possible until several months after the first outbreak. Doctors worldwide watched in horror as the
once blood borne virus mutated into an airborne one. Like a trail of dominoes, it spread quickly,
consuming everything it touched like a wildfire. Whole cities vanished from existence. Places that were once teeming with people
were forced into quarantine to stop the spread of infection, but to no
avail. The virus’ lethal touch spread
across the continents with no preference for race, sex, age or station, taking
lives at its discretion.
True
to its name, the virus left the earth empty, only an apparition of its former
self.
In
a desperate attempt to keep the human race from dying out, a highly trained
team of government scientists and engineers collaborated and formed a plan of
escape far away from the infected earth.
They simply called it The System.
Large
sections, made entirely of sandstone, were cut from the Earth’s surface and
then strategically placed at the very edge of the troposphere. Suspended there by an advanced form of hover
technology, the islands hung as if attached by some sort of invisible string in
the sky. Electric fields surrounded the
cities, keeping the elements out, as well as converting the moisture in the
thin air into oxygen.
This
sky world provided a temporary solution until a more permanent one could be
developed.
Desperate and afraid, the last of the
unaffected population left in droves, boarding large air ships, making a mass
exodus into the sky. Their hope laid
within the promise of a better future, maybe not in this generation, but in the
ones to come.
~
Three
hundred years later, the Old World is but a
whisper in our thoughts, a vague remembrance of fear and death and pain. We call it The Nothing, because that is
exactly what it left us with.
Now
we wait.
Here
in the sky.
Fearing
the past, hoping the future holds more than this…
Now how's that for a last teaser? Thanks for following me these last weeks and I hope that you will enjoy Skyla as much as I enjoyed writing it!! I'll post again soon once my book is up and available.
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