Half Lives
Pub date 2nd May 2013
Publisher (UK) Orion Books
Publisher (US) Little, Brown Young Readers
International publishers Droemer Knaur (Germany)
Present day: Icie is a typical high school teenager – until disaster strikes and her parents send her to find shelter inside a mountain near Las Vegas.
The future: Beckett lives on The Mountain – a sacred place devoted to the Great I AM. He must soon become the leader of his people. But Beckett is forced to break one of the sacred laws, and when the Great I AM does not strike him down, Beckett finds himself starting to question his beliefs.
As Beckett investigates The Mountain's history, Icie's story is revealed – along with the terrifying truth of what lies at the heart of The Mountain.
A gripping tale of two people separated by time but connected by a story – and by the dark secret the story was meant to protect.
