Selection
Elyssa, a single woman in her thirties, decides that her life can only be fulfilled through motherhood. She strikes out on a journey of in vitro pregnancy from a facility, which on the surface appears to be credible, and gives birth to and raises a daughter, who from the beginning demonstrates exceptional physical and mental prowess.
Sarah, the daughter, is happy in her world but is thrust, against her will, into another locale, where she and others are told that they will be undergoing training to fully realize their not-so-hidden strengths. The facility she’s been taken to seems on the surface to be a light-filled, spa-like building nestled in a harsh but beautiful mountain setting.
As she spends more time there, Sarah finds that her suspicions about the place and the people may be well-founded. Sarah finds an ally in her roommate Goldie, and together they navigate beyond the smiling faces to find an underlying and sinister agenda. As the outside worlds climate cracks and begins to crumble, Sarah and a small group of desperate cast outs content with assassins, the vagaries of Mountain weather, and with each one’s individual struggle to understand who they are and where, and if they fit in this new world.
Migration
Book two of the Selection series.
This story delves into migrations from difficult and deadly circumstances to a dim hope for a future. Due to an increased world wide population coupled with an increasingly unforgiving climate, governments, cities, and civilizations have collapsed and people still surviving are forced to consider how they can continue on.
Several disparate groups embark on a trek westward to a rumored place of refuge where a future might be possible. Along the way they are met with deadly challenges and they hold to the idea that the mountains and the north may provide them with a life.
The influx of new comers that trickle into their world forces the mountain tribe and the people of Genomix West to reassess how they can continue on as well.
Migration is a story about the near future and how proto and new humans carve out a life for themselves and future generations.
