Clean Teen Publishing presents Enslaved, the final installment in N.W. Harris's The Last Orphans Series.
If he loses her, he’ll lose his will to fight.
Shane and his friends survive the first major attack against the enemy,
destroying the alien ships that came to harvest the children of Earth
and turn them all into slaves. However, one ship escaped, and the aliens
have captured Kelly. Shane will do whatever it takes to save her, but
turning his back on his friends could jeopardize the whole mission.
The
enemy invades Kelly’s mind, turning her into a slave soldier. She’ll
follow their orders, even if it means murdering her friends, including
her little sister and Shane. She is helpless, trapped inside her body
while it performs heinous tasks under the direction of her new masters,
while her sanity and desire to live fade.
Shane returns home to
make a rescue attempt, only to find Kelly commanding an army of human
slave soldiers, and she’s determined to make him join her ranks. Will
Shane save Kelly before she gets to her sister, or will she help the
enemy enslave the rest of humanity?
Excerpt:
A
buzzing sounded in her left ear, the same noise she heard when her
earbud activated and took her into simulations. Terror surged through
her. If it shut off, she’d be taken over by her slave gene. She
managed to keep still. The noise grew louder, heat developing deep in
her ear and spreading across her head. Sharp tendrils of pain whipped
through her body, and she clenched her teeth to keep from screaming.
Her knees grew weak. She was going to collapse, and, seeing the
movement, a soldier would pull the trigger and kill her before she
hit the floor. She thought of Nat, focusing all of her attention on
memories of her sister smiling up at her and giving her one of those
random hugs that made her heart seem to grow wings and flutter about
in her chest. If she were going to die, it was the last thought she
wanted to have.
Just
as her legs threatened to fold, the symptoms vanished. The buzzing
was gone and all seemed to return to normal, except she had the
strange sensation of being disconnected from her body.
She
sensed the soldiers’ nervous scrutiny of her and the other humans,
but the Anunnaki didn’t react. Whatever went on with her hadn’t
raised any suspicions. She tried to move a finger on her right hand,
the side that was toward the other slaves, hidden from view. It
didn’t respond, and panic swelled in her. Although she could still
feel the cool air swirling past the bare skin of her face and arms,
she seemed paralyzed.
Far
ahead, the line moved forward, apparently going into the next chamber
where they’d be scanned. Anxiety tightened its grip on her. How
would she walk when it was her turn? She tried to move her fingers
and wiggle her toes inside her shoes, but nothing happened. She was
about to be discovered. The wave of movement swept down the line
toward her. Putting every bit of intention she had on her legs, she
tried to get them to shift slightly, anything to let her know she was
in control. They wouldn’t move. She couldn’t even turn her eyes
to see left and right.
If
she had control of her lungs, she would’ve stopped breathing when
the boy ahead of her stepped forward. Kelly cringed, waiting to be
shot for not complying. She felt her leg lift, and as if something
controlled her remotely, she walked after the boy.
Her
momentary relief faded into terror. How did her legs operate without
her command? It was nightmarish, like she was trapped inside someone
else, able to feel and see everything, but unable to control any part
of her body. She tried to relax, to assess this new development. Her
lungs didn’t respond, so the deep breath she took was purely a
function of thought.
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The Last Orphans
(The Last Orphans Series Book 1)
One horrifying
day will change the life of sixteen-year-old Shane Tucker and every other
kid in the world.
In a span of mere hours, the entire adult population is decimated, leaving
their children behind to fend for themselves and deal with the horrific
aftermath of the freak occurrence. As one of the newly made elders in
his small town, Shane finds himself taking on the role of caretaker for a
large group of juvenile survivors. One who just happens to be Kelly
Douglas—an out-of-his-league classmate—who, on any other day, would have
never given Shane a second glance.
Together, they begin their
quest to find out why all of the adults were slaughtered. What they find
is even more horrifying than anything they could have expected—the
annihilation of the adults was only the beginning. Shane and his friends
are not the unlucky survivors left to inherit this new, messed-up
planet. No, they are its next victims. There is an unknown power out
there, and it won’t stop until every person in the world is dead.
A
spine-tingling adventure that will have you gasping for breath all the
way until the last page, The Last Orphans is the first book in an
all-new apocalyptic series.
The Harvest
(The Last Orphans Series Book 2)
In the wake of the apocalypse, nobody is safe.
Shane
Tucker and his friends thought they managed to save the world from the
destructive machine that killed off most of its adult population.
Unfortunately, a war nobody was prepared for has only just begun. Now
they find themselves joining ranks with a secret organization that will
train them to fight for the right to survive. Taking refuge alongside
other teenage survivors in a hidden base set deep within the mountains,
they will learn how to repel an imminent attack by an ancient race of
aliens.
Determined to safeguard the children under their charge,
Shane and his friends compete for the ultimate prize—a suicide mission
against the flagship of the alien fleet. While Shane's feelings for
Kelly deepen, along with his need to protect her, he finds emotions
clouding his judgment. He’ll gladly die for her. But he refuses to die
with her. No amount of training can prepare them for what is to come.
Everything the brave teenagers have endured thus far will be eclipsed,
with the freedom of humanity hanging in the balance.
The Harvest is the heart-pumping sequel to The Last Orphans by N.W.
Harris.
About The Author
Born at the end of the Vietnam war and raised on a
horse farm near small town north Georgia, N.W. Harris's imagination
evolved under the swaying pines surrounding his family’s log home. On
summer days that were too hot, winter days that were too cold, and every
night into the wee morning hours, he read books.
N.W. Harris published his first novel—Joshua's Tree—in 2013. It was
no wonder that with his wild imagination and passion for all things word
related, that N.W. Harris was named a finalist in Amazon's Break
Through Novel Award Contest. In early 2014, N.W. Harris joined the ranks
with Clean Teen Publishing when they signed his new young adult
apocalyptic adventure series—The Last Orphans.
In addition to writing, N.W. Harris has been a submarine sailor,
nurse, and business owner. His studies have included biology,
anthropology, and medicine at UCSB and SUNY Buffalo. He is an active
member of SCBWI and lives in sunny southern California with his
beautiful wife and two perfect children. He writes like he reads,
constantly.
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