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The year is 2085 In the Southron Union, a breakaway autonomous region of the former United States, climate change steals more of the South with each passing day, shrinking the coastlines and leaving behind an ocean of sand in its wake. Ruled by a man known only as The General, a charismatic leader who rose to power following a military coup, life here is a brutal convergence of violence and starvation. Tasha Strong enjoyed a privileged existence. She had food to eat. A roof over her head. Water flowed freely from the tap. After being hand-selected for a top job by The General, she met Derik...

Delilah can’t catch a break. Two months after her fiancé dumped her for another woman, she’s looking forward to kicking back at the Metal Mayhem Festival, a four-day celebration of heavy music at a soccer stadium within walking distance of her house. To her, there’s no better cure for a broken heart than thrash music, blistering sunshine, and deep-fried festival food. But Delilah’s hopes for relief are crushed when her best friend is called to work at the last minute, forcing her to choose between spending another weekend wallowing or going to the festival alone. Bryce is just ...

“Everybody lies. No one knows anyone.” Burgeoning young scientist Margot thought she had finally found happiness with her new husband Ryan, a microbiologist running a successful research laboratory. After several scientists die under suspicious circumstances, Ryan becomes obsessed with their murders, convinced the government is responsible. When a bioterrorist attack grips the nation, killing thousands of innocent civilians, Ryan becomes more isolated and secretive, drawing suspicion from everyone, including Margot. As a government agent closes in on Ryan, Margot races to find the proof...

The year is 2086. Six months ago, Tasha Strong’s blissful existence was shattered when a terrorist’s bomb killed her husband during Recognition Day, the Southron Union’s celebration of independence from the United States. On that day, Tasha’s old life ended, and a new one began. Obsessed with solving the mystery of Derik’s death, Tasha’s investigation led her to an inescapable conclusion. The General, The Union’s enigmatic dictator, had ordered her husband’s murder after it was discovered that Derik was collaborating with the Gulf Coast Liberation Army, an underground ...

Scott Tucker had it all. As The General’s principal bodyguard, he enjoyed a life most people in the Southron Union could only hope for. Protecting the dictator had given him status, prestige, and most importantly, the love of Tasha Strong, his best friend’s widow. For a while, Scott’s life was perfect. But in a moment of desperation, it all came crashing down, plunging Scott into a dark, never-ending pit of grief and despair. When three Southron generals invade Austin, hoping to revive their dream of a military dictatorship on American soil, the only thing that stands in their way is ...

Meet Reese McLaren. In the year 2050, twenty-five-year-old Reese escaped the doomsday cult he was raised in and made his way to Austin, the capital of The Southron Union, a breakaway autonomous region occupying much of the American Deep South. Ruled by the radical libertarian Nolan Society, the young country relied on Texas’ free-flowing petroleum to save them from climate change, poverty, and starvation. Until one day, the oil ran dry. As The Union’s society begins its inevitable collapse, Reese and his wife Lenore meet a disgruntled soldier known only as The General. The couple’s ...

Microbiologist-turned-terrorist Ryan Telford is trapped. Locked in silent, perpetual darkness, the ghost of his wife Margot his only companion. She sadistically taunts him as he burns with a delirious fever, convinced every hallucination-filled night will be his last. Five hundred miles away, President Baker has accomplished what is predecessor, Neville Dawson had only dreamed of. After orchestrating the deaths of several climate scientists years earlier, his creation, the Committee for Scientific Oversight has humiliated the academic community with public hearings and the detentions of ...

Ryan Telford and Claire McNamara are haunted, terrorized by ghosts of the thousands of people they murdered during The Blood Strain Attack, a vengeful act against a government they believe assassinated their friends and colleagues, scientists who were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Now they’re on the run, each one escaping to their own corner of the world. When Ryan’s wife Margot is kidnapped and brutally attacked, intelligence agents Alex and Jacob will go to the ends of the Earth to capture the bioterrorists turned cold-blooded killers, while Ryan prepares his most audacious ...

Agricultural scientists Jacob and Adira Henson arrived in Manhattan, Kansas in the usual way, in a borrowed van, under cover of night. Theirs is a perfect union. Smart. Funny. Loving. An amazing couple. Or are they? What secrets are being kept in the small two-bedroom apartment just off campus? What kind of scientists carry guns and bags of cash? Who are these mysterious people? As they scramble to prevent another bioterror attack by the Scientific Advancement Society’s terror network, this time on the nation’s corn crop, each day closer to harvest brings Jacob and Adira closer to each ...