Post by Avery on Jun 29, 2011 14:13:18 GMT -5
>__> Probably the appropriate title given my general fail with Nano as of late. xD
But, I have an idea! So I will see how it goes.
But, I have an idea! So I will see how it goes.
In the not so distant future, seventeen-year-old Hanna Gill lives with her mother in the dilapidated remains of the once thriving metropolis of Tavor. Almost everyone else is gone, the majority felled by the virulent disease that ravaged the city before Hanna was born, the survivors lured away by the government’s promise of a new, wondrous start in a valley to the north. But Hanna’s mother refuses to join the mass exodus, insisting there is still life to be lived in Tavor’s smoldering ruins.
When her mother grows ill, though, Hanna is forced to venture to the valley—now a bustling town in its own right—in order to seek help. She is immediately greeted with extreme distrust, her pleas for aid falling on deaf ears. Quarantined to ensure she is not carrying her mother’s disease, Hanna soon discovers that the valley is not the paradise the government claimed. Though free of the sickness that destroyed Tavor, the valley is short on resources and even shorter on jobs, and competition is fierce. The only ones who seem to prosper are the political leaders who heralded the abandonment of Tavor, and for some reason they won’t let Hanna return to her mother even once it’s clear she is harboring no disease.
Monitored like a hawk, Hanna tries to blend in with the valley’s citizens once free from quarantine, but it is a hard-won task. Then she meets siblings Alex and Freya. Recent emigrants from Tavor following the death of their holdout father, the two help Hanna discover the truth behind the promised valley—and the dangers that lurk beneath the government’s saintly façade. After all, there had to be a reason they were so eager to abandon the once prosperous Tavor. And there had to be a reason people like Hanna’s mother were so resistant to leaving the fallen city behind.
When her mother grows ill, though, Hanna is forced to venture to the valley—now a bustling town in its own right—in order to seek help. She is immediately greeted with extreme distrust, her pleas for aid falling on deaf ears. Quarantined to ensure she is not carrying her mother’s disease, Hanna soon discovers that the valley is not the paradise the government claimed. Though free of the sickness that destroyed Tavor, the valley is short on resources and even shorter on jobs, and competition is fierce. The only ones who seem to prosper are the political leaders who heralded the abandonment of Tavor, and for some reason they won’t let Hanna return to her mother even once it’s clear she is harboring no disease.
Monitored like a hawk, Hanna tries to blend in with the valley’s citizens once free from quarantine, but it is a hard-won task. Then she meets siblings Alex and Freya. Recent emigrants from Tavor following the death of their holdout father, the two help Hanna discover the truth behind the promised valley—and the dangers that lurk beneath the government’s saintly façade. After all, there had to be a reason they were so eager to abandon the once prosperous Tavor. And there had to be a reason people like Hanna’s mother were so resistant to leaving the fallen city behind.
