The Intuitives

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Publisher Name
Trash Dogs Media LLC
Age Range
12+
Release Date
July 25, 2017
ISBN13
978-1946137012

IMAGINATION JUST BECAME OUR GREATEST WEAPON.

In Egypt, an archaeological team discovers the lost tomb of Alexander the Great. Seven years later, every public school student in America takes a strange new test, but only six are chosen to attend a summer program at the mysterious Institute for the Cultivation of Intuitive Cognition, where nothing is as it appears to be, including the students themselves.

Roman Jackson, 11—the lonely artist. Sees things. Around people. Things he can never, ever tell.

Samantha Prescott, 16—the sarcastic nerd. Isolated by a premonition even she doesn’t understand.

Daniel Walker, 17—the shy musician. Hides his private thoughts in the soundtrack of his mind.

Kaitlyn Wright, 15—the bubbly engineer. Can fix anything, except the one thing that matters most.

Mackenzie Gray, 17—the disciplined athlete. Armors her deepest fears against a world she can’t control.

Ashton Hunt, 17—the frustrated gamer. Hoping to turn pro, and a constant disappointment to his father.

But why is the U.S. government so interested in six outcasts? And what, exactly, is it teaching them to do? Now, they must band together to uncover the true purpose behind the institute—and the ancient secrets that lie hidden beneath its surface.

Before history catches up to them.

IMAGINATION JUST BECAME OUR GREATEST WEAPON.

In Egypt, an archaeological team discovers the lost tomb of Alexander the Great. Seven years later, every public school student in America takes a strange new test, but only six are chosen to attend a summer program at the mysterious Institute for the Cultivation of Intuitive Cognition, where nothing is as it appears to be, including the students themselves.

Roman Jackson, 11—the lonely artist. Sees things. Around people. Things he can never, ever tell.

Samantha Prescott, 16—the sarcastic nerd. Isolated by a premonition even she doesn’t understand.

Daniel Walker, 17—the shy musician. Hides his private thoughts in the soundtrack of his mind.

Kaitlyn Wright, 15—the bubbly engineer. Can fix anything, except the one thing that matters most.

Mackenzie Gray, 17—the disciplined athlete. Armors her deepest fears against a world she can’t control.

Ashton Hunt, 17—the frustrated gamer. Hoping to turn pro, and a constant disappointment to his father.

But why is the U.S. government so interested in six outcasts? And what, exactly, is it teaching them to do? Now, they must band together to uncover the true purpose behind the institute—and the ancient secrets that lie hidden beneath its surface.

Before history catches up to them.

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Publisher's Note:

The Intuitives was edited by Sybil Carey, a former editor at Harbridge House. She spent her later years as a freelance editor and co-director of the Abbie Greenleaf Library in Franconia, NH. She "went to dance with the stars" on Sunday, December 20, 2015. The Intuitives was her final editing project.

Although she died before she had the opportunity to write a formal editor's review, Sybil spoke often of her love for these authors and for this book in particular. "The writing is so vivid!" she would say. "The characters are so real!" We wish she were still with us--for far more personal reasons than for the review she would have written.

"I love being part of this team. xoxoxoxo," she wrote on October 5, 2014. We've run our fingers over the x's and o's a thousand times since, cherishing each one, wishing they were more than just memories. She is credited for her editing on the very first page of The Intuitives, and she is in the final acknowledgments as well: "Sybil Carey--for being our angel, even when you still walked this earth." The book both begins and ends with her.

We hope readers will love it and believe in it as much as she did.
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