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She arrived, and now she wants to stay… Book Two in the heralded science fiction series The United States Government understands the threat, even if no one else on Earth does. Mercenaries, paid to stay off the books and eradicate whatever is placed in front of them, descend on the small town of Grayson, Georgia. With Will at the helm, they know only one purpose: find the alien, and anyone it inhabits, then kill it. No matter the costs. Morena lives inside Byran and Thera, using both of them for her singular purpose: to bring her species back from the dead. Her children grow beneath the Earth’s surface, waiting on her to come forth, to bring back her original body, so that they can begin populating the world. Four teenagers and their families are caught between these two opposing forces, only trying to make it out alive. Michael and Julie remain kidnapped by the same government trying to protect Earth, used for information, and certain to meet death once they give up what they know. As Morena moves closer to her kind’s birth, and the mercenaries clamp down on the town, the only question that matters becomes: will anyone survive?
Author
I used to deliver pizza. I was pretty good at it, too. I mean, it's not that hard, but if I'm not going to brag, who is, right? Anyways, so I'm delivering pizza while I'm in college, and my boss has been in the pizza industry like six years. He's supposed to graduate from college this year, and I ask him, what are you going to do after college? We're all supposed to go out and conquer the world right after college, so this guy has to have some kind of plan. He looked at me like I was delusional. "I'm a writer, man." Those four words changed my life more so than anything else ever spoken to me. I'd always written, since I was twelve participating in online-wrestling forums in which you acted out your character. I wrote because it came naturally. Never once, in the entirety of my nineteen years did I think that writing could be a career though, until a Pizza Sage said those four words to me. So what did I do? I went home and wrote a short story and immediately understood that I was the greatest writer to ever touch a keyboard. I brought it to the Pizza Sage and he told me what anyone could have told me—it was horrible. I might be dumb, probably am, but I'm also tenacious. I spent the next seven years writing almost every day. My first novel grew to the length of 40,000 words, then I threw it away. My second novel grew to 140,000 words. I didn't throw it away, but it was rejected about 50 times by agents. My next novel ended up at around 55,000 words, which I showed to a few friends and shelved. Then I wrote Dead Religion, which is the only reason I have an author page at Amazon. I have had four short stories published, paid and unpaid. 'Effects May Vary' won an award that was voted on by readers, which was pretty cool. I'm currently getting my Masters in Business at the University of Georgia's Terry School of Business. I'm doing this in order to not deliver pizzas but still keep the lights on. I have a girlfriend who will soon be my fiancé, and after ten years, I imagine she's ready for that title. I want to own a yacht.
