Wasteland Series

Meg has spent the last twelve years of her life living in the Wasteland with a protector who has kept her in the dark about her origins, and trained her to be a fighter and weapons expert. What Meg doesn't know is that she is an Antaean: a super soldier engineered to protect the country of Sirain from its enemies, then hidden away from the very cities that sacrificed many of their own people to design her. It isn't until an attack by a group of unidentified soldiers leaves her permanently scarred, and her protector dead that she begins to learn the truth about herself. Trying to survive in a world of strangers, Meg discovers there are more like her: other Antaeans who've been hidden from their enemies. Forced from the Wasteland by the loss of her protector, Meg realized she must try to locate the other Antaeans before Sirain's enemies do - or worse, the cities' leaders – can discover and destroy them all.

Book 1 of the YA apocalyptic Wasteland trilogy. When environmental collapse forces the Job Creators to retreat to sealed domes, those left behind have two choices: fight for survival or perish. For years, seventeen-year-old Alessandro Bonanno has managed to scrape out a living by digging out scrap from derelict buildings. Were it not for his determination to save his seven-year-old brother, Enzo, Alessandro might have chosen the easy way out, as his father has, disappearing down a bottle of cheap liquor. Alessandro's situation becomes far more precarious and dangerous when the Creators flee, taking all semblance of law and order with them. With no other options, he agrees to work for a crime lord in exchange for protection for himself and his brother. But the deeper the crime lord draws Alessandro into her web, the more he fears he and his brother will never escape. Born seventeen years ago on a Creator's farming collective, Valeria Lagunes has never known anything other than a life of toil under the relentless sun. Despite what the Creators' propaganda insists, crop yields are dwindling with each passing year, begging the question of which lives will be prioritized when there isn't enough food to go around. Yet as terrified as Valeria is of the impending famine, those fears are nothing compared to what her community must face when the Creators abandon them. Suddenly, the people of the collective are no longer just simple farmers. In this new lawless world, they must become warriors in order to defend their own. But can Valeria live with herself when forced to make decisions that go against every conviction she holds most dear?

Love is the most dangerous experiment of all.   There is only one rule in the Wasteland: survive.   The few remaining women are as reviled as they are worshipped, a commodity any man must pay to touch. And to touch a Wanderer, he may pay with his life. For Ezra, the risk is worth the reward. People speak his name with the same reverent terror reserved for ancient, wrathful gods, but he must always be ready to fend off those who would take what's his. And what he wants to be his is Kadira.   Kadira, adopted after she witnessed the slaughter of her devoted parents, has vowed never to love or need anyone. It seems only fitting that she, an outsider, accept Ezra's demand in trade for the fuel technology her clan needs—but her deep, unexpected need for him is the torture she's fought all her life to avoid. Worse, the greater her wrath, the more he seems to like it.   Ezra's mercenary half delights at having the warrior woman in his arms. His scientist half can't resist the urge to see what makes her react—and what makes her explode.   The real experiment: if the bond they forge is strong enough to make her want to stay.   Note: This story was previously published.

What if the fight for survival isn't worth the cost? The collective isn't the safe haven Alessandro had hoped it would be. Many of the members suspect he'd sell them out in an instant for his own benefit, and the threat of more assaults coupled with the dwindling food supply have left them with no other choice than to search for a more defensible location. Valeria is doing her best to grapple with her losses and adjust to her new reality, but when the collective's leaders reveal the location of a secret underground agricultural facility and announce plans to move there, she fears they're putting too much stock in the hope that the facility will be their salvation. Yet if everyone is to survive, they'll need the facility's technology to grow their own food. The perilous journey turns out to be the least of their worries. After a devastating betrayal, can the collective find the will to stay together or will they too dissolve, pitting member against member in a deadly battle for existence?

Old enemies have become new allies. But at what cost? Trea wasn't expecting there would be more of her kind: additional Antaeans the High Rulers didn't know about. But where did they come from?  As Trea tries to settle into her new surroundings, violence erupts around her. A new threat is discovered, one that could not only destroy her new home, but those she has grown to care about. Should Trea stay out of the war and let events unfold, or does she need to become the Antaean she was designed to be?

The third and final book of the YA apocalyptic Wasteland trilogy. Time has become the collective's scarcest resource. Holed up in a location they can't hope to defend, and with precious few supplies, their very survival hinges on finding a defensible place to settle, somewhere they can risk using their limited store of seeds to grow more food. Valeria pounces on the chance to join one of the scouting teams tasked with finding a new home. Reeling from the aftermath of her parents' actions and searching for answers, she's desperate to get out into the wasteland and discover who and what else is out there. Afraid the collective's recent upheaval will call his position into question once more, Alessandro is doing his best to blend in. But when the scouting teams begin bringing back information into which he alone can provide insight, information that may hold the key to finding a secure location for the collective, he has no choice but to draw attention to himself. When a marauding group begins closing in on their borders, the collective is forced to reckon with losing their one and only edge. Whatever the cost, they must move before they're truly prepared or risk annihilation.

War between Eretria and Sirain is inevitable. Trea's betrayal has been felt by all those who fought with her, but none more so than by Braxton. Now separated from Sirain and Trea, Braxton must choose where his loyalties truly lie. Will he fight for Eretria, a country he hardly knows, or risk sacrificing Eretria's survival by focusing his energy on saving Trea?  With a new Antaean army being trained by his most powerful Antaean Andred – a now brainwashed Trea - Premier Vladim is confident his victory will be quick. But there are forces at work against him. Ones that could cause the war of the century to collapse before it's begun.