Story Notes

They’d been lied to —all their life, everything they’d been taught had been a lie. The lies weren’t just about their world —they’d been lied to about who they were.

In a totalitarian society genetically engineered for obedience, Denzin, a ‘natural’, and his friend Chimma, compliant to a fault, are the only ones who can save his own person bully—his perfect twin sister, Kayda. Once they rescue him, at least, and weather the storms he continues to create in the lives of everyone he loves.

Summary

Calling a stranger in out of the rain is risky. Especially when the storms that stranger creates in the lives of those he cares about are even more devastating than those that wreak havoc outside. Chimma learns that lesson the hard way. For Denzin turns her life upside down and inside out. Then he disappears, turning up in the most unlikely of places, and the storm he draws her into batters away the delusion her whole life was based on. Meanwhile, in dark corners of the City, marauders roam the streets, along with whispers of a prophecy that even Denzin cannot outrun.

Genre: Scifi

Author: Heidi Goodchild

Status: Complete

Chapters: 56

Rating: 5.0 (1 review)

Age Rating: 16+

Prologue (And Map of The City)

Gladys Dea hobbled home through the streets of the City. Her cane clicked as it struck the smoothness of the paving beneath her. A little song was singing away in her heart. All those years of waiting. Of hoping. Of seeing the need, and knowing the promise, but not understanding how on earth the two matched up.

Until today.

A sudden gust caught her hair, sending fine wisps of grey to form a cloud around her head. Another storm was on its way. But even that could not douse the sparking embers within her. The storm she had been awaiting had become more than just a whisp at last. Its thunderhead was at last building strength on the horizon. And this storm she would not be consigned to merely watch through her window – this one her aged feet would dance in!

Oh, she was glad that the Sick had gone in time for her to see it come to pass. Exactly how Senda was going to bring her into the picture had yet to be seen. But it wasn’t her job to insert herself. Only to respond when it happened.

For they had found each other.

And the story was about to begin.