Remedy Files

A life without feelings, a life without decisions; that's the only life Evangeline knows. Because of the manufacturing of Remedy, her community of Impetus has discovered a way to survive and prevent the self-destructing mistakes of The Before by inhibiting feelings, creating a society that relies wholly on logic and entrusts Impetus to make all the decisions for its people. A chance encounter results in a friendship between Evangeline and a boy outside of Impetus named Gavin who challenges Evangeline to reassess her conviction in the world she has always known and introduces her to a choice she never thought she had. When she defies Impetus on her 18th birthday, Evangeline journeys through awakened truths, divided worlds, power struggles, and love triangles. For the first time in her life, the vitality of physical and emotional feelings forces her to understand and see Gavin in ways like never before. Broken, tested, and challenged, Evangeline must make decisions on her own for once, determining who she trusts, who she loves, and who she's willing to sacrifice in pursuit of what's right and to fight what she believes is wrong.

Book #2 of The Remedy Files Trilogy In this sequel to The Remedy Files: Illusion, Evangeline finds herself a prisoner in a new community called Revival after her abduction from Rebirth. Equally cold and filled with unfeeling people who don't know life in any other way, Revival sets the direction for The New World. Evangeline's brief encounter with the very-much-alive Gavin has her questioning his integrity and true role in their history together. In Revival, Evangeline learns The New World has determined that people with natural intuition and precognition are of special use to them, the exact abilities identified in Evangeline, Gavin, and most of those in Rebirth who can warn when bad events are about to occur. But after discovering Gavin's traitorous acts, new alliances must be formed, and Evangeline has a different mission in mind. People deserve to have choices and to feel, and Evangeline won't stop fighting until Revival reinstates basic human rights. It starts with getting everyone in Rebirth on board. Then saving Impetus and the other communities once and for all, regardless of Revival's-and Gavin's-attempts to stop her.

When the world ends, how do you start over? The woman only needed her family, hope, and the man she's been in love with since she was five years old. When the man was five, he made a promise to protect the woman at all costs. He didn't expect that to be threatened by the Apocalypse. Now at eighteen, they've witnessed the slow unraveling of their dreams as nature and men compete to wipe out humanity and annihilate the earth they once adored. The lands have shrunk, loved ones murdered, and every minute of life is a fight for survival. The Before is marked as a time of abundance and love ruined by destruction and hate. The After is a period of order and numbness constructed by survivors. What exactly needs to happen to turn the world so calloused that they banish feelings from their people? It's not the world the woman and man set out to influence when they were young and innocent. But a lot changes when survival is at stake. This 9,000-word novelette is the prequel to The Remedy Files Trilogy and includes the first 5 chapters of The Remedy Files: Illusion. It may be read before or after any book in the series. The Remedy Files Trilogy: Book #1: Illusion; Book #2: Rebirth; and Book #3: Divided.