REGINA SHEN: SALVAGE Living on the seaward side of barrier walls built to protect against rising seas, the only means of survival for Regina Shen is underwater salvage, which is banned by the World Federation. After a storm takes her friend’s family and home, Regina is determined to help by defying the Federation.
REGINA SHEN: INTO THE STORM Outcast Regina Shen is condemned to live on the seaward side of walls built to hold back rising seas from abrupt climate change. A hurricane threatens to destroy what’s left of her world. Regina enters the storm with a home, mom, and sister, but that’s all about to change. This is the novelette that launched the Regina Shen series and was expanded into Regina Shen: Resilience.
UNINTENDED REBEL In a world where boys and girls are forcibly segregated, Annabelle Scott fancies a guy she spies in a nearby prison. When she attempts to make contact, she runs afoul of the law. She tumbles into situations that challenge her beliefs and just may turn her into an unintentional rebel.
MAIDEN VOYAGE Security Chief Nina Rekovic keeps the peace on the all-female Maiden’s Ark that left Earth five years before. Distress signal says Earth is lost, stranding lunar colonists. Someone sabotages the vital fertility lab. While balancing Returners she sympathizes with, a dictatorial captain, and an estranged lover who betrays her, can Rekovic solve the conspiracy before she’s imprisoned or worse?
SHE-DEVIL ROCKS Inspired by Lord of the Flies. Bullied as the smallest of thirteen boys in his class, Bradley is on plane that crashes on a remote island with a bully who is out of control. Bradley meets a mysterious tomboy who shouldn’t be there and has to learn to survive on the hostile island, deal with her, and come to terms with the bully.
WATCHING YOU Chilling short story of government surveillance. At the intersection of global tracking, pervasive networks, mass storage, and the Patriot Act, we have the ability and some say the obligation to know everything about everyone. Can privacy survive? Can the individual endure? Harold is a second-class citizen and a cog in a government surveillance system charged with reviewing “criminal activity.” He has private thoughts about a woman he’s forbidden from approaching, and he will not be deterred.
Lance Erlick writes science fiction thrillers for adult and young adult readers. In 2018, he launched his Android Chronicles novels with Reborn and continued it with Unbound and Emergent. This series follows the challenges of Synthia Cross, wrestling with the download of a human mind and emergent behavior while confronted by humans who seek to control her. In the Rebel series, Annabelle Scott faces a crisis of conscience after she’s drafted into the military to enforce laws she believes are wrong. The Regina Shen series takes place after abrupt climate change leads to Collapse and a new World Federation. As an outcast, Regina must fight to stay alive and help her family while she avoids being captured. Xenogeneic: First Contact is about aerospace engineer Elena Pyetrov’s struggles with alien pilgrims determined to take over Earth.