The Explorer Series

"Kesten Harris is a brilliant author. That is the word that kept coming to my mind as I was reading through his novel The Blue Barricade, brilliant. This one is a real page-turner with many plots twists and just the right amount of action to keep a reader obsessed with finishing the book."  —Brandi Peterson, The Aspiring Author Blog Mankind has been at war with the AI for four-hundred years. The conflict has claimed countless lives, including Wander Locke's family. It stole his grandfather's life while he was a child, stole his parents' lives a mere year ago, but...it never claimed his sister. She went missing after the AI, or Aggressive Intellectuals, invaded Wander's lunar home. Her body never turned up, and Wander's never lost hope that she was still out there somewhere. After Wander and his best friend, Laura Genki, are attacked by an agent of the AI, he's summoned to President Frost's office. She instructs him to retrieve a shield generator stolen by the Oppressed, a group of elusive rebels who fled to New Earth. If he can retrieve it, he'll be allowed to travel the galaxy in search of his sister. He'll become an official explorer. Together with Laura, and his mysterious teacher, Theodore Manning, the three journey to New Earth in search of the Oppressed. They have only a matter of days to recover the shield generator before the Oppressed use it for themselves. If that happens, Wander may never see his sister again...because he might never be able to leave New Earth. The Blue Barricade is a Young Adult Sci-Fi comedy. It's the first in a series known as "The Explorer." 

The sequel to the YA Sci-Fi novel, The Blue Barricade, has arrived! It's been a month since that fateful day on New Earth, also known as Mars. The day when Red City found itself under attack by the shadowy organization known as the Oppressed. Despite surviving the ordeal, Wander Locke finds himself on the one planet in the galaxy that was meant to be uninhabitable: Earth. Stranded with his best friend, Laura Genki, and his mentor, Theodore Manning, the three must cooperate with the very forces keeping them there if they are to have any hope of retrieving what they lost, and returning home safe and sound.

The third book in the Young Adult Sci-FI series, The Explorer, has arrived! Upon returning to New Selene, Wander Locke is hailed as a celebrity by the First Division. Wander feels unworthy of his new status, due to the events that transpired on Epsilon. His chance at redemption arrives in the form of a mission request from President Frost. She asks him to venture to an unexplored planet and rescue a soldier who was captured by powerful and mysterious robots. Wander embarks with the fallen soldier's leader, but soon discovers that the mission is far more complicated than it seems. What starts as a simple quest evolves into Wander's greatest challenge as the line between friends and enemies blurs, and the odds continue to stack against him.

The fourth and Final Explorer book is finally here. Come find out how Wander Locke's journey ends. The Red Revolution is a Young Adult Sci-Fi novel that chronicles the final month of a 400-year-old galactic war. Wander Locke doesn't care how the AI War ends, he just wants to wake up in a galaxy that isn't being torn apart. He's so desperate that he's even enlisted help from the aliens that he hates so much: the Aggressive Intellectuals (AI). After an attack leaves Wander's army without a base, they're stuck onboard the ship that practically started the war in the first place: the Mainframe. That's where they receive news that could help them end the war in a single day.  Wander and his friends speed toward their final battle but are they ready for everything that comes before? Especially if the final confrontation takes place in the single most controversial location in the First Division: Red City?