[Book 1 of the ARC10 Trilogy] **Winner of the 2017 Watty Storysmith award** The President created an underground safe-haven for the survivors of the alien invasion. He built it to save them all from total annihilation. He protects them, feeds them, keeps them under his ever-watchful gaze so they can live. All he asks is that they obey. Captain Janika Lorn doesn't want to obey. Not if it means spreading her legs and contributing to the President's precious eugenics program. As a perfect candidate for the Human Hope Project, she is obligated by law to make more citizens for the dying society. But all she wants is her freedom to fight the Invaders and protect the people who already exist. If the mandated program wasn't bad enough, the worst part is trying to fulfill it with Captain Dean Freyer, her scientifically matched partner and best friend of sixteen years. Just as Captain Lorn is about to succumb to her fate, another opportunity arises. A mysterious commanding officer asks her to lead a human refugee ship--to save humanity by evacuating the destroyed Earth and shuttling the remaining population to a new habitable exoplanet 400 light years away. The mission is perilous. Especially because now, standing between her and her freedom is the hostile alien hosts of her ship, the ARC10, a sister returned from the dead, an array of impossibly confusing alien tech, a rekindled heat between her and Dean, and a sexy militia chief she can't seem to keep her hands off of. ARC10 is a romance-heavy sci-fi with the speculative horror of Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and the military action of Battle: Los Angeles. Cover art by @FayLane Copyright © 2016 by LL Montez

After years of pain and loss, a young lady finally takes her revenge, wiping out two of Xin Dao's ruling clans. But instead of death, she is sentenced to serve under the very heir who captured her - the prim and proper successor of another powerful clan. Bound by punishment and watched at every turn, the two clash through sunny days and stormy nights, learning to survive one another as they face life and death on every mission. But the deeper they go, it becomes clearer - her true enemy is still out there, hiding behind shadows, and he may be powerful enough to destroy all of Xin Dao.

The world has plunged into the apocalypse. As zombies roam and natural disasters rage, mysterious treasure chests descend upon the world: bronze chests contain food, silver chests yield supernatural powers, and golden chests can summon divine equipment... However, each chest requires a corresponding key to open, and the key drop rate is as low as one in ten thousand! But I have obtained the only universal key, capable of opening any treasure chest!

Alien motherships blacken the sky, threatening humanity's last stronghold. In our darkest hour, Jiang Fan leads an expeditionary fleet beyond the solar system. His goal isn't survival - it's dominion. "When gods descend, we become godslayers." ⚡ A rebirth. A system. A scientist who changes the fate of an entire planet.

Alien fleets approach our solar system. Despair grips Earth. As nations scramble to escape, Jiang Fan activates the final solution: A 100-mile wide space station, carrying millions. "They flee the solar system. We'll build a new one." ⚡ A rebirth. A system. A scientist who changes the fate of an entire planet.

The battle for the Moon was just the beginning. When enemies betrayed the treaty and aimed weapons at Dragon Nation's lunar base, Jiang Fan revealed his hand: Space forces deployed for the first time, laser arrays vaporizing all invaders. "You chose war. Now you get empire." ⚡ A rebirth. A system. A scientist who changes the fate of an entire planet.

When the West lost by the rules, they decided to break the game. This time, the battle raged from the abyss to the stars. Jiang Fan faced not competition, but a hunt for civilization's survival. The Deep: His carrier Jiaolong, shielded by quantum armor, weathered a nuclear strike and sent the entire enemy fleet to the depths. The Stars: As rivals established a military base on the Moon, he planted the Dragon flag on the far side within 48 hours. The Rule: When the enemy activated orbital "Starlink weapons" targeting the globe, he smiled: "Who said the Moon can't be a weapon?" From sea control to space dominance, he reinvented warfare. "When my carrier sails through your wreckage, and my base overlooks your Moon-you'll finally understand who owns this sky." ⚡ A rebirth. A system. A scientist who changes the fate of an entire planet.

They tried to cage him with rules. So he rewrote them all. When the West launched a total siege - controlling global energy, blocking space access, dragging Dragon Nation to court - Jiang Fan gave them his answer: The "Celestial Palace" space station, launched without permission, claiming the skies as Dragon territory. The "Dragon Scale" solar tech that made Western energy obsolete overnight. The rescue of stranded Western astronauts from the very station they'd mocked. At the final hearing, Jiang Fan didn't defend. He demonstrated. Presenting a world now dependent on Dragon Nation's technology, Dragon Nation's standards. "My standard is the world's standard." The old era ended not with a war, but with a new rulebook - written in the East. ⚡ A rebirth. A system. A scientist who changes the fate of an entire planet.

When the god sheds his disguise, the world shall tremble. Controlling his gaokao scores was merely his pastime. Answering the nation's call revealed his true power. After crushing the academic siege, Jiang Fan's name could no longer stay in the shadows. But peace was never an option. When enemy stealth fighters brazenly crossed borders, when premeditated military provocations unfolded on the high seas, when global navigation signals were maliciously cut off-they thought the Dragon Nation would swallow its pride once more. They were wrong. This time, Jiang Fan stepped out of the shadows. From a hidden asset to a public symbol, he took command of the nation's most critical systems: Above the skies: His BeiDou Navigation System emerged with flawless precision, crushing the West's proud GPS and ushering the world into a new era-the Dragon Era of global positioning. Beneath the seas: The aircraft carrier Jiaolong, designed under his leadership, broke through the waves. During a globally watched naval drill, its revolutionary technology sent the arrogant enemy fleet to the ocean floor. At the nation's gate: When the humiliated enemy launched a hypersonic missile in desperation, Jiang Fan smiled calmly in the command center-and pressed a button, intercepting and obliterating the threat a thousand miles away. This was an asymmetrical domination-a higher-dimensional strike. While the enemy was still showing off their gunpowder, Jiang Fan had already drawn his laser blade. From navigation dominance to military competition, from missile defense to commercial technology, he declared to the whole world, in every domain: The era of the Dragon Nation being bullied was over. "Whoever dares offend the Dragon, no matter the distance, shall be wiped out." This was no longer just a slogan-it was a truth written by Jiang Fan himself, in iron and blood. ⚡ A rebirth. A system. A scientist who changes the fate of an entire planet.

He died as the world's youngest nuclear scientist - and woke up as a 17-year-old high school student in a parallel world. With a system implanted in his mind that holds five hundred years of future technology, Jiang Fan must score exactly 300 points in nine consecutive exams to unlock it - the last being the National College Entrance Exam. When his "failure" earns him a 300 instead of full marks, the nation's top research institute takes notice. Soon, Jiang Fan finds himself recruited by the Dragon Science Academy - and standing before the country's highest leaders. ⚡ A rebirth. A system. A scientist who changes the fate of an entire planet.