Set in the futuristic Male Supremacist universe of "End of Women", this short spinoff follows the life and adventures of Emma Brooke, a young woman who lives through the tumultuous period of change during which all females are systematically rounded up and imprisoned in Compounds to be used as recreational and reproductive toys. No tougher challenge exists than to simply live a life when your very existence is punishable by law. As Emma begins to learn about this new world, she comes to understand it. Caught between vicious tormentors on the other side of her cage door and unpredictable feminist militias trying to stage a coup, Emma sees life under Bluenorth rule from every possible angle, learning first to survive, then to thrive and, perhaps finally, to love.

When Piper discovers she has hidden cybernetic implants, she is inducted into the secretive AmpCore Academy to master incredible gifts, in a place where the impossible and possible collide... WINNER IN THE 2024 WATTY AWARDS AND GRAND FAVOURITE IN THE 2024 AMBYS * || WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO EXIST? || Hadrian is a city split in two. One side lives under the iron rule of competing tech corporations. The other is a wasteland, destroyed in a schism between human and artificial intelligence, stalked by code-wraiths, mad AIs and berserk cyborg abominations. When streetkid Piper is attacked by a rogue codewraith from Hadrian South, she discovers that she has hidden implants that no normal person should possess. Not willing to tolerate such an anomaly, the corporate overlords of Hadrian rip Piper out of her life and send her to the secluded AmpCore Academy, where she is set on a new path, whether she likes it or not. At the academy it quickly becomes clear that the wraith attack was no accident. Someone, somewhere, tried to murder her. Plunging into the murky world of corporate politics, academy cliques and gangland wars, Piper has to find out who wanted her dead, and stop them before they try again. || AmpCore: Book 1 || - [COMPLETED] *NB. this story contains strong language.