Hidden in the Dark
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Last published Wed, May 28, 2014
' Sometimes, when you’re on the telephone to whoever, maybe your boyfriend or your pharmacist. You’ll hear an almost unnoticeable click, click, click. To those of you who are uneducated in the ways of our governmental system that faint sound is the nearest security officer hacking into your landline or wifi adapter. Anything you say, even the slightest pause will be filed away and proofed. Then the results will be locked in a steel vault in which it will stay for the rest of your miserable life. It will never be moved or re-examined. '
Pandora has been living under the government's watchful eye for eighteen years, rooted in a system in which her country, the United States was founded on.
But there are secrets clouding her seemingly 'ordinary' life, they come to the light when she meets a mysterious boy who entrusts her with information, and then disappears. It is information that plunges her world into a dangerous game of cat and mouse, in which she must fight to survive.
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