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    The Way Life Was Forever
    The Way Life Was Forever
    The Way Life Was Forever
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    The Way Life Was Forever

    By Carey Corp

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    Sun-dwellers are fowl monsters that eat a human’s flesh from their bones...or so sixteen-year-old Lyra has always been taught. To keep their citizens safe, her colony seals itself into the vaults by day.

    Moonwalkers are horrible beasts that feed on the blood of men...at least, that is what Perseus was told. The only sure survival for his people is to lock themselves into their repositories each night.

    Both labeled as undesirable by their respective kinds, a fated meeting in the forbidden forest offers Lyra and Perseus an unexpected chance at happiness. If they can overcome their own prejudices and discover the truth about one another before time runs out.

    Can the sun-dweller and the moonwalker learn that when reality is distorted by hate and terror sometimes the only thing to truly fear is fear itself?
    THE WAY LIFE WAS FOREVER – a YA short story from award-winning author, Carey Corp.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCarey Corp
    Release dateNov 13, 2011
    ISBN9781465978448
    The Way Life Was Forever
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    Carey Corp

    Carey Corp lives in the metropolitan Midwest with her loveable yet out-of-control family. Carey wrote her first book at the age of seven, and currently begins each morning consuming copious amounts of coffee while weaving stories that capture her exhaustive imagination. She harbors a voracious passion (in no consistent order) for mohawks, Italy, musical theater, chocolate, and Jane Austen. Carey’s debut novel for teens, The Halo Chronicles: The Guardian, earned her national recognition as 2010 Golden Heart finalist for best young adult fiction and was recently featured at the 2012 RT Booklovers Convention in Chicago in YA Alley.

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