Icons (Icons, Book 1) (UK Edition)
Margaret Stohl
Language: English
Pages: 174
ISBN: 0316205184
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Everything changed on The Day. The day the windows shattered. The day the power stopped. The day Dol's family dropped dead. The day Earth lost a war it didn't know it was fighting.
Since then, Dol has lived a simple life in the countryside – safe from the shadow of the Icon and its terrifying power. Hiding from the one truth she can't avoid. She's different. She survived. Why? When Dol and her best friend, Ro, are captured and taken to the Embassy, off the coast of the sprawling metropolis once known as the City of Angels, they find only more questions. While Ro and fellow hostage Tima rage against their captors, Dol finds herself drawn to Lucas, the Ambassador's privileged son.
But the four teens are more alike than they might think, and the timing of their meeting isn't a coincidence. It's a conspiracy. Within the Icon's reach, Dol, Ro, Tima, and Lucas discover that their uncontrollable emotions – which they've always thought to be their greatest weaknesses – may actually be their greatest strengths.
Bestselling author Margaret Stohl delivers the first book in a heart-pounding series set in a haunting new world where four teens must piece together the mysteries of their pasts – in order to save the future.
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Know your birthday.” “Whatever. Same thing.” Like me, Ro doesn’t remember much about his parents, and unlike me, there were no photos. I wonder. Three of us on one day. Maybe four. Tima looks at Lucas, then turns to me. Resuming her line of questioning. “We can’t figure it all out now. But what about this book? That you gave the Merk?” I was hoping she wasn’t going to ask me that. I know how it will look. But, one conversation. One honest, private conversation. I owe them at least that. I.
Here, anyway?” The question sounds forced, but it’s the best I can do. She’s not the easiest person to talk to. Tima looks uncomfortable, and I can tell she’s considering bolting. She has a flash of panic—fight or flight, she’s weighing the odds. For the moment, she stays. “I don’t like to think about it. I got here when I was around nine, I think.” She stops talking and takes a microscopic bite of her toast. I pursue. “Then where are you from?” Tima starts playing with her toast, breaking it.
I try not to smile. “Commencing room-scan for toxins.” “No, no. It’s nothing that will show up on a scan, Doc. It’s—a different kind of poison. Something new. Insidious.” His mouth twists and I begin to think he is enjoying himself. “I understand. Does this poison have a name, Lucas? I should file it in the Catalogue and Compendium of Toxins, in the Embassy Wik.” “Yes. It’s called … Amici Nex.” Lucas looks at me, arching one eyebrow. “And it’s a real pain in the ass.” Doc’s voice returns. “I.
Many failed experiments?” “If it’s true, it must have taken years to just get to the point where we were created.” Tima’s eyes dart as she speaks. “Imagine the resources, the planning, the information required to know how to design us. Let alone when. To know what we were meant to fight.” “Do you think our parents knew?” I’m reeling. Ro is on information overload. He’s fuming. “My parents were killed on The Day. They weren’t cooperating with any secret plan. They would have hated everything.
Largest cities in the world. The Padre says—said—that people used to live all over Earth, spread out. There were small towns, small cities, big cities. Not anymore. Almost the entire population of the planet lives within a hundred miles of a mega-city. The Padre said this happened because so much of the world has been ruined by people, by the rising waters, rising temperatures, drought, flooding. Some parts of Earth are toxic with radiation from massive wars. People stay in the cities because we.