Immortal Mistake
By (Author) Adele Jones
Wombat Books
Rhiza Edge
1st August 2023
Australia
Young Adult
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Science fiction
Paperback
268
Width 133mm, Height 203mm
For as long as Rennie Parkers been alive, his parents have foughtabout money, about life, but mostly about him being the biggest mistake of their lives. His half-brother, Blaine Colton, seems to have landed a sweet deal with his adoptive family, and Rennie cant help being envious. When a night of domestic turmoil lands his mother in hospital and his father a thread away from arrest, Rennie gets his wish of staying with his brothers familybut thats not before he witnesses a stranger with bionic powers unearthing a high-tech vault in his backyard. Determined to discover the purpose of the strangers visit, he manages to secure the top-secret contents of the vault with inexplicable links to his brother. This lands him in a world of pain with a time gap he cant explain, and an accusation of arson. When the one person he trusts, Blaine, turn against him, Rennie has to figure things out on his own. Left with a video of glowing hands, part of a dead scientists lecture on immortality, terrifying dreams about misused children and his fragmented memories, he must piece these clues together before If only he could remember.
Adele Jones writes young adult near-science fiction exploring the underbelly of bioethics and confronting teen issues that include disability, self-worth, loss and more. Her first novel Integrate was awarded the 2013 CALEB Prize for unpublished manuscript.