I'm happy to announce the publisher Champagne Book Group has finalized the contract for Daughter of Zeus, and it will be out in July of 2014.
Until then, I will shower you with more academic book reviews and articles. I know, the truly fun stuff in life!
Possible back blurb:
The
future can be a terrifying prospect, especially when Ada Freyr discovers she can
manipulate electricity. Her newly acquired abilities result in the death of her
husband. Ada is numb with shock, and terrified of being discovered by the
Prominent-run State. Anyone deemed different is deemed an Undiligent, never to
be seen again. She is desperate to find the source of her power, believing her
estranged father to be the cause.
After
her mother is killed by Prominents, she leaves her hometown in Colorado to
begin a trip to Atlanta, Georgia. Ada learns new things about her powers along
the way, like that she can manipulate anything with electrical impulses,
including humans. Her mother's boyfriend, Kressick Lyman, insists on going
with her, keeping his own agenda well hidden.
Once
in Atlanta, Ada finds her father, Brontes Corentin, is very different from the alcoholic
she met as a child: he’s a House Representative with a new family and a new
name, ready to ascend to a Senator’s seat. His family has no knowledge of
his dark history.
Ada
pretends to like Corentin in order to get close to him, because her ultimate
plan, the real reason she came to Atlanta, is to kill her father.
Ada’s
revenge scheme lands her on the Undiligent list, leads a stranger to stalk her
every move, and stunts her relationship as a sister to her new siblings. Soon,
she has to decide which is more important, an old vendetta or forgiving the man
she blames for ruining her life.
