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Maia and the Secrets of Zagran
by S. G. Basu
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BLURB:
Thirteen year old Maia thinks she has seen it all.
She has survived an assassination attempt, she has been threatened by the chancellor, and she has faced off with saboteurs trying to bring down a nation. She lets nothing get to her anymore-not the ominous nightmares she has been having lately, not the fear of being targeted for another soul extraction, not even the memories of her dead mother's terrifying communique.
More than ever, Maia wants the Initiative to resume. She longs to visit Zagran-the undersea capital of the Jjord. She wants to ride the underwater transport lines, learn about the Jjordic energy farms and most of all-she wants to goof off with her friends.
But, around the charming city of Zagran, evil is gathering. Maia and her friends do not know it yet, the countdown to their planned extinction has already begun.
She has survived an assassination attempt, she has been threatened by the chancellor, and she has faced off with saboteurs trying to bring down a nation. She lets nothing get to her anymore-not the ominous nightmares she has been having lately, not the fear of being targeted for another soul extraction, not even the memories of her dead mother's terrifying communique.
More than ever, Maia wants the Initiative to resume. She longs to visit Zagran-the undersea capital of the Jjord. She wants to ride the underwater transport lines, learn about the Jjordic energy farms and most of all-she wants to goof off with her friends.
But, around the charming city of Zagran, evil is gathering. Maia and her friends do not know it yet, the countdown to their planned extinction has already begun.
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EXCERPT
Through the darkness and the
fog, Maia fell. Faster and faster, lower and lower, she plummeted into the
bottomless pit until her heart went numb, until she had stopped feeling the
rush. It was a murky blur of senses when she hit the surface. The water,
surprisingly warm and soft as it engulfed her, spilled over the top of her
head, swirling around her face and her neck, suffocating her.
Maia screamed.
She bolted upright in her
bed like an uncoiled spring. The heaviness dropped away from her head forming a
dappled white, black, and amber shape of Dusty the cat. Struggling with the
lingering feeling of weight that crept along the fringes of her heart, Maia
realized it had been a nightmare. There had been too many of them lately.
Over a week had passed since
thirteen-year-old Maia had returned home to Appian after a successful run at
the Alliance Initiative on Xif. Her team, Core 21, had topped the first phase.
They were one of the twenty teams selected for the second phase in the undersea
Jjordic capital of Zagran. Maia had intended to enjoy every moment of this
brief break between the phases, and she mostly did. Except for the nights.
Every night was a battle against the inevitable, and every day started in a
haze of outlandish dreams from the night before. There were scores of them, but
one nightmare kept coming back—the one with the fires. Time after time, Maia
woke up screaming inside as the raging inferno engulfed her.
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AUTHOR Bio and
Links:
S. G. Basu is a telecommunications engineer by profession, but she
likes to call herself a dreamer. Imagination, fueled by a voracious appetite
for books, has been her steady friend since childhood. She discovered her
passion for writing quite by chance and there has been no stopping her since
then.
Find out more about the futuristic worlds she creates, the
characters that are real with their emotions and ambitions, successes and
failures, at www.sgbasu.com.
Website/blog - www.sgbasu.com
Twitter- @fromsgbasu
Facebook - www.facebook.com/thelightboundsaga
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