
Altered
Jacqueline Brown(Author)
Falling Dusk Publishing
Published on 15. August 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
346 pages
978-1-955029-05-6 (ISBN)
Description
Azalea Rose is no different from all the other gestates. Even though she's been gifted a name by Mr. Northup, she's still only a slave. She exists for one reason-to serve. How could she be worthy of anything more? After all, she isn't even a person. People are born from women; she's merely a human gestated by a machine, genetically altered not to be able to love or even think for herself. Though she looks like a vintage born, the purest form of a person, she's lower than an animal.
The truth of her life doesn't bother her. Why should it; it's what she was created for. Besides, there's no escape-the gestation firms made sure of that. Every action is seen, every word is heard, and every heartbeat tracked. If she serves those she is assigned to serve, she will not be punished.
She isn't assigned to Mr. Northup. He lives next door in an outdated house built of wood, where he is allowed to grow wasteful roses. Nothing about him makes sense. He's old, already many years into the age of uselessness, and yet he hasn't been dissolved. Everyone knows the useless are dissolved and the gestates serve. Everyone in her world, at least. But Kolbe isn't from her world. Kolbe isn't like anyone she's ever met ...
Altered is the first book in a new dystopian series by best-selling author Jacqueline Brown.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 133 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
436 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-955029-05-6 (9781955029056)
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Person
Jacqueline Brown is a Catholic author and former clinical psychologist whose fiction blends suspense, emotional depth, and spiritual themes. She is the author of The Light Series, the Awakening Series, and Altered. She writes stories that invite readers to consider faith and beauty in the midst of darkness. Brown lives in Florida with her husband and children.