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The Connected
From the bestselling author of Compelled and The Skeptic comes a novel about loyalty, deception and murder.
Tim Richardson isn't one of the cool kids. He's too smart to be accepted by the popular crowd. A high school junior, Tim is a loner in a ski cap trying to escape the bully-sphere unscathed.
That is until the day he almost gets the shit kicked out of him by the meanest kid in school, and Jay Stevens comes to his rescue. Jay Stevens is everything Tim isn't. He's popular, an athlete, feared and respected by everyone around him.
But in high school getting your ass saved by the elusive Jay Stevens comes with a price.
Jay wants to use Tim's computer programming talents to create an illegal website. In return, he promises to initiate Tim into his exclusive club, making Tim instantly cool.
But it doesn't stop there.
Jay's club isn't just about hanging out and playing video games. Jay wants to run the school with an iron fist, using the principles of the mafia. And the things Tim must do to prove his loyalty become increasingly sinister.
Tim gets sucked further and further into Jay's world and finds that the stakes have gotten way to big, way too fast. And what started out as a way to become part of the "cool crowd" might just cost him his sanity, and even his life.
THE CONNECTED is a page turning thriller that will have you on the
edge of your seat. It is approximately 65,000 words in length.
Tim Richardson isn't one of the cool kids. He's too smart to be accepted by the popular crowd. A high school junior, Tim is a loner in a ski cap trying to escape the bully-sphere unscathed.
That is until the day he almost gets the shit kicked out of him by the meanest kid in school, and Jay Stevens comes to his rescue. Jay Stevens is everything Tim isn't. He's popular, an athlete, feared and respected by everyone around him.
But in high school getting your ass saved by the elusive Jay Stevens comes with a price.
Jay wants to use Tim's computer programming talents to create an illegal website. In return, he promises to initiate Tim into his exclusive club, making Tim instantly cool.
But it doesn't stop there.
Jay's club isn't just about hanging out and playing video games. Jay wants to run the school with an iron fist, using the principles of the mafia. And the things Tim must do to prove his loyalty become increasingly sinister.
Tim gets sucked further and further into Jay's world and finds that the stakes have gotten way to big, way too fast. And what started out as a way to become part of the "cool crowd" might just cost him his sanity, and even his life.
THE CONNECTED is a page turning thriller that will have you on the
edge of your seat. It is approximately 65,000 words in length.
- GenresYoung Adult
Unknown Binding
First published March 23, 2012
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