Shadow State
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- USD 11.99
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- USD 11.99
Descripción editorial
What Brynn Caldwell can’t remember might get her killed.
Brynn is a promising science student recovering from a major setback: Last year, a bad relationship sent her spiraling into depression. But as she puts the pieces of her life back together, a few don’t fit.
Soon Brynn starts having flashbacks—hazy memories of being abducted and possibly brainwashed. It’s all connected to a wonder drug to treat PTSD that might actually be the ultimate weapon: a tool to control people’s memories. And Brynn can’t trust the people who know the truth—her best friend turned enemy, her genius scientist mother with a secret, and Brynn herself, whose memories might all be lies.
Now, to stop a possible terrorist attack, Brynn has to uncover what she’s been forced to forget—and learn what side she’s really on.
Elyse Brayden’s Shadow State is a pulse-pounding thriller that tackles homeland security, government conspiracy, and obsessive love, with a final-page plot twist you’ll never forget.
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"Suspenseful, with a relatable but unreliable narrator and a gripping premise." —Booklist
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In this slow-moving thriller set in Annapolis, Md., high school sophomore Brynn Caldwell, a science superstar, starts having vivid nightmares and terrifying flashbacks of being kidnapped and interrogated, and possibly brainwashed. She has no idea what these scenarios are based on or whether the events in them really happened, nor does she know who is sending her mysterious text messages, which seem to be counting down to a bomb's explosion. Brynn's new boyfriend is afraid that Brynn is part of a homegrown terrorist organization that planted the bomb, which may be timed to coincide with the release of a brand-new drug, developed by Brynn's mother, that is meant to help PTSD sufferers by erasing their memories. But Brynn doesn't remember joining a terrorist group. In fact, Brynn can't quite remember last summer at all. Could she be part of a plot against her own mother? The story takes a while to get off the ground, and the characters' motivations don't hold together at the end, with an ultimate twist that strains credulity. But the premise, that a pharmaceutical company would falsify its tests, is more than conceivable, and Brynn is a likable protagonist. Ages 14 up.