Annabelle Scott (16) is out of step with her post-Second Civil War society. Males are exiled, quarantined or forced to fight to the death to train the military elite by the same regime that took her biological parents when she was three, an ache that won't go away. With her adoptive mom closely watched in the political opposition, Annabelle can't burden her or her beloved younger sister with her need to find her birth mother or her attraction to a handsome redheaded boy she spies at a local prison. The state forces Annabelle to become a cop intern to catch fugitive boys. She helps the...

The first time Geo Shaw (19) sees Annabelle Scott (19), they meet as enemies and she doesn't kill him, which mystifies them both. It's after the Second American Civil War with the nation divided into the all-female Federal Union and the warlord controlled Outland. Geo is a rugged frontiersman who hungers to bust loose from the impoverished Outland glen where he and his pa hide from the local warlord's Rangers and Federal Mechanized Warriors. Annabelle is out of step with her Federal society where males are hunted, imprisoned, and used to train the Mech Corps that took her parents when she was...

Chilling short story of government surveillance. At the intersection of global tracking, pervasive networks, mass storage, and the Patriot Act, we have the ability and some say the obligation to know everything about everyone. Can privacy survive? Can the individual endure? Harold is a second-class citizen and a cog in a government surveillance system charged with reviewing "criminal activity." He has private thoughts about a woman he's forbidden from approaching, and he will not be deterred.

Security Chief Nina Rekovic keeps the peace on the all-female Maiden's Ark that left Earth five years before. Distress signal says Earth is lost, stranding lunar colonists. Someone sabotages the vital fertility lab. While balancing Returners she sympathizes with, a dictatorial captain, and an estranged lover who betrays her, can Rekovic solve the conspiracy before she's imprisoned or worse?

Voices in sixteen-year-old Annabelle Scott's head aren't God or signs she's going mad-yet. Despite being a Mech Warrior recruit, she rebels against her female-dominated regime by not only refusing to kill Morgan, a handsome boy she's attracted to, but also helping him escape. Annabelle's commander gives her auditory implants and contact cameras for an undercover assignment to investigate her corrupt police captain. Morgan hacks the implants to plead for her help in freeing his brother. As a pawn in a bigger game, she wants to help Morgan yet needs to discover the link between an attempted...

Regina Shen is an outcast forced to fend for herself in a world that bans books. An approaching storm could be the least of her problems. Perfect for fans of the "Hunger Games," "Divergent," and "Maze Runner" series, "Regina Shen: Resilience" is the first book in an action-packed, science fiction thriller with an ordinary yet strong female heroine facing extraordinary hurdles with resolve. With the young protagonist having to grow up fast, it should appeal to both young adult and adult audiences. The World Federation condemns Regina and her family to live on the seaward side of barrier walls....

Abrupt climate change melted ice caps and flooded coasts. Outcast Regina Shen has unique DNA that the World Federation's Department of Antiquities believes can prevent human extinction. Not trusting them, Regina jumps the barrier wall into the Federation to hunt for her sister, kidnapped by Antiquities two years earlier. To get close to her sister, she has to sneak onto a closed-university campus with heavy security. Then she has to use her wits to escape and find her sister without letting either of two rival Antiquities inspectors capture her. With time running out, can she rescue her...

Third book in Regina Shen series. Abrupt climate change melted ice caps, flooded coasts, and expanded deserts. Outcast Regina Shen is a fugitive the World Federation believes has DNA that can stop human extinction. Rival Federation agents fight over capturing Regina to gain power amidst turmoil over who will become the new World Premier. Regina has to flee from Virginia through desert and wilderness to Alaska to hunt a treasure big enough to barter for her freedom and that of her sister. Can she find allies and tools to remain free long enough to find something to trade?

Living on the seaward side of barrier walls built to protect against rising seas, the only means of survival for Regina Shen is underwater salvage, which is banned by the World Federation. After a storm takes a friend's family and home, Regina is determined to help by defying the Federation