For 17 year old Benna Denman, it's hard enough being the president's daughter. And when she develops a telepathic Link, life gets even worse. Her father isn't impressed with this new evolutionary ability. It means he could lose control over people's communications - in a world without cell phones, publicly accessible internet, or a postal service, it's difficult for dissent to spread and uprising to organize. That's just the way he likes it. So when the government starts offering cash in exchange for these telepaths, and Benna is under suspicion by both her boyfriend and her powerful father, she knows she's in trouble. Upon discovering that the cold Dr. Frenchwood plans to use her as a lab rat to develop a cure for telepathy, Benna and her Link, a boy named Corin, decide to try to run... First place for best fantasy/sci fi in @Gossamersilverglow's Best Fiction Competition 2016 Best Female Character @Gossamersilverglow's Best Fiction Competition 2016 Made to it the Elite Eight of @Fantasci's The Chosen One Competition 2016/17

Control. It's what Evelyn's known her whole life...being controlled by a croupt government run society called Detra. Detra's government controls every aspect of your life, from the job you work to the person you marry. "Giving perfect lives to perfect people", is Detras motto, but to Evelyn, her life is far from perfect. Seeing the faults in her society puts Evelyn at risk, knowing she'd be arrested if she shared a single thought.When on Evelyns 20th birthday the government forces her to marry an unbearable man, she finally reaches her breaking point, and flees Detra, leaving behind her government controlled life, and her vengeful husband. Evelyn crosses Detras boarders into a forbidden territory, and stumbles into an hidden society of Rebels called, " The Rogues" who take her in. But Evelyns greatest conflict, comes with trying to understand the secrets of coldhearted Rogue leader-Dominic Jones, who wants nothing to do with Evelyn. The Rogues biggest mission: Overthrowing Detras government. Evelyns new team are the only people who can pull it off. A Convict who can cut a punch through the air like a blade. A spy who's intelligence outwits his strength. A full blooded Rogue who isn't afraid of any battle. A refugee who can cock an arrow better than a joke. A runaway whose determination is as strong as her mind. A rebel with a heart of sympathy but a soul of vengeance. Evelyn slowly unravels secrets about herself. Will she unravel the secretes of Dominic too? Or end up breaking him even more than he's already broken.

When a deadly plague spreads like wildfire, 17-year-old Bren Watts is trapped at Ground Zero of a global pandemic. ---- Bren and his classmates are stranded in New York City, now filled with thousands of murderous infected and desperate survivors. Forced into an unlikely alliance with his school bully and former friend, Logan Hardy, the two boys must find a way back home, traversing through the ravaged landscape of the United States. With their odds stacked against them, Bren has no choice but to use the skills taught by his ex-Navy SEALs father to fight and survive. But the path ahead is bloodied and broken, and if he wants to reunite with his family, Bren must tap into his darkest heart for not only the infected are capable of hatred and violence. The Bren Watts Diaries tells a dark and gritty account of the end, all narrated in the survivor's own voice as a first-hand witness to humanity's end. The story will cover the first year of the Apocalypse, depicting the beginnings of the disease, society's war against the pandemic, and the eventual collapse of civilization. [[Current word count: 450,000 - 500,000 words]] ----- The series portrays an LGBTQ+ protagonist and numerous other characters. Violence, like any medium of zombie stories, is described in detail.