She shouldn't be here. Boots pounded against the corridor tiles. Orders echoed-closer with every second. He didn't move. He stood in front of her, solid and calm, his frame blocking the door like a shield. One hand hovered near his weapon. The other reached back, finding her hand in the dark. "You trust me?" he asked, voice low and rough with something unspoken. Her fingers curled into his. She nodded, barely breathing. He turned slightly-just enough to see her. His eyes found hers in the dim light, and for a moment, everything else fell away. The chaos, the rules, the danger. It was just the weight of his gaze, steady and searching, as if trying to memorize her. "Then stay quiet," he said, softer now. "I won't let them touch you." ⸻ They told her she didn't belong. They were right. After a global collapse, the world rebuilt under one banner: U.N.I.-a force forged for peace, enforced by power. Behind the walls of Knight Academy, only the strongest survive. Cadets rise. Systems evolve. And threats are erased before they even form. She's grieving. Outranked. Unwanted. But something about her doesn't add up. As elite shadows begin to stir and truths long buried rise to the surface, one girl finds herself at the heart of a war no one is ready for. And she was never supposed to be here.

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Delaney Escott lives in a world where popularity reigns supreme. If you want to be noticed, social status is everything. The government is run by the Superiors: a very exclusive group of individuals who are virtually flawless. They are smarter than us and stronger than us, and to join their ranks is the highest honor. The Superiors pay an annual visit to the top schools in the nation and evaluate the students, choosing one boy and one girl - the most Popular in the school - to go the Capitol and train for Superiority. Delaney thinks that she's the only one indifferent to (and perhaps even suspicious of) the Superiors, until Caleb Payne, the most popular boy in school, approaches her with a request. He has a task for her, one that he believes she is uniquely capable of completing. And as she helps him, Delaney discovers that the government is hiding many secrets - and that the truth of the Superiors is far from what people believe it to be. [Watty Awards 2012 Winner, Science-Fiction: On the Rise]

Welcome to the nation. Welcome to the place where everything is monitored... everything is portioned... everything is perfectly under control... Everything except the SkyTrain Holland Renner was aboard. In a matter of seconds, Holland finds herself in a world she didn't know existed. Before, she was free within limits. Now, she's one of 400 others. Before, Holland was at least human. Now, she's not so sure. All she knows is that she needs to endure and survive. But what does this have to do with SkyTrain 267-B? Click the "Start Reading" button to uncover the secrets buried within the core of Holland's society. WATTY AWARD WINNER 2015!

**Super rough draft** This book chronicles the journey of seven eighteen year-old teens in futuristic earth. After nearly depleting their natural resources, human kind are forced to live in domes, created by a new world order U.N.I., protecting them from the outside wastelands of earth but that's not all plaguing the earth as seven teenagers find out. Lel Konn, Cero Smith, Roy Mako, Aries Gordon, Barbella Wojiack, Eddric Stage and Preston Stage where all tracking another lead in the anomaly case, fearing to call for help, the seven eighteen-year old teenagers rushed down to find what had just crashed outside their dome not knowing their lives would forever be altered. Now different from the world, can the gang control their new found abilities, save the world and stop the threat that has come from the past to haunt them. You'll just have to wait and read in the new Scifi adventure book, Icons. This story is the first draft and will contain grammatical errors and typos. I apologize in advance and hope you can see past them to the story beneath. Enjoy! Highest scifi ranking: #77 Icons: Meta Humans (Book 1) Copyright 2015 by _THECREATOR_

[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

Now a digital pilot for SYFY The Society knows when we're going to die. They imprint it on our arms at birth. I was supposed to die yesterday. I'm the girl who's Expired. Winner of the 2020 Readers Choice Awards Cover by @Forcade

I was never meant to leave that room. I had spent my whole life in there, imagining what it was like on the outside. I looked forward to the day when I would finally be allowed to leave. But that day was never supposed to come. Until James decided to keep his promise. He had always been there, on the other side of the glass. Waiting. The experiment wasn't over. He was still waiting for me to change. But I didn't change. Not until that night. It was dark, and there was rain. The sound of the car engine was loud, but the crash was louder. In the crash, I became something different. I changed. But not for James. This new part of me emerged for one reason; to save her. This story is a first draft and will contain typos and grammatical errors. I apologize for these in advance, and hope you can see beyond them to the story beneath. Happy reading!