Jo Bristol has a tick ... she has visions of killing people.Los Angeles is under attack from cyber terrorists. In an effort to quell the threat, the city uses spy drones to seek out civilians with brain abnormalities and adjusts their neurons to remove any criminal tendencies. Jo has spent her whole life evading the drones and the imminent brain manipulation by keeping her tick a secret, until a week before her seventeenth birthday her visions threaten to become reality. Having always wanted to be a painter, Jo knows any adjustment to her brain could alter her artistic sense and she could lose all that makes her who she is. In order to survive amid the physical and psycological threats, Jo must hide the darkness in her mind or lose her muse completely. The first in a 3-Part series, TICK is the beginning of Jo's adventures.