Flight Plan

By K. M. Herkes

Naomi Kwan escaped a dead-end future as a serf by cheating the system at every turn, and she lost her taste for crime. Citizenship gives her legal rights, not instant wealth, but she is determined to earn her way out of poverty with good old-fashioned hard work.

When terrorists fire-bomb her San Francisco neighborhood, all her honest plans go up in smoke. Her police record makes her a target for corrupt officials eager to shelter the true culprits, and innocence is no protection when dead scapegoats tell no tales.

To escape her powerful enemies before they silence her forever, Naomi will need to make peace with old criminal friends. To expose those enemies and redeem her good name, she will need new allies too. The most difficult trick? Staying alive long enough to call for help.

Forty-four years have passed since the Restored United States began its recovery from decades of oppression and revolution. The world is a different place, but some things never change. The needy still struggle, the rich still rule, and the oppressed still fall prey to violence.

• Language: English
• Publisher: K.M. Herkes
• Release date: Nov 16, 2013
• ISBN: 9781310690938

K. M. Herkes

K. M. Herkes writes and publishes science fiction and fantasy stories that feature damaged heroes with complicated lives who achieve triumph through cooperation. Before becoming a full-time writer, she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from the University of Notre Dame, dabbled in the retail pet supply industry, and then enjoyed an eighteen-year bookselling career with Borders Books & Music. Along the way she also collected experience in high school teaching, animal training, aquaculture, horticulture, food service, and inventory control. When she isn't writing, she digs holes in her backyard and sticks plants in them, putters around the kitchen doing experimental baking, and reads just enough to keep her stack of unread books from getting taller than she is. The author's website can be found at http://dawnrigger.com