Sentient (The Sentient Trilogy) - Softcover

Book 1 of 3: The Sentient Trilogy

VanLandingham, Jay

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Synopsis

USA 2040: Animal agriculture has drastically changed the climate and the way people live. Drinkable water is scarce, the population is suspicious and isolated, and animal rights activists are all but extinct due to threats by the agribusiness industry.

Bray Hoffman isn’t an activist, but she has a secret. Her best friend Alice is a pig confined to a tortuous life on a factory farm and Bray can feel everything Alice feels. All the pain. All the fear. All the torture. As an animal empath, Bray learns first-hand the truth of the hidden horrors of animal agriculture and with Alice’s days coming to an end, Bray fears what might happen to the pig, and to herself.

Bertan Duarte is an undocumented immigrant working for this agribusiness industry. The secret world in which he works is mired in the dried blood of countless lives lost, where workers must fight both themselves and each other to survive an unfair system that has them trapped in enslavement.

Kage Zair has spent years in hiding with other animal activists. The landscape is far too dangerous for people like them. But Kage cannot just stand by and allow a manipulative agribusiness to destroy animal and human lives and the planet.

Sentient is the first book in a new eco-dystopian series that follows Bray, Bertan and Kage as they fight for answers and freedoms in a society that wishes them none. Told from all three perspectives, this page-turning debut novel is full of action, adventure, suspense and horror.

This isn’t the future we fought for but it’s the future that’s coming.

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About the Author

Jay VanLandingham (they/them) is the author of The Animalist Code novellas and the dystopian novel Sentient.
As an avid animal rights activist and longtime vegan, Jay's writing focuses primarily on issues of climate change, animal agriculture, and the significance of nature as a place to call home.
Jay holds a Master's degree in Social Work as well as a Bachelor's degree in English. When not writing, Jay can be found coaching clients on spiritual direction for creative paths and teaching young people how to cook plant-based food.
Jay is based in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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