YA Speculative Fiction Author
The Books
I started writing in 2012 with a book I called Uriah. Seven years later, that book is now When the Runner Meets the Fight, which will likely be the first book I publish. Once I do, I'll have more time for the rest of the books I want to write! Here are some of my current WIPs, spanning the genres of Action/Adventure, Superhero/Time Travel, Science Fiction, and more.
Son of Slavery, Book 1
Seventeen-year-old Uriah Fern is running for his life. Having been raised in an expanding sex trafficking ring by the boss himself—a man known only as Culebra—he learned from a young age to do what he was told…even if that meant participating in the capture of new victims. But when Culebra murdered Uriah's mother, Uriah saw his situation with clear eyes and knew he had to get out.
Exhausted from being on the run, Uriah takes refuge with a family in a rural settlement and is just starting to recover when Culebra catches up to him. When the enemy seals off all chances of escape—not only for him, but for the other settlers—he realizes that his fate is fully in his master's hands. Culebra offers to set him free if he will bring one female captive from among the settlers. If she is threatened, the rest of the settlers will likely do anything to protect her, even if that means surrendering and falling headlong into the horrors of the slave trade.
Uriah has less than a week to decide. Would it be mercy to hand the people over to a cruel master who is bound to take them anyway? Or is it time to stop running and meet the fight—even if it's his last?
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YA Science Fiction
Cyborgs don’t usually have names, but Junichi isn’t your typical cyborg.
Well… he’s actually pretty typical, aside from the fact that one of his Makers has made him the victim of several unauthorized experiments over the years. Junichi hasn’t let it change him, though; he knows his duty is first and foremost to the Voice in his head that guides his every move. So, he doesn’t hesitate when the Voice sends him into the outside world to escort a cyborg ambassador back to headquarters.
Too bad the Voice glitches out at the rendezvous point, and Junichi accidentally kidnaps a hyperactive human teen instead.
The Makers aren’t happy. Not only is their ambassador stranded miles from headquarters, where he might be discovered, but now they have a witness on their hands—one whose blabbermouth calls for drastic measures.
They have a lot of work to do, but in the meantime, they might as well dispose of the broken equipment that made the error in the first place.
Obedience to the Voice has always been Junichi’s highest priority, but if he doesn’t somehow break away from its control, he’ll be embracing his own execution with open arms.
When the Fighter Falls to Dark
Son of Slavery, Book 2
When Uriah faced his previous slave owner to keep an innocent village out of his clutches, he considered only one alternative to freedom--death. Instead, he failed in every way imaginable, and not only is he back in his enemy's clutches, but so are quite a few of the villagers he had tried to protect.
Relocated into the heart of the new valley-region slave empire, Uriah is forced to take part in the cruelty by managing and disciplining the female slaves. It doesn't seem like there's any way out, but just when he loses hope of ever tasting freedom again, two of his fellow slaves remind Uriah that he escaped once before.
What's to stop them from doing it again?