Purchase

Amazon

Kindle

Barnes & Noble

Powell's Books

Books-A-Million

Indie BookShop

Ripped Bodice

Add to Wish List

Also by T.R. Patrick:

Platform 21, December 2013
Paperback / e-Book

Platform 21
T.R. Patrick

Self Published
December 2013
On Sale: December 4, 2013
ISBN: 1492970824
EAN: 9781492970828
Kindle: B00FJ8NU3M
Paperback / e-Book
Add to Wish List

Young Adult

Luke’s life is about to take a dangerous turn. But first he has to die.

In the year 2052, high school sophomore Luke Gibson considers himself an average teenager in a world on the brink of monumental change. Joining his parents and sister, Laura, at the first World Energy Initiative Conference, he is among thousands gathered in a Denver arena to celebrate free renewable energy when a massive earthquake strikes killing everyone in the stadium. The last thing Luke sees before his death is a girl reaching out to him—a stranger whose face he remembers from his dreams.

The end, however, is not the end. Suddenly, inexplicably, Luke is back home in Ohio and everything is different. His sister is gone, the victim in an unsolved homicide years before. Angela, his mysterious dream girl, is here also, and the only person besides Luke who recalls the previous reality. And now their determination to uncover the truth about Laura’s murder and their transformed world is making them targets—forced to flee for their lives from a nameless shadow organization and a government seeking vengeance for an unthinkable act of terror—as they stand on the threshold of a dark conspiracy that threatens all humankind.

With Platform 21, a brilliantly inventive and unrelentingly exciting excursion to a troubled near-future, author T.R. Patrick joins the ranks of Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games), Veronica Roth (Divergent), Pittacus Lore (I Am Number Four) and other masters of YA speculative suspense fiction. The first book in the “Beyond the Veil” series, Platform 21 follows teenager Luke Gibson up to and beyond his death in a horrific terrorist attack in Denver in the year 2052. Reawakening in a world strangely transformed, Luke sets out to uncover the truth about his new reality—joining forces with Angela, a girl he had seen previously in his dreams, in a desperate race for survival that will propel them across the threshold of an insidious global conspiracy that threatens the future of all humanity.

Comments

1 comment posted.

Re: Platform 21

It's great to see that you've finally accomplished your dream. Having encouragement along the way is half the battle. The other half is guts. I've got a non-fiction book in my head that I've wanted to write for decades, but am too chicken to put pen to paper. I'd also need to go as an anonymous nom de plume, because too many people would recognize themselves, and some people could be a little upset with me, even if I didn't use their names, just the circumstances. I've got the guts to a degree, but not quite enough, and under the circumstances, I don't have the backing. I just have the backing of a few friends who don't realize the full impact. Your book has a very interesting plot. I'm interested in reading it, and I hope it gives you the urge to take another dream, and put pen to paper again. Congratulations!!
(Peggy Roberson 8:20am December 18, 2013)