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Jagged Scars
Series · 7 books · 2015-2018

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#0, 5

Crumbled Bonds

2017

Jeff has exactly one thing left in this ruined world; his older brother, Dillon. They’ve seen and done things that drive most survivors crazy, and Jeff is afraid that the next encounter will push Dillon over the edge. After being hunted by Skinnies, as well as those who still claim humanity, they decide to head west over the mountains. Their journey is interrupted when they stumble on a shielded building. The Starvation happened almost twenty years ago, but the possibility of what could be inside is too alluring to pass up. The two alone aren’t enough to crack the shield. If they want in, they’re going to have to ask for help, and asking for help means dealing with people who will slit your throat for a scrap of good food.
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#1

Fractured Memories

2015

Sixteen year old Wendy never knew the world before the Starvation. She’s learned to put her trust in her knives, and her confidence in her fighting ability. When the Skinnies attack her compound, she's the lone survivor. Injured and near death, Wendy is rescued and nursed back to health by mysterious strangers. Her saviors offer her a place among them, but trust has never been one of Wendy's strengths, and suspicion soon leads to evidence that these people might be the group who killed her family. The decision to get her revenge, and take the settlement down from the inside out is easy. Keeping her distance from those she must befriend in order to make it happen proves to be much more difficult.
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#2

Severed Ties

2016

Wendy is no stranger to death—she killed her first Skinny before she was ten—but the slaughter of her family is personal. Pelton's betrayal to the Den planted a wicked seed in Wendy's heart that is slowly growing into a ravenous monster bent on revenge. Its rage is bleeding into her dreams, her nightmares and her waking hours, staining everything, including her sanity. When the monster almost overpowers her, Wendy decides she should leave Shelter. But before her friends will let her go, a plague sweeps through the complex. Doc doesn't have the meds they need to cure it, but the map Wendy wrestled from Pelton could lead them to a place that does. Now Wendy must hold her mind together long enough to keep everyone she knows from dying. Again.
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#3

Shattered Dreams

2016

Return to Wendy’s plight in the enthralling third installment of the Jagged Scars Series. Wendy conquered the monster in her mind. The people of Shelter are safe. For now. In the aftermath of the plague, the leaders of Shelter decide to go on the offensive. Wendy wants another shot at Pelton, and she is the first to volunteer. But Jeff has other ideas. He’s putting together a secret strike team, and he wants Wendy on board. It means going in first. It means a greater risk of death. It means letting someone else take care of Pelton. Unfortunately, Wendy is finding it more and more difficult to say no to Jeff. She thinks about him all the time. She wonders what he’s doing. She wants to be with him. They pretend to date so that no one will ask about the time they spend together for the strike team, but when Wendy realizes she’s no longer pretending, she wonders how a relationship will fit into her world. Download your copy of Shattered Dreams today and find out how Wendy copes with being twitterpated in the middle of a war.
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#4

Crippled Hope

2016

Wendy’s story continues in the thrilling fourth book of the Jagged Scars Series Wendy is good at killing Skinnies. Not consoling frightened people. Reeling from the fall of Shelter, and mourning the loss of too many friends, Wendy and the battered survivors must leave their broken home in search of another. As Jeff tries to keep the council together, Wendy rallies the remaining fighters in their defense, but more deaths and a clash of wills divide the people. Some insist they fight, others wish to run while a growing number desire to surrender to the Primate, falsely believing he will show them mercy. Up until now Wendy has been able to slash her way out of anything, but her knives prove useless as hunger, disease and discord threaten to rip not only the group apart, but also the growing relationship between her and Jeff. Download your copy of Crippled Hope today and find out if Wendy and Jeff’s budding love can make it through being opposing sides of an important issue.
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#4, 5

Spoiled Gambit

2018

Cal screwed up. He trusted the wrong guy. Wendy almost died and Shelter fell. In an attempt to assuage his own guilt, Cal joined a dangerous mission to lead the Primate’s people away from the survivors. While laying a false trail for the Primate’s Skinnies, Cal discovers some old friends, but he also finds an enemy even more dangerous than the Primate. Now the group must decide if their objective has changed. Cal will do anything to prove to the others, and maybe himself, that he’s not a traitor. But will it be enough to keep his friends safe?
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#5

Broken Worlds

2017

Wendy has watched too many of her friends and family fall prey to the Primate. Thousands have died at his hands, simply because he deemed them unworthy of life. With her newfound allies, who possess more information on the Primate's vicious plans for domination, Wendy urges her weakened people to strike. Outnumbered and outgunned, Wendy and Jeff lead a group into the heart of the Primate's city. When they find technology that could wipe out what is left of the world to make room for the Primate's believers, they each must decide what they are willing to sacrifice to keep their friends safe. Even if that sacrifice means losing each other.

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