02549cam a2200421 i 4500 350201140 TxAuBib 20170113120000.0 151104t20172016||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780765337917 $25.99 0765337916 $25.99 (OCoLC)936069773 TRACS eng TRACS YDXCP BTCTA BDX OCLCQ GMP OCLCO OCLCF OCLCO FN4 OCLCO OCL OCLCO VTL OCLCO IK2 ZGV ALH TxAuBib rda Graham, Heather. The rising / Heather Graham and Jon Land. First edition. New York : Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates book, 2017. ©2016. 397 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Twenty-four hours. That's all it takes for the lives of two young people to be changed forever. Alex Chin has the world on a plate. A football hero and homecoming king with plenty of scholarship offers, his future looks bright. His tutor, Samantha Dixon, is preparing to graduate high school at the top of her class. She plans to turn her NASA internship into a career. When a football accident lands Alex in the hospital, his world is turned upside down. His doctor is murdered. Then, his parents. Death seems to follow him wherever he goes, and now it's after him. Alex flees. He tells Samantha not to follow, but she became involved the moment she walked through his door and found Mr. and Mrs. Chin as they lay dying in their home. She cannot abandon the young man she loves. The two race desperately to stay ahead of Alex's attackers long enough to figure out why they are hunting him in the first place. The answer lies with a secret buried deep in his past, a secret his parents died to protect. Alex always knew he was adopted, but he never knew the real reason his birth parents abandoned him. He never knew where he truly came from. Until now"--Amazon.com. 20170113. Teenagers Fiction. Teenagers. Extraterrestrial beings Fiction. Murder Fiction. Murder Investigation Fiction. Murder Investigation. Adopted children Fiction. Adopted children. Science fiction. Suspense fiction. Thrillers (Fiction.) Fiction. Land, Jon, author.