THE RUINS is the second book in THE UNION series.
It is a young adult romantic adventure set in the near future.
Title: The Ruins
Series: The Union Series Bk#2
Author: T.H. Hernandez
Genre: Sci-Fi, Dystopian
Release Date: 16th June 2015
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Heartbroken, grief-stricken, and wracked with guilt, seventeen-year-old Evan Taylor returned to the Union, leaving behind the boy she loved.
Now, she and her friends must find a way to do the impossible – warn the citizens of the Union about an impending rebel attack without alerting the government and risking retaliation against her friends in the Ruins.
When every move Evan makes is thwarted, it soon becomes clear she's being watched. Faced with a daily fight to stay one step ahead of her pursuers, she returns to the Ruins. But life in the Ruins has its own dangers, and soon she’s fighting a different battle – to stay alive long enough to discover the truth.
Now, she and her friends must find a way to do the impossible – warn the citizens of the Union about an impending rebel attack without alerting the government and risking retaliation against her friends in the Ruins.
When every move Evan makes is thwarted, it soon becomes clear she's being watched. Faced with a daily fight to stay one step ahead of her pursuers, she returns to the Ruins. But life in the Ruins has its own dangers, and soon she’s fighting a different battle – to stay alive long enough to discover the truth.
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EXCERPT
The scents of
honeysuckle and fresh-cut grass float on a late summer night breeze. I stare up
at clouds from the chaise lounge on the balcony. A thick marine layer inched
its way in from the coast hours ago, blanketing the sky and obscuring the stars
I was hoping to see. With the moon hidden and the Union lights off for the
night, darkness envelopes me.
Grief,
guilt, heartbreak, fear, loss, and abandonment swirl in my head, creating a
vortex of pain and confusion keeping me awake. Three days ago I was planning a
future with the boy I love. Cyrus was going to come back with me. We were going
to figure out a way to warn the Union or stop an attack on it. Together. Now
his brother is dead, and Cyrus stayed behind, unable to ignore his sense of
duty, unwilling to abandon those who needed him most.
Over
the soft murmuring of desalinated ocean water burbling through the aqueduct on
its way to homes throughout the Province, I hear the door slide open behind me.
I sit up as my bio-dad, Eddie, walks out and sits next to me. “Can’t sleep?”
I shift
to my right, giving him more room. “No. You?”
He
shakes his head, his wavy, cinnamon-colored hair sweeping his shoulders. “My
grandmother used to say if you can’t sleep, it means you’re awake in someone
else’s dreams.”
That’s
a comforting sentiment. Is Cyrus dreaming about me now? Or is he like me, too
afraid of the nightmares to close his eyes?
Eddie
presses his lips together and studies me for several long seconds. “Are you
ready to tell me where you really were all summer?”
“I
don’t know, are you ready to tell me where you were for the first twelve years
of my life?”
He
shifts his weight on the chaise next to me and sighs. “I’m not sure how many
times I can apologize.”
“You
think another ‘I’m sorry’ is going to fix everything?”
“Look,
I know I was a lousy father to you, but—”
“You
weren’t a lousy father, you weren’t any kind of father at all. You were
non-existent.”
He rubs
his palms on his thighs and stands. “You’re welcome to stay here as long as
you’d like, but you might want to ratchet the anger down a few notches.” He
moves toward the door before turning back. “You’re going to have to forgive me
some day.”
I raise
my head and turn toward his dark silhouette. “Why? You think sending me a
ticket and letting me hang out with your new kids makes up for everything?”
“No,”
he says quietly, “because hanging on to all that resentment isn’t healthy.” He
walks back into the house, sliding the door closed behind him.
With a
heavy sigh, I fall on my back and stare back up into the blackness. Seriously?
After being nothing to me for three-quarters of my life, where does he get off
being all parental right now?
REST OF THE SERIES SO FAR . . .
Series: The Union Series Bk#1
Author: T.H. Hernandez
Genre: Sci-Fi, Dystopian
Release Date: 18th November 2014
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After global warming and a second civil war devastated the former United States, two different societies rose from the ashes – the Union, a towering high-tech utopia, hugging the perimeter of the continent, and the devastated, untamed midsection known as the Ruins.
Seventeen-year-old Evan Taylor has an easy, privileged life in the Union. What she doesn’t have is any idea what to do with the rest of her life. She only knows she wants to do something meaningful, to make a difference in the lives of others.
When she’s kidnapped and taken into the Ruins as a pawn in a dispute involving her boyfriend, Bryce, her ideal world is turned upside down. What she learns while in the Ruins shakes her faith in everything she’s ever known, from Bryce, to her family, and even the Union itself.
Now Evan must choose whether to stay with Cyrus, the sexy, resourceful survivor who believes she’s in the Ruins for a reason, or return to the only life she’s ever known. But when she stumbles upon a dangerous plot that threatens both worlds, her decision could tear her apart.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
When not visiting the imaginary worlds inside her head, T.H. Hernandez lives in San Diego, California, with one husband, three children, two cats, and one dog. In addition to her day job as a writer and editor, she writes young adult fiction and reads and blogs about books. She particularly loves the young adult genre with the intensity of teen emotions and the way they're still figuring out life.When not writing, you can find her with her nose in a book, playing Plants Vs. Zombies on her iPad, or binge-watching Doctor Who with her kids. She's obsessed with pumpkin spice lattes, Comic-Con, microbrewed beers, Bad Lip Reading videos, and the San Diego Chargers.
You can find her online at http://thhernandez.com
I have featured The Union by T.H. Hernandez on my blog before back in November 2014. In that post the author kindly treated us to her perfect cast for The Union.You can take another look at that post right here
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