Dystopian Fantasy
New Adult
Reader-nominated for a 2018 Cybils award (Recompense).
Recompense (book one)
When Jack’s investigation unearths a missing woman who looks identical to her, the trail leads to a government coverup that will alter her life forever.
An orphan with no past, Jaclyn Holloway grasps her one chance to escape poverty in Capernica’s lowest caste—the high school Exit Exam. If she meets the same physical requirements as the men, she will be inducted into the military. If she fails, she’ll be cut off from Will, and their marriage postponed for twenty years.
Jack’s score lands her at Axis, the agency investigating a recent string of abducted girls. Working with the too-attentive Captain Alston, she uncovers evidence leading back forty-seven years to similar cases at the nation’s birth…when something sinister was loosed among the castes. Something tolerated at the highest levels of government.
Abandoning the case means Jack may never unlock the secrets of her own past, but pursuing the truth will place her, Will, and her adopted family in the government’s crosshairs.
Fans of Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Divergent by Veronica Roth will devour Recompense‘s high stakes, fast pace, and unexpected twists.
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Betrayal (book two)
Capernica has erupted into war, but they’re fighting the wrong enemy.
Axis has neutralized the Bruel operatives working in Capernica, but no safeguards exist to prevent a new wave from infiltrating the country. Jack and her teammates must enter the portal and bring the fight to Brunay. But even as they prepare to invade, revolution splits Capernica along caste lines.
Meanwhile, Will joins Axis, and Jack isn’t prepared for the strain his presence places on her partnership with Ethan. When Jack and her team attempt to rally the nation against their common enemy, Governor Macron opts to divert resources toward crushing the rebels and shuts Axis down.
In a last, desperate effort to end the Bruel threat and secure Capernican peace, Jack accepts a mission that will label her a traitor. When she is betrayed, she can save only one—will she choose her nation? Or the man she loves?
Retribution (book three)
Enslaved and powerless, Jack watches Capernica’s revolution burn to ashes.
As the revolution’s contingency plan, Jack was tasked with assassinating Governor Macron after the rebel assault on the Macron City Military Base imploded. But she failed, the person she loves most betrayed her, and the revolution lies in ruins.
Alone in Brunay, Jack becomes a cog in the vast Bruelim slave economy. When she won’t kowtow to authority, she’s marked for death. Meanwhile, Will’s genetics have succumbed to the portal’s radiation and he’s lost all self-determination.
With the entire Bruel army standing between her and freedom, Jack struggles to find a way to bring her tyrannized people home. But how can she leave when Will is still locked in the mindless body of a Burkim?
Reprisal (book four)
The portal closed early, leaving Ethan stranded in Brunay.
Ethan desperately hopes the portal explosion didn’t destroy all doors between worlds. If even one survived, he intends to find it. But he can’t do it alone. He must locate Ahava Wassam, his one Bruel contact, though he hates placing himself at her mercy again.
The loss of Brunay’s labor force puts tremendous strain on the remaining Capernicans. Ethan burns to lead the emancipation movement, but he’s a fugitive with a price on his head. And an alliance with Ahava will never succeed if they can’t lay aside their contempt for one another.
When Ahava is arrested for crimes against Brunay, Ethan’s honor—and his heart—demand he turn himself in. It means leaving his countrymen leaderless and condemning them to lives of degradation and servitude. But if he does not, Ahava will die.
Abduction (book five)
Ruby suffers the plight of The Missing when she’s stolen from her homeland and sold as a slave.
Desperate to escape the confines of her hometown, Ruby Parnell decides to elope with her boyfriend. Heartbroken when she catches him cheating, she flees to the woods alone and awakens a slave in an enemy land.
Ruby’s Bruel captors assign her to a “farm” with a hundred other women and force her to serve as breeding stock for their flagging population. She loathes the child she carries yet grieves when the Bruelim steal her newborn daughter.
When Ruby leads a desperate attempt to overthrow the facility, the Bruel army crushes their uprising. A solo escape remains her only option to avoid the cycle of abuse. But flight means abandoning her friends and her child to endless torment.
Provocation (book six)
(Opal’s story, a novella-length prequel, free to my newsletter subscribers.)
My sister’s gone. No body, no evidence, no motive. Only my guilt remains.
Opal Parnell assumes she will marry her best friend Billy Wildon, until her younger sister Ruby steals his eye. The night Billy realizes his mistake, Ruby catches him kissing Opal and flees to the woods alone. She never comes back.
Ruby joins a list of thousands who have gone missing across the North American Republic, and the overwhelmed authorities uncover no leads. Wracked by guilt, Opal sets out to find her alone, even as the panicked nation erupts in revolution.
When a faction steals control of the government, Opal discovers evidence connecting the disappearances to the coup’s leaders. Then Billy proposes, and Opal’s heart rends in two. Though she longs to accept, she cannot abandon her sister. But those who ask questions turn up dead.
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