by Adara Flynn Quick
Publication date: May 18th 2016
Genres: Dystopia, Young Adult
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WHATEVER YOU DO, DON’T GET OLD.
In fiery young Deirdre Callaghan’s home of Skellig City, no one has dreamt
their own dream in over a thousand years. Dreams are produced by the Dream
Makers and sold by the Ministry, the tyrannical rulers of the city. In Skellig
City, years of life are awarded equally and the ruined are cast away beneath
the city on their 35th birthday.
Unbeknownst to the Ministry,
Deirdre’s handsome friend Flynn Brennan is afflicted with a terrible disease –
a disease that accelerates the aging process. Knowing his fate if the Ministry
should ever discover his illness, Flynn has lived his whole life hiding from
their watchful eyes. When Flynn’s secret is finally discovered, Deirdre is
determined to free him from the Ministry’s grasp. But to save him, she will
have to reveal herself to a shadowy enemy…one that none of them even knew
existed.
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Deirdre
was falling from a great height. The air was cold and her hair blew up around
her like a golden veil. Ice crystals collected in her curls and they turned
rigid as she fell. And then she crashed headlong into a body of ice-cold water.
The freezing temperature bit into her skin like a thousand pinpricks, and her
eyes flew wide open. Above her was the light of the surface, but a powerful
current was sucking her down, down, down into the dark. She flailed against the
downward pull, kicking with her legs and reaching with her arms. She knew that
the single breath of air in her lungs wouldn’t last much longer. At the last
moment, just as she felt that she might open her mouth and drink down the dark
water, the riptide from below released her. She kicked for the light, but soon
the true horror of the ‘Mare became clear. The surface was sealed away with a
thick layer of ice and frost. There would be no air for her lungs in this
underwater prison. She beat her fists against the ice to no avail; the dark
water wouldn’t let go. She was drowning with the surface just out of reach.
She tried
to scream a curse at the Minister, but in this ‘Mare there was only silence. No
sounds at all. She sucked down the freezing water and choked, over and over.
Mercifully, she passed out. In that brief moment of unconsciousness, a hundred
images flickered through her mind, each one like a photograph taken with a
magnesium flash bulb. Images of Roenin, Flynn, and the red oak tree kept
appearing. In the back of her mind her own voice formed a question: how does
Roenin know about the Dream Protocol?
On the
surface of the frost, something new came into the dream, something that the
‘Mare Makers would never have sequenced. The ice started to hiss and steam. A
pattern wrote itself into the ice block; the five-circle symbol of the Makers.
It burst into flame, melting the ice and cold all around the Maker’s daughter.
Deirdre felt her body rising out of the water. In dream, she came Awake.
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Author Info
Irish-American author, Adara
Flynn Quick, is the writer of The Dream Protocol series. Early in her career,
Adara was fascinated by dreams, the unconscious, and the healing stories of
many cultures. As a contemporary author, she writes young adult literature that
brings ancient myths and legends into futuristic worlds. She is an accomplished
visual artist and uses her background as a psychotherapist to inspire the
finest and darkest moments of her characters.
Driven to distraction by her
computer, Adara writes all of her stories longhand. Pen and paper are two of
her favorite things. The author tortures her husband with a passion for
downtempo electronica and too many pillows. She is a firm believer that there
are never enough pillows.
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