This time around, I'm hosting an excerpt from a YA dystopian novel, "Sunset Rising". The book sounds amazing! I hope you'll enjoy the snippet.
Book Excerpt
“Seventeen? I married a teenager?” He sounded shocked. “Wait a minute, are you telling me that you and Reyes got engaged when you were only thirteen?”
“Yes. What’s so strange about that?”
“I’m twenty and that’s a young age in the Dome to get married. Usually people wait until they’re about twenty-five.”
“Well, when you face certain death at thirty-five, you speed up your life a little bit.”
Sunset Rising
Title: Sunset Rising
Author: S.M. McEachern
Genre: YA Dystopian
February 2024: Desperate to find refuge from
the nuclear storm, a group of civilians discover a secret government bio-dome.
Greeted by a hail of bullets and told to turn back, the frantic refugees stand
their ground and are grudgingly permitted entry. But the price of admission is
high.
283 years later… Sunny
O'Donnell is a seventeen-year-old slave who has never seen the sun. She was
born in the Pit, a subterranean extension of the bio-dome. Though life had
never been easy, lately it had become a nightmare. Her mom was killed in the
annual Cull, and her dad thought it was a good time to give up on life. Reyes
Crowe, her long-time boyfriend, was pressuring her to get married, even though
it would mean abandoning her father.
She didn't think things could get any worse
until she was forced upstairs to the Dome to be a servant-girl at a bachelor
party. That's where she met Leisel Holt, the president's daughter, and her
fiancé, Jack Kenner.
Now Sunny is wanted for treason. If they catch
her, she'll be executed.
She
thought Leisel's betrayal was the end. But it was just the beginning.
Sunset
Rising is Book One of a series.
Author Bio
S.M. McEachern (also known as Susan) has an
honors degree in International Development.
As an author, Susan combined her political background with her love of
action and romance to create her debut novel Sunset Rising. The first book of a trilogy, Susan is
currently working on the second book and drafting the third. What does she like best about being an
author? Hearing from her readers!
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