A Brother's Secret

by Andy Graham

  On a day when the world is struggling to stay sane, and is being ravaged by biblical plagues, what price will two teenagers pay for their past?

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  The Cast of This Book

  The Settlements/ Free Towns/ Bucket Towns

  Tear

  Ray Franklin – corporal in the 10th Legion

  Rose Franklin – Ray’s mother

  Donarth Taille (deceased) – Ray’s father (born in Axeford)

  Frederick ‘Rick’ Franklin (missing) – Ray’s maternal grandfather

  Stann Taille – Ray’s paternal grandfather (born in Axeford)

  Lenka Zemlicka – Ray’s neighbour & surrogate Aunt

  Ben/ ‘Latch’ – a small boy from the village

  Axeford

  Skovsky (deceased) – member of the 10th Legion

  Tino Martinez – former 10th legionnaire, now a cleaner in the Kickshaw in the capital.

  New Town

  Baris Orr – sub-corporal in the 10th Legion

  The Gates

  Ailan (The capital city of Ailan) and other cities

  Bethina Laudanum – the president

  The vice-president

  David Prothero – Spokesperson for the Unions (born in New Town)

  Reza Aalok – captain in the 10th Legion

  Ernest Hamid – sergeant in the 10th Legion

  Jamerson Nascimento – sub-corporal in the 10th Legion

  Stella Swann – doctor/ medical researcher

  Dan Swann - Stella’s husband

  Lynn - manager of The Kickshaw

  James Lind – professor/ chief scientist at camp X517

  James Avery – researcher at camp X517 (born in a Free Town)

  Joanna Miescher – researcher at camp X517

  Wu-Brocker – dermatologist/ former clinical lead of camp X517

  The medi-sec – military hospital administrator

  Neufeld - doctor/ clinical lead therapist surgeon colonel (PhD. BAMF!)

  Wilson - police sergeant

  The Famulus – leader of the Ward (the secret society)

  Willa Chester – General of the Ailan Army

  James - Sci-Captain from Sci-Corps

  The Donian Mountains

  Karlyne Brooke – corporal in the 10th Legion

  Kaleyne - one of the Elders

  Eleyka - one of the Elders

  Karaan - one of the Elders

  Lukaz - leader of the Hoyden (a group of rebels and misfits within the Donian tribes)

  The Ailan Military

  The 10th Legion

  Captain Reza Aalok

  Sergeant Ernest Hamid

  Corporal Karlyne Brooke

  Corporal Ray Franklin

  Sub-corporal Jamerson Nascimento

  Sub-corporal Baris Orr

  Skovsky (deceased)

  Martinez (military veteran)

  non 10th Legion

  General Willa Chester

  Clinical Lead Therapist Surgeon Colonel Doctor Neufeld (PhD!)

  Sci-Captain James

  Acknowledgements

  (This is my first book. I may get a little carried away here . . .)

  The beta readers who trawled through an early draft of Franklin, and gave me invaluable feedback: Michael Bolan, Fernando Nascimento Araujo, Guy Bennett, John Evans, Haemish Graham, Liz Knight, Anne Tatlow, and Andy Taylor.

  My fantastic editor, Nicole Ayers, (aka the ‘comma queen’) for knocking the manuscript into shape, pointing out the plot holes, and (very patiently) dealing with my random approach to punctuation. Any mistakes that survived the cull are all mine, especially the commas. I hate commas.

  The amazing covers were designed by Stuart Bache of Books Covered.

  My hyperactive, rebellious, noisy, disobedient, stubborn, wilful, relentless children for being exactly who you are. (I am hoping, though, that by the time you can read and understand this paragraph, you’ll have grown out of these traits.)

  Above all, to my wife, who I’m not sure any author, lyricist or wordsmith could do justice, let alone a ‘rook’ just cutting his teeth.

  Copyright and Disclaimer

  Copyright © Andrew Graham 2015

  All rights reserved.

  No part of this book may be used, reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by information storage or retrieval system, without the written permission of the author, except where permitted by law, or in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.

  This book is a work of fiction. Any resemblance between the characters in it and real people, events or organisations is entirely co-incidental.