The Gold Code

A very strange futuristic YA re-telling mash-up of The Frog Prince and The Golden Ball with unlikely heroes, airships, biological warfare and star-crossed lovers.

It is said that history is written by the victors. Sometimes, however, the future can be written by the defeated. In the Second Great War, the Augmented and their allies soundly defeated the human rebels. With the establishment of the Olympian Empire in 2400, the Augmented consolidated their hold on the planet. The rebels, their families and descendants became known as the Tarnished, designed to serve the Augmented. 100 years later, whispers of rebellion are once again sweeping through Augmentaris Prime.

Penny AC- 418790, one of the Tarnished, leads a quiet life as the assistant engineer of the Sbrwiel, a (mostly legal) transporter. She dreams of spending the rest of her life tinkering with machines, reading trashy fiction and above all, avoiding servitude. Her life plan is thrown to the wind with the arrival of their latest cargo and she finds herself embroiled in imperial politics.

Mars Valorian, an Augmented, is on a mission to save his life and his people. While searching for a dangerous rebel scientist, he accidentally finds himself on the Sbrwiel. What he does not realize, is that the Sbrwiel is hiding a secret so dangerous it could bring the empire to its knees.

Can Penny, Mars and the rag-tag crew of the Sbrwiel save their planet from a third war?