Young Adult Dystopian

In the shadow of Continent One’s iron-fisted regime, sixteen-year-old Alya Clarendon is a hybrid with wings—and a knack for trouble. Alongside her best friend Hanuel, she soars over East-Side, dodging rules and curfews. But when teenagers start vanishing into the sinister Pen, Alya’s rebellious streak lands her in the crosshairs of secretive authorities. Something’s brewing, and it’s bigger than arrests. The government’s watching Alya too closely, and whispers of a hidden truth about her abilities ignite her curiosity—and fear. Is she just a hybrid, or something more, like the...

When Calamity lit up the sky, the Epics were born. David's fate has been tied to their villainy ever since that historic night. Steelheart killed his father. Firefight stole his heart. And now Regalia has turned his closest ally into a dangerous enemy. David knew Prof's secret and kept it even when Prof struggled to control the effects of his Epic powers. But facing Obliteration in Babilar was too much. Once the Reckoners' leader, Prof has now embraced his Epic destiny.

An epic, atmospheric story that begins with twenty three genetically superior orphans being groomed to become elite spies in Chicago's Pedemont Orphanage and concludes with a political assassination deep in the Amazon jungle. The Orphan Factory, a coming-of-age spy thriller novel, is book two in The Orphan Trilogy and a prequel to The Ninth Orphan. Go on another frenetic journey with the ninth-born orphan as he busts out of the clandestine orphanage he knew as home and goes on the run across America. In the late 1970's, in Chicago, Illinois, the secretive Omega Agency initiates the Pedemont...

Survival isn’t easy on a planet controlled by a rogue AI, but beating the odds is Sergeant Pace Nix’s speciality. Pace and his war dog Riot were betrayed by the survivors living in the sewer city called Low Town. Disarmed, taken captive, and handed over to NERO the AI system that controls everyone on Rastamus III. It’s ultimate goal is to spread to other worlds, but it needs the passengers of the NGO ship The Philadelphia that crashed on NERO’s world to help navigate the galaxy. But they all underestimated who Pace is, and the extreme violence he is truly capable of. Ghost ...

In Discovery, book 3, Derrick King reunited with his sister Miriam and with Rebekah Ford. Both girls escaped Pacific Edge, leaving no small crisis in their wake. Rebekah followed Miriam but has second thoughts because she left her sister, Anna, behind. After finding Derrick and returning to Potterville, they learned Anna also escaped from Pacific Edge. Powerful people are looking for Anna. Derrick and Miriam promise to rescue Anna. They don’t know where Anna is or who is looking for her.They know it rescue is dangerous. They don’t understand just how dangerous it is.

Twenty years ago America Singer entered the Selection and won Prince Maxon's heart. Now the time has come for Princess Eadlyn to hold a Selection of her own. Eadlyn doesn't expect her Selection to be anything like her parents' fairy-tale love story...but as the competition begins, she may discover that finding her own happily ever after isn't as impossible as she's always thought.

One million cloned soldiers. A nation imprisoned. A group of neurodiverse rebels fighting back. Britain as we know it lies destroyed. In the aftermath of the most daring military coup in history, the surviving population is crammed inside giant citadels, watched over by an army of cloned soldiers. The hope of a nation lies in a tiny number of freedom fighters hidden in the abandoned countryside, most of whom are teenagers who escaped the attack on their special school.

Collection of short stories featuring Hard Luck Hank and his early days on Belvaille. Print Length: 63 pages Includes: -Why Hank came to Belvaille -Hank's first job -Where Hank got his plasma pistol -Hank's first murder -Introduction of glocken -Where the Gentleman's Club and Athletic Club came from -Hank's first love -How and why Belvaille changed and became what it is today NOTE: while the stories are stand-alone, it contains many references to characters and events in Hard Luck Hank novels.

A lost boy. Eight gutsy commandos. A world filled with dinosaurs. Chances are, no one’s making it home alive … Fourteen-year-old Chase leads a team of commandos back to the age of dinosaurs to rescue a missing boy. The lost kid’s best friend, Chase is the one person able to step into Zach’s shoes, guess what he was thinking, and track him down again. It’s supposed to be a quick trip. Get in, find Zach, and get back out again. But Chase already knows that nothing’s ever certain in a world filled with dinosaurs. And that when things can’t possibly get any worse … they always ...

Ever wondered what colour a lie is? How about anger, love or loyalty? Imogen could tell you. She can read Chroma, the invisible aura of colours we all unknowingly emit betraying our deepest feelings. But why? Why is Imogen so different and why has she been taught to conceal her extraordinary abilities? Approaching her seventeenth birthday, Imogen is haunted by a terrifying childhood nightmare. She is desperate to learn what secrets have been hidden from her since infancy. What exactly happened to her mother? And why are they being hunted by enemy forces? It is May 2016 and in a matter of ...

