After the Contamination--an epidemic caused by the super-trendy diet drink Slim Pro that turned ordinary citizens into shambling creatures unable to control their violent impulses--the government rounded up the "Connies" to protect the remaining population.
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Em lives in the deep, dark woods of Pennsylvania with her husband and two monsters . "Contaminated" is her first novel for young adults.
Since then she\'s become well known and respected in the women\'s fiction world, authoring more than fifty books across almost every genre of romantic fiction.
But it wasn\'t until 2002 that she saw her own book published.
About the Author: After falling in love with Ray Bradbury\'s "Homecoming" in third grade, Em Garner\'s writing career began when she tried to make "improvements" on the short story.
Gritty and grabbing, Contaminated is a harrowing, emotionally charged dystopic venture into YA.
Even if it means risking all of their lives.
Velvet has to get the collar off her mother before the military comes to take her away.
Sacrificing everything--her boyfriend, her home, and her job--Velvet will do anything to protect her mother.
And then the government declares that the Connies will be rounded up and neutralized, once and for all.
Maybe, eventually, they\'ll be able to get back to the way things were before.
She goes to the "Kennels" every day searching for her parents, and when she finds her mother, she\'s eager to bring her home.
Since her parents were taken in the roundup, Velvet Ellis has struggled to care for her ten-year-old sister and maintain a sense of normalcy, despite brutal government rations and curfews.
But now, two years later, the government\'s started sending the rehabilitated back home, complete with shock collars that will either control, or kill, then.
After the Contamination--an epidemic caused by the super-trendy diet drink Slim Pro that turned ordinary citizens into shambling creatures unable to control their violent impulses--the government rounded up the "Connies" to protect the remaining population
