BLOG TOUR & GIVEAWAY ~ A MEASURE OF SERENITY by Bryan Prosek

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About The Book:

Title: A MEASURE OF SERENITY

Author: Bryan Prosek

Pub. Date: July 20, 2021

Publisher: CamCat Books

Formats: Hardcover, Paperback, eBook, Audiobook

Pages: 368

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A million thoughts, but only one right thing to do.

Eighteen-year-old Serenity Ashdown has a brilliant mind: she counts, calculates, and analyzes everything, even when she doesn’t want to. Her memory is also far beyond photographic, surpassing her physicist father’s abilities. But her world was otherwise normal right up until dimension-hopping enemies forced her into a parallel reality. The feds she meets on the other side claim to want to help her go home. All she has to do is use her memory to reconstruct the right sequence of codes. But it’s soon clear they want something more: a gateway for invasion, because this version of Earth is dying.

Serenity can’t risk returning home with a deadly force behind her, but the feds aren’t about to let her escape. Then she learns that the “other Serenity,” her alter-ego in this dimension, was a resistance leader recently betrayed and
killed. She has a chance to assume her alter-ego’s identity and use her unique ability to lead the resistance in their fight against the tyrannical super-government that is poised to invade her universe. Serenity has no idea how to be someone she’s not, but she has to try—or she may not even have a home to return to.

Review:

“Readers will enjoy following Serenity as she learns to become a leader . . . in this dystopian thriller showcasing a strong young woman in STEM.” –Kirkus Reviews

EXCERPT

My mind replays that night for me like a movie, whether I want it to or not. I can never erase an image, no matter how hard I try, especially not this one.

I was staring out the backseat window of our family car. The October night was as black as the cat on my Halloween T-shirt. The wipers intermittently creaked across the windshield, removing driz- zle so my dad could see. I liked the darkness. I zoomed in on my reflection in the window—a ten-year-old girl with blonde hair and blue eyes trying not to calculate and count everything in sight. The mirror image helped me relax, and my eyelids grew heavy, my head dropped forward. My reflex jerked my head up and opened my eyes, just to repeat the process. It had been a long drive from New York City to Hancock, New Hampshire, but we were so close to Grandma and Grandpa’s farm and I didn’t want to fall asleep. I leaned my head against the glass. Wisps of fog skated over the window, adding an eerie tone to the darkness outside.

I had started to nod off again when my little brother’s cry startled me. He was strapped into a baby carrier in the seat beside me. My mom unbuckled her seatbelt and twisted around to stroke his little arms and legs. “It’s okay, Jona. Mommy’s here. Go back to sleep.”

Just as quickly as the crying started, it stopped. I leaned to my right to look through the windshield. The fog was lifting some, at least on that stretch of road. I could make out trees along the side of the road. I recognized the thickly wooded area. We were getting close. My stomach churned a little with excitement. I would have no problem staying awake now.

My mom turned back around to rummage through the glove compartment.

“What are you looking for, Mom?” I asked. She did not answer but continued to search.

My dad turned his head to the right to look at me. “How are you doing back there, Peanut?” he asked.

Peanut. That was his special name just for me. I loved it. So much more playful than Serenity, my real name. “Just fine. I cannot wait to see Grandma and Grandpa. I know we are close. How much longer until we get there?”

My dad looked at the instrument panel and then turned back to me. “We have twenty miles to go, and I’m driving fifty-five miles per hour.” “Twenty-one minutes and forty-nine seconds,” I said without hesitation.

About Bryan Prosek:

Bryan Prosek is a young adult writer and business attorney. Along with his first two novels, The Brighter the Stars and A Measure of Serenity, he has published books and articles in legal trade journals and magazines. When he isn’t writing or practicing law, you can probably find him watching dystopian and science fiction movies or television shows. He loves the big screen and the small screen. There’s a good chance that he’ll be watching one of the numerous Star Trek movies or series, but he could be watching anything from Guardians of the Galaxy to The Conjuring.

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