Geologist Eden Dance is on the last day of her vacation when she’s called back to her most recent project half-way between Sayulita and Guadalajara, Mexico. Wanting to go home but ordered to stay, she’s called back to use her expertise not for finding precious minerals, but several engineers who have mysteriously disappeared in a mine she helped design. When she abruptly ceases contact with her family back home, her incarcerated father turns to retired special operations officer Chuck Porter, a former black-ops agent turned gun-for-hire who rides an old-school Harley and makes his intelligence and dark networks available to the highest bidder.
As Porter assembles a group of ex-military, Eden finds herself in the crosshairs of powerful families, cartels and two governments. Her decisions are clouded when she must make a choice to live, but destined to be alone, or will she risk it all to save the man who has captured her heart.
FBI agent Brayden Cox has been arrested, his partner is in the hospital with burn wounds and Kyle has become a pariah, blamed for the loss of the championship game and his girlfriend running away. But Kyle still has the cubes containing more than just the DNA files of everyone in the country: much more. And that’s the problem: what does he do with what he knows? Who does he trust to grow new faces to test his theory, and can he stay alive long enough to bring down the government who created this catastrophic situation in the first place?
Incarnation: Sarah Gerdes’ exciting new YA series, pre-order coming soon for on Apple, B & N, Kobo, Amazon and more for February 2019 general release
A FACELESS FUTURE
Years ago, Kyle’s parents fled Denver to live a life without governmental oversight in a small Colorado town. Kyle has always thought there was nothing more in Ouray than hot springs for the tourists and basketball for him—his ticket for a way out and a bigger and better life. But when an old miner tells him about a mysterious room hidden within the caverns of an abandoned gold mine, Kyle is determined to see what he can find.
What he discovers shocks him to the core: the identification for every US citizen, documenting their DNA and the face they should have been born with. In over his head, Kyle goes to the one person who might be able to help. A loner and a computer genius, Billy quickly figures out what the government has kept from everyone for decades. And it’s a secret that might get them both killed…
Gripping and inventive… An irresistible page-turner!
Gerdes skillfully combines medical technology and political intrigue with high tension of an action thriller in this engrossing first installment of the Incarnation series. An athletic standout, seventeen-year-old Kyle has his future sorted out in his mind with plans to get a scholarship and pursue higher education. But when he comes across a hidden cavern that contains a dangerous government secret: the identification for every US citizen, documenting their DNA and the face they should have been born with, Kyle finds himself in the middle of a dangerous conspiracy. Gerdes expertly manages her varied ensemble cast (with realistic teens and adult characters), injecting them with emotional depth and relatability. The potent mix of conspiracy, medical intrigue, convincing young romance, and intricate worldbuilding keep the narrative drive strong. With high suspense, palpable tension, and well-constructed plotline, this page-turner will make Teen/YA readers greatly excited for the next installment.
A new warrior, not bound by human form has traveled to this new world and hunts one thing: Cage.
Barely escaping China with their lives, Cage and Mia arrive in America early in the nineteenth century. War is raging, as the US military, settlers and native Indians battle the land they seek to call their own. It seems to come alive at times, the phenomena a mystery, but the outcome indisputable: the warrior carries with him a darkness and the ability to attack and control all in its way.
To prevail in this time age, Cage draws upon his martial arts training to unlock a source of power so incredible he has to die to attain it. Yet even as Cage races to find the answers, subduing his adversaries and outwitting conspirators, Mia is increasingly drawn to use her skills to achieve her personal interests, which include a newfound love.
Separated then reunited, the sibling’s individual journeys diverge, allowing the evil to fill the void between them. Intent on reclaiming his sister and preserve innocent lives, Cage must face the dark warrior in a realm where neither of them are fighting in their own bodies. The question of whether one can die while in spirit form unanswered.
When their father is taken by an unknown assailant, teen siblings Cage and Mia are left with nothing but their
dad’s old junk. Yet one of the old artifacts, a metal orb, holds a great power. It thrusts Cage and Mia back in time to medieval China, and they are captured by the fourteen-year-old Ming emperor. Fighting to prove his innocence, find his father, save the Emperor, and evade conspirators, Cage learns the frightening truth about his family — that he is part of a royal lineage that has been battling evil for nearly a thousand years. For Cage and Mia to survive the past and move forward through time, they must confront an invading army, command the dead, and bring sacred statues to life.