Bøger af Mandi Jourdan

In this chapbook from Bloodstone Press, poet Sandy Wickersham-McWhorter uses her love of science-fiction to explore her experiences and reflect on the 1950s American family.

Johanna and her friends on the high school's scholar bowl team have never been popular, so when their classmates begin to ignore the team's existence completely, no one is immediately suspicious. It isn't until her teammates start to disappear that Johanna realizes something is very wrong. Can she determine what's happening to her friends before the dark figures haunting her nightmares come for her, too?

Leonidas Ravenwood joined Admiral Moore's Human Liberation Army with the goal of eliminating the bird-like volucri and protecting his family. He didn't anticipate the volucri would learn his identity and bring the fight to him. When Leonidas's home is attacked and his daughter is abducted, he how little his life and those of his family members mean to the Admiral. This becomes doubly terrifying when Leonidas's wife Septima volunteers to join the HLA in the hope that its resources will help her to find their daughter and Leonidas is ordered to train her to kill.

In the wake of her brother's murder and the devastating realization that someone she trusted was responsible, Desi Lawrence struggles to rebuild her life while dealing with the mental fallout of being betrayed and nearly killed. She takes on her brother's job at the helm of his robotics company, but someone wants her out of the way, and they're playing a deadly game with the people close to her to make that happen. While searching for the truth about who is tormenting them and why, Desi and her family find themselves caught in a web of government secrets and lies with the potential to destroy them all. "Androids with superhuman abilities and the family who created them are inextricably entwined in a battle for survival. Packed with love and loss, beauty and chaos, and shocking twists and turns, Mandi Jourdan's Veritas will make you hungry for more." -Brenda Marie Smith, author of If Darkness Takes Us and If the Light Escapes

An enigmatic young woman struggles to discover her role in solving a puzzling murder. After the slaying of a brilliant robotics pioneer, Lila must decide how far she'll go to catch the killer and uncover the real source of the ominous plot. In a race against time, the gutsy heroine must unearth the truth before the sinister forces aligned against her destroy everyone and everything she holds dear. Lacrimosa is a sci-fi thriller ride through a riveting world of cutting-edge androids, nefarious secrets, and shocking betrayals. Will justice or love prevail? "Lacrimosa is part sci-fi, part crime thriller, and all character-driven heart. With kick-ass, powerful women-both android and human-Jourdan gives voice to characters you'll love and love to hate. Laura Benedict, author of THE STRANGER INSIDE

Eddie Dodson has vanished along with Mia, the enigmatic android who helped him escape justice for the murder of his business partner and the framing of Lila, his company's first creation. Desi Lawrence is promoted to the co-president of Lawrence-Dodson Enterprises, and she strives to lead the company in a way that would make her brothers proud while dealing with night terrors, police suspicion, blackmail, and paralyzing flashbacks of being held at gunpoint by the man she loved. Meanwhile, her brother Derek, Lila, and Ravenna Mitchell pursue the truth behind Damian's murder and the shadowy government organization that played a hand in it, which leads them to the doorstep of Ravenna's aunt Clarisse-the original leader of the Division.

Lila has no memory of who she is or how she ended up walking the streets of Manhattan alone in July of 2232. She only knows she is being hunted by day and haunted through the night by dreams of a man she can't remember apart from when her subconscious self holds him at gunpoint. Still reeling from the death of his brother, Derek seeks justice. When he views footage incriminating Lila, the woman he's come to care for perhaps too greatly, Derek knows something is very wrong. Derek's sister Desi blames herself for Damian's death, unable to forget how unkind she was to him at their last meeting and how she never repaid him for taking care of her after the death of their parents. In her guilt, she turns to Ravenna, a trained assassin and Damian's fiancée, to ensure that Lila is brought to justice while Desi herself seeks comfort in her brothers' business partner Eddie. Derek vows to find Lila before the police-and Ravenna, who is resolute that murder should be punished.