SYNOPSIS FOR THE SUNDERED
2-line Summary:
The Earth drowns in black water that kills if touched. Harry searches for the Hope of Humanity, a
machine that can save his people. Instead, he finds Aakesh, the most beautiful and terrifying creature he’s
ever seen - but mastery of this Sundered One comes at a price.
Short Synopsis:
The world I know is flooded. You don’t go in the water. You don't touch it. If you do, it will get you,
drag you down, and you're gone.
The Earth drowns in black water that kills if touched. Harry searches for the Hope of Humanity, a
machine that can save his people. Instead, he finds Aakesh, the most beautiful and terrifying creature he’s
ever seen - but mastery of this Sundered One comes at a price.
Medium Synopsis:
The world I know is flooded. You don’t go in the water. You don't touch it. If you do, it will get you,
drag you down, and you're gone.
Four hundred years ago, the water was still blue.
Four hundred years ago, no one had heard of Sundered Ones or the telepathic “claim” that enslaves them.
Four hundred years ago, humans ruled the Earth. Now, the Earth drowns in black water that kills if
touched, and humanity limps into its final hour.
In a small boat, Harry searches for the Hope of Humanity, a machine that—according to legend—can
save his people. Instead, he finds Aakesh: the most beautiful and terrifying Sundered One he’s ever seen.
Claiming is Harry’s natural response—
But mastery of this Sundered One comes at a price.
Long Synopsis:
Harry Iskinder knows the rules. Don't touch the water, or it will pull you under. Conserve food, because
there's no arable land. Use Sundered slaves gently, or they die too quickly to be worthwhile.
With extinction on the horizon and a world lost to deadly flood, Harry searches for a cure: the Hope of
Humanity, the mysterious artifact that gave humans control over the Sundered centuries ago. According
to legend, the Hope can fix the planet.
But the Hope holds more secrets than Harry knows. Powerful Sundered Ones willingly bow to him just to
get near it. Ambitious enemies pursue him, sure that the Hope is a weapon. Friends turn their backs, afraid
Harry will choose wrong.
And Harry has a choice to make. The time for sharing the Earth is done. Either the Sundered survive and
humanity ends, or humanity lives for a while, but the Sundered are wiped out.
He never wanted this choice. He still has to make it. In his broken, flooded world, Hope comes with a
price.
Sample Reviews
“There are movies you watch, works of art you see, poems and books you read that you walk away from
going ‘whoa.’ This was one of them for me. Complete gut-punch-powerful ending that reminded me of
the experience of walking away from the big reveal in Ender’s Game.”
~ Leah Petersen
“A bold, and courageous first novel - Reid doesn't back down when the characters get uncomfortable,
offering her readers an honest, twisted, and heart-breaking account of the young boy who must decide
whether the continued existence of the human race is worth enslaving an entire species.”
~ J. M. Frey
“A book that should not be missed, The Sundered is an unsettling novel, but it is unsettling in the best
way possible.”
~ Aaron Pound
“The Sundered is fabulously different -- the mark of a strong new voice--and a totally unique story that
had me completely enthralled.”
~ Tahlia Newland
“If you like your books entertaining, if you like your books to keep you guessing, if you like a unique,
fresh story, then The Sundered is the book for you.”
~ The Kindle Book Review
5 Points of Interest about the Book’s Content or Story: (Optional)
1. Point of Interest
The first line of the book: “The world I know is flooded.”
2. Point of Interest.
Harry often uses slang that would be familiar to today’s ear (like “cool”). This is intentional. Harry’s
society devolved from our own, and the language he speaks developed from the one we speak now. With
no outside influences and over four hundred years of limited use, that language would not change very
much.
3. Point of Interest.
Caucasian, as a race, no longer exists. A very small portion of surviving humanity was what we would
call “white,” and four centuries of breeding has blurred all genetic lines.
4. Point of Interest.
“Iskinder” means “savior of mankind” in Ethiopian.
5. Point of Interest.
The Sundered Ones do not have the ability to invent from scratch. They have to create based on what
they’ve already experienced, which is one of the reasons they once enjoyed human so enthusiastically.
Humans can (and do) invent things that never existed all the time, providing imagination-fodder for the
Sundered.
Book Details and Purchase Information
The Sundered
By: Ruthanne Reid
Published by: 4th Floor Publication
Available for Sale at: Amazon, Barnes and Noble, IndieBound, Powell’s, Books-a-Million
Retail Price for Print: $14.99
Retail Price for eBook: $2.99
Softcover Print ISBN: 978-0-9852600-0-2
eBook ISBN: 978-0-9852600-1-9
Book Website: http://amongthemythos.com
Publisher Website: http://4thfloorpublication.com
Author Website: http://amongthemythos.com
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