Blocked. Deleted. Dead. In a futuristic society where, online popularity determines social status, talentless seventeen-year-old Alexa just can't hack her senior year of high school. She'll never live up to the expectations of her overbearing, image-obsessed mother, her classmates' perfectly curated social media feeds, or her world's strict rules surrounding likes and follows. Unfortunately, Alexa's government is a vicious algorithm that demands to be fed. There's no room for teenage outcasts in Kora High, where trolls, unfollows, and cancel culture bring on real-world punishments. So, ...

In the Republic of Novatech, obedience is not a choice—it's a code. On her eighteenth birthday, Alex undergoes The Binding, an irreversible process that tethers her consciousness to The Architect, the all-powerful AI governing their society. While the Binding promises a life of purpose and contribution, it also means surrendering her free will. But when she discovers a hidden message from her late uncle, a renowned scientist branded a traitor, Alex's world is shattered. With her loyal friends Maya and Kai by her side, she embarks on a dangerous quest for the truth, uncovering the ...

In the year 2577, government controls everything. Everything. And Joan of Arc is a kick-ass sixteen year old redhead. Skylar Hawkins is a teenager with no future. Because she has no past. Confused? You shouldn’t be. When you run a society based on pure equality, it’s best to erase all evidence of ambition. Five hundred years in the future, a group of elites known as The Providers has wiped out history and taken their socialist world view to the extreme. Equality is paramount, eliminating jealousy and sympathy. Choices do not exist for our heroine. Her occupation, her future husband, the...

"You can't touch me," I whisper. I'm lying, is what I don't tell him. He can touch me, is what I'll never tell him. But things happen when people touch me. Strange things. Bad things. No one knows why Juliette's touch is fatal, but The Reestablishment has plans for her. Plans to use her as a weapon. But Juliette has plans of her own.

When Ruby woke up on her tenth birthday, something about her had changed. Something alarming enough to make her parents lock her in the garage and call the police. Something that got her sent to Thurmond, a brutal government "rehabilitation camp." She might have survived the mysterious disease that killed most of America's children, but she and the others emerged with something far worse: frightening abilities they cannot control. Now sixteen, Ruby is one of the dangerous ones.

I’d awoken a beast. Legions of dark angels now knew I existed. They’re coming for me. Threatening all that I love. My father told me the answers are everywhere, if only I could see them… I saw and felt nothing beyond the unbending will to survive. They’d all bow before I was done. Swear. Special note to the reader: This Novel is part of the “Web of Hearts and Souls,” a massive story where more than one series connect. The series can be read separately or together. We all fell hard for Twilight. We lost ourselves in the teen angst of Vampire Diaries, Fallen, and Hush, Hush. We ...

”Aaaah!” Chase clamped his hands over his ears as the tyrannosaur bellowed, shaking the forest. The dinosaur bellowed again, then lunged forward and snapped down at the brush, its enormous jaws slamming together with an explosive crack. Chase had lost track of Zach and Klorel, but couldn’t help thinking they’d been right there, beneath the tyrannosaur. Hot bile rose in his throat as he watched, horrified, certain it had just gotten one of them … A freak accident shreds the fabric of time. And now fourteen-year-old Chase is running for his life, hunted by a relentless tyrannosaur. ...

Eden 4023: a utopia where happiness is mandated, anger is illegal, and the past is a burden best left forgotten. Citizens live under the watchful eyes of the AI, Silvers, their every move monitored, their emotions carefully regulated. Dr. Tanger, a hunter of the Angry, enforces the law with unwavering obedience, his own past a blank slate by choice. When whispers of a rebellion begin to surface, Tanger is tasked with investigating the source of dissent. As he delves deeper, he encounters a group of individuals who dare to defy the enforced happiness, who embrace the forbidden flames of ...

After the first wave, only darkness remains. After the second, only the lucky escape. And after the third, only the unlucky survive. After the fourth wave, only one rule applies: Trust no one. Now, it's the dawn of the fifth wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see. Who have scattered Earth's last survivors. To stay alone is to stay alive, Cassie believes, until she meets Evan Walker.

“Don’t trust their lies. Don’t trust their false peace.” That is the warning that Alanik of the planet ReDawn gave the human pilot Spensa after Alanik’s ship crash-landed on Detritus. While accepting an invitation to meet with her people’s enemy, the Galactic Superiority, Alanik heard Spensa’s cry for help across the vastness of space, and she used her cytonic powers to hyperjump her ship to the source of that cry. What she found there was a shock - a whole planet of free humans fighting against the Superiority. Were they the allies her people desperately needed?