Utopic/Dystopic 🏙️

Banished from Librona, Calliope and Mido find themselves on their own. Leaving their old lives behind, they create new identities for themselves, desperate to keep Calliope's true identity a secret from the rest of the world. But spies scour the land for the witch on the run, and when Calliope suddenly goes missing, Mido is forced to return to Librona where he uncovers a trail of secrets that will forever change the world.

Thousands of years after his imprisonment, vampire Prince Zadrian Vayne escapes and begins his journey of vengeance against those who made him a captive.  After meeting the dangerous alien, Vast, the two of them decide upon a pact to achieve their aims.   Their story takes them across the universe to fight the vampiric Triarchy and other threats, whilst building power and allies, as well as making numerous enemies.  But, will those that Zadrian meets along the way change him from the cold and cruel vampire that he is into something different altogether, or will he ultimately become just another ruthless force for evil?  

200 years in the future, the world is ruled by Cathleen Morsie, an evil woman with crazy plastic surgery to make her more powerful and imposing. Sage Cordell is a rebellious and sarcastic high school girl who is hard to contain. One day at school she breaks the rules so bad that she gets sent to Cathleen. Little did she know that Cathleen put a robotic cell in everyone's brains at birth, and is looking for those very few individuals who can resist it. After joining the gang, Sage realizes that Cathleen has no good intentions, and fights to escape the new hold she has on them.

The city of Londinium is made up of several thousand people scraping out an existence in a man made cavern. With Earth’s surface uninhabitable, the sub-city relies on highly sophisticated life support machinery for their continued existence. Keeping all that machinery in working order is a difficult task, considering it’s been in place for close to a century. 

On one hand, Londinium has Tarriq to oversee the upkeep of the systems that make continued life possible. He’s a specialist when it comes to this. On the other hand, Tarriq is an ill-tempered misanthrope. If he could live a hermit’s life with his partner Meshani, he would in a heartbeat. But the sub-city desperately needs his unique skills.

Unfortunately, no matter how hard Tarriq tries, the machinery needs more and more upkeep with each passing year. Multiple unexpected equipment failures have Tarriq running himself ragged. He can keep jury rigging the systems for only so long, as they really need to be replaced, and that job is entirely too big for just one person. 

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Book 1 of the series "A Song in the Darkness"

The Center. 

The Center holds supernatural patients (teenagers)...

Against their will. Their abilities were infiltrated/inputted into their blood without consent. The Center is hidden from the outside world, so nobody really knows where their children head off to. 

And they never will. It's such a shame. A real pity, really.

:)

~Mr. Smiley