Embers [Ignite Duology Book 2]
Genre: sci-fi/superhero
Status: first draft editing
Word count: 94,694
Synopsis:
The government has discovered that their new serum isn’t working…it’s just making supers deathly ill. It may be harder to get rid of superpowers that they thought.
The SCF takes a whole new approach to the superhuman problem…
Brain-washing them and training them for combat.
And what better way to test their new army than to send it to attack the rebel supers of Rapid City?
Scarlett is having a hard time running things in Rapid like Rez did. She’s determined to keep her promise to him, but she’s in over her head. Nadia’s a big help, but she’s growing distant and Scarlett doesn’t know why. Ares is anxious to look for his sister, and Scarlett has her promise to help him find her hanging over her head. And Seth continues to get sicker and sicker. And the only person who can help him is a doctor Scarlett wants nothing more to do with.
Just when things couldn’t get any crazier, a new gang of supers moves into Rapid City. And they’re up to no good. Now Scarlett has to battle them and protect those entrusted to her care, all with a super soldier army approaching.
And the leader of this gang is no stranger. Someone Scarlett thought she’d never see again.
So now she has to fight against this new gang, keep her friends content, and prepare for the biggest battle she’ll ever face. She has to learn how to be a leader.
Skyracer
Genre: sci-fi/futuristic
Status: first draft
Word count: 75
Synopsis:
The year is 2122, and New San Francisco is the hub of the dangerous sport of skyracing. But it’s the element of danger that keeps Renna Starr in the game. Despite her mother’s past as a famous skyracer, Renna rides on her own skill but stays anonymous. On her rise to the top of the sport, she becomes known as RS, the mysterious, young female racer that never shows her face. And now that the biggest skyracing tournament in the world is coming to her home city, she has a chance to really show what she can do.
Renna’s biggest competitor, Aylo Rush, isn’t as enamored with her success as the media. He’ll do anything to get ahead and be on top.
But it’s not all fame and fortune when Aylo’s racing career takes a suspicious turn. When there are rumors about an assassination attempt on the District President, Renna’s sure Aylo’s behind it. He seems to have higher aspirations than just being the best skyracer.
Now Renna’s on a race to win the biggest skyracing tournament in the world, get answers from her grandmother about her parents who disappeared years ago, and find out what Aylo’s scheming. Meanwhile, she discovers her past may be more connected to him than she thought.
When the Stars Align
Genre: light sci-fi/futuristic
Status: outlining
Word count: 0
Synopsis:
“You’re nothing. That’s why everyone will leave you.”
For Sora, the only thing constant in her life is the stars. Every night they return to keep her company. They don’t judge her for crying herself to sleep or covering every inch of her room with art or painting constellations on her cheeks.
But Sora dreams. Every night she dreams, hopes that somewhere under the canopy of lights she has a family somewhere. Parents who will love her for being her. Every night brings the comfort of the stars’ company, but also the cold loneliness.
So Sora combats the ache with her art. Giving away her canvases, decorating drab buildings, selling her pieces. But it draws attention from a government that wants the people subdued, not hopeful because of a girl’s sketches. When her art gets her in deeper trouble, she’s saved by the mysterious resistance group and brought to safety. With them, she meets Ruka, the mother of Taro, the hardened boy who saved her. Ruka is everything Sora dreamed a mother should be. Maybe her dream will come true.
But her hopeful joy is replaced by gripping fear. Is she good enough to be accepted into a family? Or will she be left alone once again, confirming those biting words that have haunted her for years? “You’re nothing. That’s why everyone will leave you.”