Shadows and Bonds

📖 The Scoop

With the character-driven drama of All Our Yesterdays and the psychological thrills of the Mara Dyer trilogy, Shadows and Bonds: Connection is a deep, emotional journey through the human mind, and what it means to be truly connected to one another.

Was it really an accident, or was it calculation?

This decade’s technological revolution, Bonding takes two compatible people and links their minds together. Although not at the level of reading people’s thoughts, it’s still like steroids for your brain; you get smarter, and by getting smarter you get faster, stronger, just better.

So why is Martin Kelly so hesitant to get Bonded to his high school sweetheart, Pola? Maybe, because Bonding is for life. Probably, because he’s never been good at making decisions for himself. But in order to become a trainee at the Chicago Police Academy of Bonding Technology, Martin is required to become mind-linked. The right choice appears obvious.

Meg Sawyer defies the obvious. As a matter of fact, she has done so seventeen times. Already a trainee in the Academy, Meg believes that Bonding is an overrated, societal fad. She wants no part of it. But to stay in the Academy, she has one last chance: Bond with fellow student, Tuscan Hatch, or get kicked out. 

But when an incident occurs in the Bonding labs, Meg and Martin's reservations become their realities. All plans and futures disrupted, they must learn how to turn a mistake into an opportunity, discord into connection, all while a calculating shadow creeps plays at the fringes of their subconscious minds...

Genre: Fiction / Science Fiction / Action & Adventure (fancy, right?)