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Bubblequake: Book 3 of the Disposable Soma Trilogy

The year is 2180, and former Senator Jim Liu has switched parties and is now running for president as a Republican. Battling chronic pain, he faces an uphill election battle as his resistance to joining World War Four puts him at odds with most members of his party. Things get more complicated when Jim’s long lost sociopathic brother surfaces, he receives an ear in the mail, and many of the bubbles that America relies on for food, housing, and industry are destroyed in a cascading bubblequake. Adding to the mystery and confusion, strange blue individuals, speaking an unfamiliar language, emerge from an unregistered bubble, leaving society in bewildered disarray.

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Psittacide: Book 2 of the Disposable Soma Trilogy

The 2172 election is soon approaching. The incumbent, authoritarian President Silas Blackwolf, has had his vice president arrested in order to prevent her from invoking the 25th amendment and removing him from office. Now with the election coming up, he has to choose a running mate. His conspiring cabinet steers him toward selecting moderate senator and former presidential grandson Jim Liu. Through Byzantine constitutional logic, the only way Jim can defeat Blackwolf is by helping him win the race.
The plan gets more complicated when a deadly plague begins to spread among the nation’s genetically enhanced, super-intelligent parrots. The only cure is a plant that grows on Centos Island, which currently lies in the middle of an international war zone. Jim finds himself increasingly compromised, as he makes one ethical compromise after another in his struggle to protect the country from Blackwolf.

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The Disposable Soma: Book 1 of the Disposable Soma Trilogy

The year is 2164 and politics has become unrecognizable. Democrats have become conservative, Republicans have become liberal, and an upstart party called the Empathy Party blames all the world’s ills on sociopaths. An assassination leaves the Empathy Party’s candidacy wide open and a clown car of candidates vies for the nomination. One, hotel heir and failed comedian Jim Liu, stands out from the others when he chooses a genetically modified, super-intelligent, opium-addicted parrot as his running mate. This book follows his quest to become the Empathy Party’s nominee for the 2164 presidential election. His campaign takes him through an America where most days are public holidays, psychedelic drug use is widespread, and the last uncontacted people on Earth are the unknowing subjects of a reality show whose fans have tuned it into a new religion.

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Shadows of the Dark Realm

Worlds like kingdoms rise and fall. Some fade into decay. Others are brought to ruin.
When the elder dragon Draka Mors, steals the Darkstone from the peaceful kingdom of Parisia, the entire realm is threatened.
A group of unlikely heroes must cross hostile lands, survive enemy armies, and unspeakable monsters.
To save the realm, the Seekers must steal back the stone before time runs out. To do som they first have to survive each other.
“By five, may your journey thrive. By five, may you return alive.”

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Sinta, Sorceress-Detective: Tales from Ondiran, Book Three

A magical murder mystery, complete with medieval mayhem!
Poison in the prince’s pork tenderloin claims the life of his hapless taster. A dagger to the heart slays the sleeping court sorcerer, tasked to investigate. With courtiers seemingly falling like ninepins, the prince’s chancellor turns to Mistress Sinta, a gifted freelance sorceress, to assume the role of detective.
With the aid of Sir Othir, her dashing man-at-arms, Sinta plunges into the murk of the princely court, where—while enjoying some tasty meals—she soon finds that spells alone will not uncover the answers she seeks.
Can our inquisitive young heroine crack the case before herself falling victim to the killer?

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Being: Being Saga, Book I

When you desire something so much that you’d do anything for it, even bargain with the devil, that’s when a human becomes a Void.
But for Caiden Waters, someone who was born cursed, she’s the only exception.
Unlike the Blackhearts, the humans that made the exchange, she has the burden of living with the weight of this world on her shoulders. That comes with having an empathic ability, her own emotions reflected in the changing color of her eyes, and a conscious glowing heart in her chest.
Exposed to the outside world for the first time on her own, Caiden finds herself being pursued by zealous Blackhearts who discover her unique secret. With the aid of the Argenta, her cryptic guardians, and a mysterious Archangel, she sets out to find the reason for her being.
Fast-paced, thought-provoking, and darkly alluring, Kedi Daniels’ debut YA urban fantasy, Being, thrusts you into an intriguing universe that you’ll never want to leave.