Wiley Royce Series

Always the smartest guy in the room, Wiley Royce is perplexed when he starts having woman troubles. Brendee, his girlfriend of five years, just doesn’t seem as interested as she used to be. And the new game in town, Janae – she keeps flirting with Wiley and sending him suggestive text messages, undoubtedly because he encourages her attraction to him at every opportunity . . . Then Wiley’s new friend Tom drops another bombshell on him. The first world is being slowly but surely poisoned by food additives, Tom says. “You’re paying for what you think is food, and you’re getting sand and sawdust and glass and drywall. Indigestible synthetic polymers of glucose. You’re paying for food, and you’re getting shit.” Wiley is appalled. How could he have been eating this garbage without realizing it? Nobody dupes Wiley Royce. He knows everything. The sequel to Wiley Royce, Generally Recognized as Safe is the chronicle of Wiley’s struggle to keep his cool and perspective in the face of these disconcerting new waves in his life. What can he do for his beloved Brendee, who may or may not want him anymore? What should he do to beautiful, sexy Janae, who clearly wants him too much? How is he going to take down the shady cabal responsible for poisoning the entire first world - and more importantly, him?

It’s 2033, and Wiley Royce, almost nineteen, thinks he’s smarter than everyone else. He can resurrect your wet cell phone, fix your busted tablet or laptop. No electronic problem is too difficult for Wiley, be it hardware or software. He can cure that virus, make the rolling on your TV cease, and free your computer from its endless, preparing automatic repair loop. All for a price, of course. He also has a mouth on him, and his derision is universal. He says outrageous things about everyone, big, tall, and small. It doesn’t matter to Wiley. The rude stuff he says about his lovely female classmates has been known to turn brothers into vengeful brutes. Because of his unkind wit, he hasn't got a friend to his name, and even though he isn’t a bad-looking guy, especially for an electronics geek, nobody has heard of him ever having a date. The girls don’t like him. He's just too insulting. Regardless of the ladies' enmity, Wiley thinks he's come up with the solution to the problem that's puzzled mankind for centuries. The study of it is his hobby, mostly because he doesn’t have much else to do. He's given it a great deal of thought. Wiley thinks he's figured out what women want. Nate used to be a big man on campus, but since he quit the football team, he finds himself without a girlfriend, and the butt of his old teammates' scorn. They go out of their way, as a matter of fact, to call him chicken and quitter and loser. So much for the understanding of his peers. When Wiley repairs his crippled cell phone, Nate's not really sure how to take him and his arrogance. But then Wiley clues him to a little information about the girl he's had a thing for since grade school, and almost (but not quite) against his will, Nate allows himself to get sucked into Wiley's world of all-seeing webcams and invaded electronics.

Liz suspects that there might be something not quite right about her newest Mr. Right.

Wiley Royce – master of all he surveys – is intelligent enough to believe that there are more things in heaven and Earth than are dreamt in his philosophy, so when his friend confesses that he's from another planet, Wiley's willing to accept that. But when his friend’s young cousins show up with strange tales from the homeworld, will Wiley decide that three aliens constitutes an invasion?