Adverse Reactions

In a world where difference means death, one girl fights back with the power they fear most.Since she was six years old, Devin Perridin has been locked behind the walls of the family home to keep her hidden from those who would kill her. But at sixteen, she is exposed as a 'Syke,' one of an outlawed minority who possess extraordinary powers of mind over matter. Snatched from hiding, she escapes the firing squad, but only to be imprisoned in a house of horrors: the Peaceful Hills Sanatorium and Rehabilitation Center for the Treatment of Persistent Mental Disorders. After an unknown time of torture and 'behavior modification,' brutally designed to destroy her psychokinetic reflexes, she emerges from the asylum severely damaged in mind and spirit. Her salvation may lie in the series of crimes triggered by her release: first kidnapping, then attempted murder, and then a mustering of forbidden forces to assault the remote pseudo-psychiatric facility where she had been tortured into near-mindlessness.Drawing upon a strength she had always known was hers but had never before been able to consciously control, Devin defies the authoritarian society with its unjust laws that demand her death. She pushes through pain, isolation, and moral quandaries to seek justice for not only herself, but all members of a maligned and cruelly persecuted minority.Step into a harrowing world where survival means resisting a brutal system built to destroy those who are different. Adverse Reactions is a dark standalone novel about persecution, psychokinetic power, and what it means to reclaim your mind after someone has tried to erase it. For readers who enjoy dystopian fiction, paranormal suspense, and weird Westerns.'Adverse Reactions is an imaginative standalone novel that successfully combines paranormal abilities, dystopian oppression, and Western storytelling into a compelling tale of survival and redemption. Readers looking for character-driven speculative fiction with emotional depth, atmospheric world-building, and meaningful themes will find this an engaging and memorable read.' - The Lit Credence 6