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Civil War: Chronicles of Rondure: Book I

I was Culled at age five into the Bastille Military, the World of Rondure’s superpower…
…Having lived on-base for thirteen years, military life taught me two things: Mastery of the Smoke Element and to never apologize about using it on enemies
Now that I’m awaiting a sure life sentence for the crime of exposing Bastille’s true crimes, they’ve left me with no choice. When they try to extradite me, I will call upon my Sword of Smoke and escape this predicament, using every combat technique they taught me against them.
Then, I’ll take it upon myself to finish a mission I started years ago; to unplug the People of Bastille and let them know who the real enemy is: their home nation and its Capital City of Paramount.
As I go rogue, every authority figure with money, power, and influence in the Bastille Empire will want me dead. Thanks to them, I’m one of the most powerful Smoke Masters in the World of Rondure. And I’m ready to break the spell the people of my nation have lived under for over a century.

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The Sunderland, Volume 2: Solitude

When worlds collide, ignore everyone who doesn’t agree
Years before the Schism shattered society into ideological seclusion, the Solitude tore apart the bonds of trust, leaving the culture shocked and dazed by the viciousness perpetrated in their name. Now, the scattered subcultures of the Sunderland find themselves grappling with a legacy of isolation.
With the ever-present Conduits serving only to validate each group’s self-righteous mission, society is driven into conflict once again. The vast underclass can do nothing but watch as the motivated few each bring about their own understanding of the end…

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The Sunderland, Volume 1: Schism

What makes an entire society break up, and what draws them back together?
Society is fractured. Life for most is a desperate struggle. Natural resources are scarce, and the discovery of a miracle source of new, clean energy only serves to deepen the cracks. As the planet reaches breaking point, the sudden appearance of two mysterious pillars…

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The Omegastar Connection

A thrilling cyberpunk space adventure!
Lance and his android partner, Cee, are fixers, the people that get their hands dirty for the mega-corporations that span across the known universe. When a simple security job escorting the son of an important Hayes Corporation shareholder back to his home from vacation goes sideways, the pair set off to get the boy back. Who ordered the kidnapping, and why? Things are not as they seem, as a conspiracy spanning further than Lance ever could have imagined comes to light.

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The Olympus Trinity

Zeus, the King of the Gods, fears no man, being, or anything of nature in the universe except one thing . . . the loss of family. Opposed to the cruel ways of his vicious father, Kronos, Zeus has strived endlessly in instilling the traditions his mother Rhea taught to him—Family is Everything. In spite of all his protection over his children, destiny ignores no one.
When a mysterious figure comes to his home, Zeus discreetly turns to his reticent brother Hades, God of the Underworld, for answers. Unfortunately, the rebellious and uncontrollable Ocean God, Poseidon, seeks for the answers his way that collides the troubled lives of the forefathers.
Needing to cast aside their differences, the Olympus Trinity must work together if they are to unravel the threads of a perilous mystery of their past.

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Reality Testing: The Sundown Series: Book One

Welcome to Berlin. Population: desperate. In the throes of the climate crisis, the green tech pioneers are king, and if you aren’t willing to be their serf then you’re surplus to requirements.
Carbon credit for sleeping on the job. That’s the offer a dreamtech puts to Mara Kinzig, and she jumps on it. After all, the city ain’t getting any cheaper.
Then somebody changes the deal while she’s dreaming in the tank.
Now Mara has a body on her hands, an extra voice in her head, and the law on her tail. Only the Vanguard, a Foreign Legion of outcasts seeking an alternative path in the dust between the city states, might be able to help her figure out what went wrong.
First, though, she’ll have to escape the seething streets of Berlin alive.