The Cured
Written by Valerie Wagner
The Cured - Overview
The year is 3043, ten centuries and a decade after the Korean-American War. The world had been devastated with only a few surviving families left unscathed. These families regenerated the human race, creating Emperia which stands where America fell those many years ago. As memories live on, the past pushing influence into the future, the new generations of the human race are now ready to take care of themselves.
Our main character, sixteen-year-old Raven Jones, is apart of the stable and new world. Life was seemingly normal for Ray Jones in the new era of the world, aside from the most recent changes to her family. Learning to grieve after her father’s death, her life begins to take a strange and dark turn for the worst. Her stepfamily is tearing her life apart, and she tends to get caught in the middle of things without a way of “getting out alive.” She lived a normal life inside a utopia of endless rebirth - until the problems in her life caught up with her. Life with her stepfamily took a turn for the worst after a fight broke out between stepdad, Ben, and Ray which pushed Ray to, ultimately, leave her family and go on the run - just to clear her head. Or so she thought.
Ray went off and met someone that had insight into the behind the scenes of the world that she lived in. As she saw the full scope of her world that was ever changing, she also found the dark truths and the blatant lies that had shaped her consciousness to be blinded - as well as everyone else's. Within the walls of her empire, Riverburn, the scientists had developed a new cure that devastated the foundation of all knowledge. This new cure opened the door to a new realm of life, and, similarly, closed the door to death entirely.
This greeted Ray Jones with a new dilemma: if something can be fixed, should it be fixed? Better yet, is it too late now to fix anything?
The Cured is a science fiction/historical fiction novel solidly grounded into the idea of genetic mutation and governmental control in society. The book will appeal to readers of works similar to Veronica Roth (Divergent), Suzanne Collins (Hunger Games), and Joey Graceffa (Children of Eden).
About the Author
Valerie Wagner was born in Memphis, TN before she moved to Biloxi, MS to grow with her family. Although she has lost her mother to cancer and her grandfather to other health conditions, she pushes past the hurt and used it for good.
Wagner is a community theatre actress and a junior at Biloxi High School. She wishes to attend William Carey University once out of high school to obtain a degree in Mass Communication with a minor/focus in News Broadcasting and Production.
Wagner loves reading and writing, and her favorite books typically come from science fiction writers and from the horror genre. Wagner finds the dark and disturbing quite attractive, and this love for the strange and unusual sparked interest in this book's beginning.
