Decimation

"I can't," I say. I choke on my words.

I look between them as I feel overwhelmed with grief. I am crying so hard that I have to bite my lip till I taste blood.

In an instant, his cold blistered hands ram into my shoulders and he shoves me back against the crisp brick wall. His breath blows deeply across my cheek. "Choose."

I turn feverishly back to them as the man wipes the hair from my mouth. He ticks his gun between the two and stares at me with fury in his eyes.

"Payback's a bitch, isn't it?" His voice is lower and deeper as the moments flash by in a never-ending static state. This one twenty-second moment feels like an eternity as I look back to the man's blue eyes. "Now choose."

The bullet bolts from the gun and barrels through the sky . . .

One bullet, one life, one second. I close my eyes. I don't want to see what happened.

* * * * * *

In the year 2225, New York has been split into two Wards by a Government keeping the city as it always has been. A five-member Government runs New York and keeps the Wards running efficiently and smoothly.

Secrets overwhelm this city of perfection and the idea of A Better America is spreading until the world turns into turmoil by a seemingly unknown and unaccounted-for advance in science.

War, secrets, lies, family, change, and the unwelcoming truth that busts open a world that Amelia Caldwell - sixteen-year-old daughter of two Government workers - never knew existed.

They all have to fight something . . .
They all have to learn something they thought they knew . . .
They all will lose something . . .
But in the end, can they overcome the losses they suffer and survive the one thing that could truly destroy them all?

Find out in book one of the Secrets Worth Keeping Series