Different.

by Cindy Ray

Celie wishes her identical twin sister Sophie didn’t exist, or at the very least, she spends a lot of energy trying to be as different as possible so as to avoid the endless comparisons about how they both looked alike. During their senior year Prom, Celie’s wish is granted, Sophie completely disappears, to include disappearing from everyone’s memory, well, everyone except for Celie’s. Sophie’s disappearance forces Celie into an action-filled summer that suddenly has her ironically trying to find her sister, while trying to thwart her own abduction from the forces intent on killing Celie. The forces trying to capture the twins have their own agenda, one so secret that neither of the twins are even aware of that swirls around a family secret, a celestial secret: Celie and her twin sister are half alien, and not in a ‘from a foreign country’ kind of way.
No, this is not an immigration tale of identity hysteria; it’s an apocalyptic adventure in which the twins have a bloodline that could lead to an alien race overtaking the planet. As the reader, you have to ask yourself: Can a sheltered 18 year old virgin save the world from aliens wiping out the human race so they can colonize on Earth? Can Celie convince her eccentric Wiccan aunts who have raised her that her twin Sophie even existed? Can Celie not have undeniable chemistry and not fall in love with the alien that ends up abducting her with plans to kill her? This is Different.

109 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 7, 2013