My debut novel, Inner World, doesn’t come out until late spring.
Join Inner World and the journey of a teenage girl’s discovery of the transformational power of love and her exploration of how the leaps of the human mind can join forces with the wonders of science to reshape the world. Seventeen-year-old Joslyn Livingston has a gift; she hears thoughts and feels energy when she sings. But she never guessed it was her mixed DNA to blame. When she’s taken back to her birth home of Inner world—a placed filled with beautiful people and advanced technology, she discovers the world is so much more than she’s been told. At first, Joslyn is awestruck by Inner World’s beauty and the people’s centuries-long lifespans, but then she discovers their advanced genetics come from gene manipulation through selective breeding. To keep their perfected genes from mixing with the inferior ones of the Surface, Inner World has complex portals to keep the worlds separated. But when attacks happen on the portals, war becomes the only option. To gain influence to stop the war, Joslyn must compete in a grueling competition to earn a spot on the Council—Inner World’s ruling body. When contestants have trained their entire lives, Joslyn will need everything, maybe even more than her gifted genetics, to win a place on the Council. But when feelings for her trainer turn to forbidden ones of love, her only hope of them being together is a perfect gene match. And with hundreds being paired, it seems only an act of fate will keep them together. Yet, with every day that passes, the tension at the portals grows, creating talk of not just an attack but of a complete reset. Joslyn finds herself making risky deals, taking part in painful activating hacks, and betraying the one she loves in order to save Surface World. She’s survived by staying several steps ahead, but this is a new world, with new political rules that might cost her not only her life but the lives of those she loves. Filled with forbidden romance, a divided world, enhanced abilities, and a challenging competition, Inner world will the reader questioning, what truly lies beneath the surface.