Teri Terry's debut novel, Slated, is a tense and darkly compelling look at government control of young adults, set in the near future.
Sixteen-year-old Kyla is new to the world. She has no memories, no idea as to who she was or what she did to deserve being "slated." She's re-learned how to walk and talk and is part of a family she's never known, living in a house she's never seen before. Kyla's entire memory and personality were wiped--slated--by the government for a crime she doesn't remember committing. Could she really have been a terrorist, as she's been told? As Kyla begins to forge a new life, relearning how to draw and indulging in thoughts of romance, fear and doubt creep in. Her fear seems justified, as her classmates are disappearing, she is closely watched by the government and flashes of what she thinks could be memories are forming in her head. What do those wisps of memory mean? Could they get her, and maybe even her new family, permanently wiped?
Slated will keep readers pinned to their chairs. This thought-provoking book will have fans waiting impatiently for the sequel, Fractured. --René Kirkpatrick, bookseller, blogger and co-owner of Eagle Harbor Book Company