Two hundred years in our future, women have taken over the world and kicked out the opposite sex entirely. Now they are the dominant gender in the world population. Men are treated as lousy, stupid, second-rate garbage. The only thing they're good for now is reproduction.
The queen rules on high in the Palace of Diana in Washington DC, the capital of the Artemis Colony. Homophobia is nonexistent. Now, heterosexuality is the minority. And as with all minorities, discrimination is imminent. The entirety of the all-female population in the America's, Europe, and Asia all agree with these terms of gender discrimination. Male humans are now thought of as a lowly subspecies.
All but one girl.
Courageous, intelligent, outspoken and fiery highly skilled martial artist Princess Diana Artemis is curious about boys. The fact that she's the only girl in the Artemis Colony who lives with her father. But this isn't enough. Diana wants to meet a boy her age. She wants to make peace, but she doesn't have the power to make such a suggestion without getting into loads of trouble.
The leader of the Trenton, New Jersey Colony of males has an incredibly altrusitic and outspoken son named Ethan Harvey who doesn't like the separation of sexs either. He believed that the male population had this awful discriminatory age coming for treating women so unfairly before the Revolution.
The two teenagers happen upon each other about a month from Diana's birthday, when Ethan sneaks into Arcadia to finally experience female society. Can these two young activists find a way to save both their worlds?
Disclaimer: Dear readers, this author can do a lot of things, but she can't draw. All artwork was made by someone else. I just substitute the colors sometimes.
Ella is falling apart trying to live a "perfect" high school life. Then she meets Ren, who can see past her scars. Suddenly perfection isn't her only option.
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Ella Volkov is a gifted music student, but she's depressed and starting to crack under the pressure of high school. Her overbearing father won't even let her choose what instrument she plays. Then she finds herself alone at a party with Ren, her best friend's crush. She'd always thought he was rude, but after that night he's all Ella can think about. Now she's trapped. If Ella dates Ren, it will ruin her friendship with Jenny. But if she stays true to Jenny, she's losing the one person who can see past her scars. It's up to Ella to decide if she will forge her own path, or stay in the "perfect" box designed for her...
Content and/or Trigger Warning: depression, anxiety, self-harm, violence, sexual assault.
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