Counteract: A YA Dystopian Thriller

Teens

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Synopsis

The government uses fear to control you. Show no fear, and they will destroy you. Still raw from the death of his parents, eighteen-year-old Tommy Bailey isn't sure if he wants to live--until he meets complex and intriguing Careen. He comes to her aid during a terrorist gas-strike, sharing his last dose of the government-mandated antidote that, they've been told, is key to their survival. Without enough antidote, the teens expect to die. Instead, they discover the terrorist attack wasn't real, and the antidote was never meant to protect them--it was meant to dull their thoughts and make them easy to control. As he and Careen search for the truth, Tommy learns that his parents were operatives in an underground resistance group that's fighting to overthrow the government. The Resistance expects him to continue his parents' crusade. The government's hunting him down. Which side will get to him first?

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Once upon a time, Tracy Lawson was a little girl with a big imagination who wanted to write books when she grew up. Her interests in dance, theater, and other forms of make-believe led to a career in the performing arts, where “work” means she gets to do things like tap dance, choreograph musicals, and weave stories.

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Fanning the Flames of Fear

This week, a tornado ripped through the town where my daughter grew up. We no longer live there, but the devastation wrought by a 15-minute bout with an F-1 tornado was considerable. One of my FB friends wrote that she was walking to the high school, where she teaches, and found herself in the midst of the maelstrom--lighting flashing, trees crashing to the ground all around her. Only later did she realize she had walked through a tornado to get to work. There was no siren. No warning on television. The fear came later, when people woke up and surveyed the devastation. In Counteract, the Office of Civilian Safety and Defense feeds off the population's fear. Without advance warnings, people would cease to worry. So the OCSD is always upping the ante...

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Counteract: A YA Dystopian Thriller

Tommy had flopped on the couch and dozed off after his morning workout, too exhausted to shower. He slept until the television powered up and the announcer’s voice filled the room.

“Detectible toxin levels up to vomiting have been recorded on the East Coast, with mostly dizziness levels over the Rockies and into the Southwest. It looks like things are gearing up to get worse, folks. We may have big changes in your local DTLs by the weekend.”

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Tracy Lawson

Counteract: A YA Dystopian Thriller

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Author Biography

Author Insight

Fanning the Flames of Fear

Book Excerpt

Counteract: A YA Dystopian Thriller

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