Untouched
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Last published Fri, Jul 22, 2016
In a world where everything is perfect, nothing is.
Everyone follows, leaving invisible authorities to take the lead. Leave it to them, they say, to make all the decisions we can't.
But what happens when a person decides otherwise?
They find out the difference between what the Union says and the truth.
That's what Acadia is doing.
Because once you realize that your world is nothing more than a lie, what do you do? Worse, when you are nothing more than a lie?
Ever since the nuclear war, Earth has been uninhabitable without the protective domes. So society is forced into the dome cities of the Union, with the biomes surrounding to keep nature alive. Or so they say.
What if you can't tell the difference between being alive and living?
•Book one in the 'Halls of Glass" trilogy•
•co-authored by Julia Menna•
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