From the Shadows

by K.B. Shaw

"AN INSTANT CLASSIC" -- ReadersFavorite.com "YA SCIENCE FICTION AT ITS FINEST" - Chanticleer Reviews "AN INTELLIGENT, INSPIRING ADVENTURE" -- Kirkus Reviews "THIS SERIES HAS A CHANCE TO MAKE IT BIG" -- SFReader It's been sixteen years since a reclusive child prodigy brought civility back to the digital world with the release of an AI based computer that required a simple "please" and "thank you" to function fully. Now he is about to unleash a new technology that could threaten the world. Two teens and a female reporter are drawn into an exciting and dangerous adventure. Cameron Rush and Rosa Costas are best friends, even though they have never met in person. Cameron lives in Troy, a small town in Wisconsin, while Rosa lives on a ranch outside Albuquerque, New Mexico. Cameron's schoolmates call him boring. He's an A/B student, second-seat trumpet in the school band, fourth-string halfback, and tenth-man on the basketball team. He is unbelievably meek and takes grief for it from others. He likes a challenge. At 5'-1", Rosa Costas is vivacious and petite. She is as outgoing as Cameron is meek. A friend once described her as "a hundred-pound package wrapped in a ton of personality." Rosa is also deceptively tough. Her mantel full of rodeo trophies attests to this fact. On the weekends and during vacations, she works as a cowgirl on a ranch. She is adept at languages and, like Cameron, enjoys solving puzzles and overcoming challenges. Meagan Fletcher, technology reporter for the World Broadband Network, has never named her multiCom AI. Because she knows the potential dangers technology can pose, she prefers to use her multiCom in manual mode, bypassing the AI altogether. She doesn't trust it--and she trusts GundTech even less. It is a company that seems too good to be true. Meagan is on a mission to expose the mysterious inventor behind GundTech and discover the computer company's true intent. As Rosa, Cameron, and Meagan race toward their destiny, they are oblivious to the dangers that lie ahead.

306 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2003

About the author

I grew up in small Wisconsin towns. Due to my father's work, I attended two grade schools and three high schools. I have fond memories of each.

I have always loved reading science fiction. In fact, the first book I remember checking out from the library on my own was The Enormous Egg by Oliver Butterworth. When I was a little older, it was André Norton's Catseye.

The first book I ever bought from the Scholastic Book Club was Mary Shelley's Frankenstein for a whopping 35¢. I still have that book and was so proud to have bought it with my own money that I saved the order form inside the book.



The Hardy Boys turned me on to mysteries and Mark Twain to humor. I really didn't read many superhero comic books. I preferred The Phantom and Uncle Scrooge adventures.

My high school and college reading took me into Robert Heinlein and Michael Crichton.
Authors such as Philip Pullman and J. K. Rowling brought me back to reading YA fiction.

I spent the first fifteen years of my adult life as a theater designer, director, actor, and playwright and I taught at the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse and Arizona State University.



With the introduction of the Macintosh computer, I moved into graphic design and computer education. I created the interface and more than 600 educational programs for the EduNet Network, and hosted live educational broadcasts into K-12 classroom across the country. I have also written nearly 900 video scripts for Pearson Education.

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