Title: Lies
Series: The Geneva Project
Pages: 428
Genre: Children's Paranormal
Date published: September 1, 2015
Synopsis:
Can you live a life of lies?
That’s exactly what Geneva finds herself doing to protect everyone she loves. While Geneva and her friends embark on a dangerous mission to fulfill her destiny, the dark forces that seek her powers are closing in, putting everyone she cares about at risk. Geneva must lie about who she is, what she knows and her true feelings. Are all these lies worth it or will she go too far and lose everything she’s been fighting for?
Excerpt
The anxious knot in my stomach was growing unbearable. Months of preparation had led us to this moment. It seemed like a lifetime ago we’d fought our way out of the Troian Center and found shelter with the Betos in the rainforest. Since then I’d become a new woman. Or at least I was trying to be. I’d embraced my role as the Eva and studied the history of my people. But my education was short lived. It seemed that my destiny would seek me out before I was ready. Brutal attacks lead by the Ravinori, ending in utter devastation for the Betos, had forced my decision to return to the place I had fled. I was in search of the missing Pillars and a way to stop the dark forces from gaining power. We’d fought for every inch we gained on our voyage back to the Troian Center, but now that we were finally here on the precipice of my destiny, I felt stiflingly uneasy.
We marched forward out of the protective tree line of the forest and into the open field; a wall of bodies, hands clasped moving with purpose toward the Troian Center. Even though we had the protection of Remi’s invisibility power, I still felt tense and exposed. My heart pounded with uncertainty as a cool wind rushed past and we picked up speed. I could barely feel the strange sensation of lightness that being invisible provided. My skin tingled, but it felt more like nerves than magic. The last time I’d been invisible the sensation had felt much more intense, which had me worried that maybe it wasn’t working right. The possibility that Remi wasn’t strong enough to stretch his power over all of us made me shutter with fear. This was more people than he’d ever tried to share his power with before.
About the Author
Her debut novel, Truth, has won multiple awards, including the 2014 FAPA Gold Medal for YA fiction.
Benjamin’s writing hooks fans of mega-hit YA fiction like Harry Potter and The Hunger Games, and offers them a new series to obsess over. She paints a vivid world, where magic and imagination run wild in her epic tale of adventure, courage and friendship.
Benjamin studied English at the University of Central Florida. She’s dedicated to giving back to the community and speaking at schools to inspire creativity in young writers.
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