As a prequel to The Gifted series of books, The Beginning explains the nuances of life on Green3.
With segregation between those with powerful Gifts who live below ground and those without power called Benign, who are forced to live in the radiation above ground, it is essential that Clara, Pippa and Anya, daughters of both Gifted and Benign parents face the trials that will come their way.
Starting in childhood and quickly progressing through the significant happenings that shape their lives, this short compilation of introductions, to both characters and histories, provides the basis for the series The Gift.
This book is not a full length novel and is intended as a foundation to future books in the Gifted series only. The first book in the series, Anya, is due for release later this year.
Author Rachel Walker enjoys the strange and unusual. Family and friends are a huge influence on her day to day life but she tries to make time for fun. A lover of film and music, she's an avid (bordering on obsessive) reader of anything unusual. From romance to horror her taste in books is as wide as her musical interests which comprise of Meatloaf, Lo Fang, 50 Seconds to Mars and Pink. Eclectic by nature she collects anything which takes her fancy.
Her day job in a school keeps her young at heart, but slightly crazy too. Never actually diagnosed with anything certifiable she transfers her imagination to the page via words. Her writing often takes the form of Science Fiction, but contemporary works occasionally appear.
'The Gifted Series', were her first attempts at writing, completed on a challenge by a friend. Once written 'Anya' stayed hidden on her computer for almost a year before she grew brave enough to show it to someone. Since them 'The Gifted Series' has extended to four books, the first of which, 'Anya', now included 'The Beginning'.
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