Title: Broken Symmetry
Author: Dan Rix
Publisher: Burning Ember Press
Date of Publication: July 28, 2013
Genre: YA sci-fi
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Blurb:
Eleven months after the father of sixteen-year-old
Blaire Adams vanished without a trace, he's found wandering outside The Scripps
Research Institute vomiting blood and speaking gibberish, his sole possession a
worn leather diary filled with an unrecognizable language. He has a message for
her.
As he dies in her arms, he claims he never vanished.
She vanished.
In a nearby military quarantine zone, scientists are
being called in from around the world to sequence a previously unknown strain
of DNA. Scientists…and soldiers.
When her father’s autopsy reveals a rare chromosomal
disorder—a disorder, it turns out, she inherited—Blaire begins to suspect her
father’s last words weren’t induced by amnesia. Like her dad, she has an
additional set of instructions in her genes—instructions for what, doctors
can’t say. Only one thing is certain: it’s what killed him…and it will kill her
too.
But now she’s haunted by prophetic nightmares of the
Yellowjacket—a young murderer, eyes the black of charcoal, who lures his
victims to suicide without ever paying them a visit. The only clue she has to
his handiwork is a lingering feeling of déjà vu. That, and the nagging
suspicion that all she knows is a mirage. She is certain of two things—though
it may mean confiding in the wrong side of good and evil, he has the answers
she needs.
And he is recruiting her.
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Excerpt:
I woke up drenched in sweat.
Orange light poured through the cracks
in the blinds, igniting the walls and tinting the air crimson. My bedroom
shimmered.
It was light from the street.
I dashed to the blinds and lifted the
corner to peek outside—and the blast of heat made my eyes water.
Fire.
A house across the road and two lots up.
Flames exploded from the windows and
slithered up the walls and burst into the sky. Above the house, a rising column
of red haze bled into the fog.
But it was the scene in front of the
house that sent prickles through my heart.
My neighbor was on his knees, begging
for mercy.
A boy stood over him.
A boy in a yellow leather jacket, not
much older than I was, leveling a gun at the man’s forehead.
At his side a can of kerosene spilled
the last of its contents into the grass, and behind him a yellow Ford Mustang
GT with a black racing stripe growled on the lawn.
Yellow and black.
Like a hornet.
Finally the distant whine of police
sirens cut through the roar, the sound of safety and protection. Of
civilization. I let myself breathe again. Thank God—
A flash, the boy’s arm recoiled.
The gunshot echoed up and down the
street, and my neighbor keeled over, his lips still pleading for mercy.
I gasped, clutching my mouth to stifle
it.
The boy holstered his weapon and peered
up at the burning building with a lazy smile.
I couldn’t help it anymore. A shriek
escaped my cupped hands.
And despite the deafening roar of the
flames, despite the scream of the sirens, despite the double-paned tempered
glass windows my father had installed for my protection, the boy heard.
His back muscles flexed, straining
against the tight leather. He swung around, and from a hundred feet away his
coal black eyes locked on mine.
It was like he reached right into me and
gripped my heart. I dropped the blinds and backed against the wall, shivering
and wheezing for air. My skin buzzed with fear, and I could hear it ringing in
my ears, louder and louder.
Like hornets.
About
Dan Rix:
Dan Rix lives in Santa Barbara, California with his
fiancée, paranormal romance author Laura Thalassa. He started writing his first
novel in college while procrastinating his architecture studio work.
Blog: http://www.danrixauthor.com/
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/DanRixAuthor
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