The Third Gender: Hope and Prey Book One

by Micah Ackerman

IS YOUR BABY DEFECTIVE OR EVOLVED??? A dangerous secret lurks beneath the innocent faces of newborn babies. Hope Kerman is one of the first children to be born of The Third Gender, a birth defect that turns young adults into human parasites. Thriving by absorbing memories, knowledge, and experience from their victims, the Third Gender is quickly gaining power. Hope fights her natural urge to feed on others, but it's a battle she might not win. Ben Ziegler is a flawed FBI agent, determined to stop the Third Gender's rapid rise to power. When he learns his own children are in imminent danger, he's forced to choose between his crusade against the Thirds or saving his family. So, in a world where puberty makes you deadly, a landscape with an unknown future and a lurid past, the Third Gender have begun to thrive. Why does nature need a third gender? The lines have been blurred by choice, blurred by genetics and even blurred by the additives in our food and the hormones induced in our meat. Is it nature or is it design? Is there someone pulling the strings or simply a spoke in the evolutionary wheel? The teens of the Third Gender suck out knowledge, experience and wisdom as they suck out life. In a time of living through social media, communicating by text and worshiping MTV and reality programming, they no longer live their own experience. So why not steal, why not leech, why not suck.The Third Gender Series, A modern day parable about the dangers we have created by trying to engineer nature's plan. The Third Gender is the action packed first book in a thrilling, reality based, sci-fi series by author Micah Ackerman, the novel is suitable for teens and up.

260 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 10, 2014

About the author

Micah Ackerman is a Horror and Science Fiction writer from Connecticut. He has worked in the medical field for the past 10 years giving him unique insight into the interior workings of the human animal. His first full length novel "Wormwood" is due to be released in the Spring of 2014. The book is about a full scale nuclear war and how one man strives to save his small town. Micah loves to chat with his fans so if you have any questions or comments please visit him at his website.

http://www.micahackerman.com/

Reviews

[Shanelle · Rating 5 out of 5]

... Where do I start? First let me say I don't usually write reviews.. Just seeing those words probably makes you think the book was awful :) This book was awesome!!!!!! After starting it I wasn't sure if I wanted to finish it... Then it got good.. Then it got even better.. Then I got to the end and was extremely pissed off thinking that was it. I wasn't going to find out who, what, where, when and why? You have no idea how hard it was not to break something... Then I found out this is only book 1... Whew!! Crisis averted. I will most definitely be reading the rest of the books. A.S.A.P!!!

[Almantas · Rating 3 out of 5]

A shocking piece of science fiction.