Patrick, born in 1985, started writing when he was only nine, delivering his first short story to his Mom for her birthday. Reawakening in a world strangely transformed, Luke sets out to uncover the truth about his new reality-joining forces with Angela, a girl he had seen previously in his dreams, in a desperate race for survival that will propel them across the threshold of an insidious global conspiracy that threatens the future of all humanity.**Īuthor Timothy R.

The first book in the 'Beyond the Veil' series, Platform 21 follows teenager Luke Gibson up to and beyond his death in a horrific terrorist attack in Denver in the year 2052. Patrick joins the ranks of Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games), Veronica Roth (Divergent), Pittacus Lore (I Am Number Four) and other masters of YA speculative suspense fiction. **With Platform 21, a brilliantly inventive and unrelentingly exciting excursion to a troubled near-future, author T.R. And now their determination to uncover the truth about Laura's murder and their transformed world is making them targets-forced to flee for their lives from a nameless shadow organization and a government seeking vengeance for an unthinkable act of terror-as they stand on the threshold of a dark conspiracy that threatens all humankind. Angela, his mysterious dream girl, is here also, and the only person besides Luke who recalls the previous reality. His sister is gone, the victim in an unsolved homicide years before. Suddenly, inexplicably, Luke is back home in Ohio and everything is different. The last thing Luke sees before his death is a girl reaching out to him-a stranger whose face he remembers from his dreams. Joining his parents and sister, Laura, at the first World Energy Initiative Conference, he is among thousands gathered in a Denver arena to celebrate free renewable energy when a massive earthquake strikes killing everyone in the stadium. In the year 2052, high school sophomore Luke Gibson considers himself an average teenager in a world on the brink of monumental change. Luke's life is about to take a dangerous turn.

Platform 21 by T.R. Patrick