The Mission

About the Book

Karen was an ordinary girl, living an ordinary life in the year 2124 on a space station Academy floating on the outskirts of Orion’s belt, titled Orion University.  In the academy every cadet must be tested before he or she is allowed into the elite program, a program where cadets are made captains and captains are made into council members. A program Karen’s sister Alyssa has resided in for well over two years. It is now Karen’s time to make the journey, with her best friend at her side and a few others, four girls’s lives will change. Life as they know it will be tested, new friendships will be formed and old ones will be lost. Promises will be broken and lying will become second nature. Mystery aboard a ship used for routine voyages, a test given to all cadets at their given time, a task that must be achieved at whatever the cost. Destinies will be written and Karen will change more than she ever thought she could, in her decision to take, the mission.

About the Author

I was twelve when I first started writing for a purpose, but I really began writing in first and second grade. Story telling was my passion and still is to this day, just now I get it down on paper. I write everyday, sometimes it’s a poem or a song, and sometimes it’s another bit of one of my books, but either way I write every single day of my life, and I love it. Writing is something that can never be described, it’s a release from all the pressures in life, and practicing it gives me a perspective on things most teenagers only dream about. I got the inspiration for this particular book in the seventh grade, I used to jot down my ideas on lined pieces of paper in my school notebooks. In those notebooks, the character Karen was born and so was her story. This novel is based on those years of adolescence that can be hard on children, especially those who feel lost and rejected from all points of the social aspect of society. As a child in those years you find yourself grasping for people that make you feel like an actual person, that get you, your hopes, and who you are exactly. Looking for the ones that will love you for who you are, your faults, imperfections, and your achievements as well.  These people that pick you up from whatever ditch you have fallen into are called your friends. The Mission is a drastic tale of friendship, and the hardships that come with making and losing friends while you are growing up. I myself, have been tortured with the bonds of friendships that have come in and out of my life. Bits of every single friend I have ever had lie within these characters, even parts of myself. The Mission depicts every action of my life to this day, just on a more violent and drastic scale. It took me three years to perfect it, I only hope I did the art of friendship justice.

            As Samuel Johnson once said “We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over."