Lens

This is a book about creativity. This book uses fiction to explain non fiction events. This book gives practical steps on how to tap into your inner creativity

In a world monitored by mind-manipulating implants, one young woman will risk everything for liberty. Brooklyn, 2095. Seventeen-year-old Riley Taylor longs to escape the crushing poverty of the slums. Stuck with her best friend in a totalitarian police state, their only hope of freedom is joining the military. But when Riley gets ripped away from him in their first brutal combat, she's shocked to discover why so many recruits come home in coffins. Ultimately reunited on the front lines in the war for dwindling natural resources, she's devastated to learn they wiped his memory. As they fight side by side, she vows to survive long enough to restore his recollection of their lost friendship. But with her state-issued chip recording her every move, digging into the corrupt regime could prove deadlier than the battlefield.... Can Riley save her best friend before the government steals her last shot at a new future?

2096. Riley Taylor is still alive. Still fighting. Still ensnared in the Service's trap. She's served in battle. She's killed. She's watched as her friends have fallen away, either to death or to the brainwashing that forces the government's agenda into young, hungry minds. But Riley is one of the few citizens who has seen the inside of the Stilts, the flooded buildings that surround Manhattan. Now that she knows what life is really like on the other side of the wall, she must decide which path to take. She can continue her career as a soldier in the Service, or she can turn spy against the government and begin working with the Volunteers. Both situations are dangerous. Both could be deadly. And as the clock ticks down to the time when she will have to choose, it's more than just her own life on the line.