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Buch 3 von 3: Slated

Terry, Teri

 
9780142425077: Shattered (Slated Trilogy, 3)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0142425079 ISBN 13: 9780142425077
Verlag: Nancy Paulsen Books, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

The stunning conclusion to the Slated trilogy, for fans of Unwind and Legend !
 
Kyla is in danger from both the government Lorders who erased her memory and the terrorists who tried to use her. So now she’s on the run. Sporting a new identity and desperate to fill in the blank spaces of her life pre-Slating, Kyla heads to a remote mountain town to try to reunite with the birth mother she was kidnapped from as a child. There she is hoping all the pieces of her life will come together and she can finally take charge of her own future. But even in the idyllic wilderness and the heart of her original family, Kyla realizes there is no escape from the oppressive Lorders. Someone close to her may be one of them, and even more frighteningly, her birth mother has been keeping secrets of her own.
 
In this stunning series finale, Kyla finally finds out who she really is—and the road to this discovery, and to deciding who she wants to become, is full of dangerous twists and turns that will keep readers riveted.
 
 

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Teri Terry (www.teriterry.com), Canadian by birth, has lived in France, Canada, Australia and England, at more addresses than she can count. She’s been a scientist, lawyer, optometrist and business manager, and worked in high schools and libraries, with writing and stories always humming along in the background. Because moving constantly has kept her on the outside looking in much of her life, she has an obsession with characters who don’t belong or find themselves in unfamiliar places. Slated was her first novel, and she recently completed a research MA on the depiction of terrorism in young-adult literature. She lives in Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom.

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It doesn’t look like much from the outside. But what you get outside is often like that. People, especially, can be so different from what you can see that you’d never guess what goes on in their secret places. What they are capable of. In my case, what lurked within was so well hidden even I didn’t know about it.
     Aiden parks the car along the side of the rundown building. He glances at me. “Don’t look so scared, Kyla.”
     “I’m not,” I start to object, but then I glance at the road, and all at once, I am. “Lorders,” I hiss, and scrunch down in the seat. A black van pulls in behind us, blocking us in. Leaden dread pools in my veins, holds me still and numb even as everything inside is screaming run. The fear takes me back: another time, another Lorder. Coulson. The gun in his hand, pointed at me, and then—
     Bang!
     Katran’s blood. A sea of hot red that covered us both, and took my friend away, forever. So like my father’s death years ago that it wrenched up that most buried memory. Both dead. Both my fault.
     Aiden puts a hand over mine, one worried eye on the mirror and the van, one on me. A door opens, someone steps out. Not dressed in Lorder black? A slight figure, a woman, hat pulled down low to shield her face. She walks to the door of the building. It opens from the inside, and she disappears through it.
     “Look at me, Kyla,” Aiden says, his voice calm, reassuring, and I tear my eyes away from the van behind us. “There is nothing to worry about; just don’t draw their attention.” He twists in the driver’s seat, slips his arms around me and tries to pull me close, but I’m rigid with fear. “Play along,” he says, and I force my body to relax into his. He murmurs into my hair, “Just giving them a reason why we were lingering. In case they’re getting curious.”
     I breathe in slow. They’re not after me. They’ll go away now. They’re not after me. And then I’m clinging to Aiden and his arms wrap around me even tighter. There are vehicle sounds behind; tires crunch on gravel. And keep going.
     “They’re gone,” Aiden says, but he doesn’t let go. And the relief is so strong that I sag against him, bury my face in his chest. His heart beats fast, drumming a thump-thump of safety, warmth, and something else.
     But this is wrong. He’s not Ben.
     My fear is replaced by embarrassment, then anger: anger at myself. I pull away. How could I be such a total wimp, and let them get to me like that? How could I cling to Aiden just because I was scared? And I remember what he said on the way earlier: Lorders come here. Lorders, government officials, and their families. People with money and power who can make others look away and keep quiet. That woman is probably a Lorder’s wife. She is probably here for the same reason as me. I flush.
     Aiden’s blue eyes are warm, concerned. “Are you sure you can pull this off, Kyla?”
     “Yes. Of course I can. And I thought you weren’t supposed to call me that anymore.”
     “It’d be easier if you’d make up your mind what your new name is going to be.”
     I don’t say anything, because I sort of have, but I don’t want to share it yet. I’m not sure he’ll like it.
     “Walk in like you own the place, and no one will look at you twice. It’s all anonymous.”
     “Okay.”
     “Best get going before anyone else comes.”
     More Lorders?
     I open the car door, step out. It is cold, a gray January day. The chill is reason enough for the scarf wrapped around my head, obscuring an identity that will soon change. I square my shoulders, walk to the door. It opens, and I step inside.
     My eyes widen; my feet almost falter until I remember: Walk like I own the place. This shiny place, with enormous, plush chairs, soft music, and a smiling nurse? A guard stands discrete in the corner. The woman we saw come out of the Lorder van moments ago is ensconced in a chair with a wine glass in one hand.
     The nurse approaches, smiles. “Welcome. Do you know your number?”
     “7162,” I say, the number Aiden gave me earlier. Even though my name is best kept quiet, I’m not sure I like being known by a number, not after being Slated. Not after having a Levo around my wrist with my number carved into it, classifying me as a criminal for all to see. It’s gone now; there are no visible marks left behind, but the scars remain.
     The nurse checks a handheld screen, smiles again. “Have a seat for a moment. Your IMET consultant will be with you very soon.”
     I sit, startled when the chair moves, adjusts to my body. IMET: Image Enhancement Technology. Barely whispered about, hellishly expensive, and totally illegal. I’m here courtesy of favors owed to Aiden’s organization, MIA. MIA may stand for Missing in Action, but it turns out they don’t just find missing people and campaign for the truth about the Lorders to be revealed. Turns out they also sneak people out of the UK who need to disappear, and others in at the same time: IMET consultants who know a good black market opportunity when they see one.
     The woman in the other chair turns toward me. She is attractive, fifty or so. If the rumors are true she’ll look twenty years younger before she leaves this place. There is an inquisitive glint to her eyes, a what are you here for? look. I ignore her.
     A door opens and footsteps approach. She starts to get up, but the steps continue past her, and a man stops in front of me. A doctor? But not like any doctor I’ve seen before: He is in scrubs, but they are a bright purple shimmery fabric. It matches his streaked hair and purple eyes to perfection, unnatural shimmer and all.
     He holds out both hands, helps me up, and air kisses my cheeks. “Hello, darling. I’m Doc de Jour, but you can call me DJ. This way.” His words are a lilting drawl, an unfamiliar accent: Irish?
     I follow him and suppress a smirk at the indignant look on the waiting woman’s face. She must wonder who I am, why I take precedence. If she only knew.
     IF she knew, it’d go straight to her Lorder husband.
     Doc de Jour is disappointed in me. “Are you sure that is all you want done? Hair. In brown.” He says it like brown hair is the ultimate crime of mediocrity. But blending in is what I need.
     “Yes: brown.”
     He sighs. “Such lovely hair you have, and so hard to match. Like sunshine on early daffodils 12. With highlights 9.” He runs his fingers through it, a measuring look in his eyes, like he is copying it for his next patient. Then he studies my face. “How about eye color?”
     “No. I like them green.”
     “They’re distinctive; it’s a risk,” he says, and my eyes...

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Verlag
Nancy Paulsen Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0142425079
ISBN 13 
9780142425077
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
305
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