Kea's Migration

by Erika Hammerschmidt

Kea has been adapting to life on a planet. Sunshine and air, plants and animals... maybe even a breakthrough in her quest to solve the old mystery of Mara and the Fish Pond. But then the neighboring city of Arna ruins it all. Arna's genetic weapons have shown up in Gaudi before. Animals that kill on command. Spies wearing the skin of clones. It was plenty of reason to build the protective dome. But now the dome is surrounded by a deadly symbiosis of plants and insects, engineered to trap them inside forever. Kea's only hope is to ally with a resistance movement in the heart of Arna itself. And when a coded message appears in a simulation, that hope suddenly becomes real. The trip to Arna is a journey into a whole new mystery. A complex world of foreign culture and politics, where nearly everything is alive... and a lot of it wants to kill her. And, like a fish gliding along just beneath the surface, the secret of Mara keeps following her as she goes...

600 pages, Paperback

Published March 31, 2021

About the author

My first name is Erika. Not Erica. Not Ericka. My last name is Hammerschmidt, which has thirteen letters, including five consonants in a row. People still find it easier to spell than my first name.

In college I majored in German and Spanish. I also accidentally minored in art, just by taking so many art classes for the fun of it. I grow my own vegetables and sew my own clothes. I am obsessed with pet birds and reptiles. I make jewelry that looks like a Renaissance Fair gone wild.

I'm an author, artist and speaker who moved from Minnesota to Pennsylvania, and then to Los Angeles. Going by temperature, I'm on the road to hell.

I work in a pharmacy as well as giving speeches on autism and writing books.