Title: PROJECT
EMERGENCE
Author: Jamie Zakian
Pub. Date: March 14, 2017
Publisher: Month9Books
Format: Paperback, eBook
Pages: 292
An ancient Hopi myth says people arrived on tiny silver
pods that fell from the sky.
But the truth is far more terrifying.
Two-hundred fifty-eight teens are sent from a dying Earth
to a terraformed Mars as part of the Emergence Program, mankind’s last hope
before solar flares finish off their planet and species. Among the brave
pioneers are sixteen-year-old Joey Westen and her twin brother, Jesse.
After only minutes in space, something triggers a total
ship lock down.
With the help of their roommates, the Matsuda twins
(notorious hackers and shady secret-keepers), Joey and Jesse stumble onto an
extremist plot to sabotage the Emergence Program.
But Joey and Jesse didn’t travel to the deepest pits of
space and leave their mother behind to be picked off in a high-tech tin can.
They’ll lie, hack, and even kill to survive the voyage and make it to Mars.
EXCERPT:
Joey
grabbed her brother’s hand the instant he climbed off the van’s step. People
shuffled all around the wide-open room, probably watching her act like a baby,
but she couldn’t let go. Fear stole her will. It could have been the towering
room of glass walls and silver beams that encompassed her, the barrage of
strange faces, or the fact that she’d never see her mother again, but gloom
tainted this moment. Holding her brother’s hand quelled a fraction of her
inner-turmoil, so she planned to keep doing it despite her sissy appearance.
A soft voice streamed from a kiosk of video screens, repeating the
Space Center’s famed slogan.
Three days on the
state-of-the-art R23 shuttle, strolling through green grass, swimming in cool
oceans.
Everything she memorized from the letter in her backpack.
“Look, there’s check-in,” Jesse said, tugging her from the display of
white sandy beaches.
She inched through the crowd, close to his side. They filed into a
rowdy line, her palm sweating against his skin.
“The Westen twins, I presume,” a high-pitched voice echoed from behind
them.
In one swift move, Joey shook free from Jesse’s grasp and whirled
around. An ultra-posh Asian girl leered down, and Joey stood tall. Her eyes
wandered to the near identical boy at her side, bearing the same long jet-black
hair. Another set of twins.
“How did you know our name?” Jesse asked. Joey nudged his arm, pulling
his gaze from the low cut of the girl’s sparkly shirt.
“We know the names of all the twins on this ship,” she said, her hand
hoisting to her hip.
“First and last,” the boy added.
Joey stifled a chuckle. Twins who finished each other’s sentences;
this trip was going to be stellar. The line shuffled forward, and the small
group edged up a few paces.
“How many twins are on this flight?” Jesse asked, glancing between the
pair.
“Fourteen, including us,” she replied.
“Well, fourteen sets,” the boy corrected, turning to his sister. “That
actually makes twenty-eight twins.”
“But twins is plural, so it
would be fourteen,” she argued, a hint of red flaring her cheeks.
“Yeah, but, you knew who we were,” Joey said. “We didn’t even know
there were other twins here. Is there, like, a manual we didn’t get or
something?”
About Jamie: Jamie Zakian is a full-time writer who
consumes the written word as equally as oxygen. Living in South Jersey with her
husband and rowdy family, she enjoys farming, archery, and blazing new trails
on her 4wd quad, when not writing of course. She aspires to one day write at
least one novel in every genre of fiction.
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