Nothing is Promised

Series · 2 books · 2020-2021

By Susan Kaye Quinn

Books in series

When You Had Power

2020

For better, for worse. In sickness and in health. It’s a legal vow of care for families in 2050, a world beset by waves of climate-driven plagues. Power engineer Lucía Ramirez long ago lost her family to one—she’d give anything to take that vow. The Power Islands give humanity a fighting chance, but tending kelp farms and solar lilies is a lonely job. The housing AI found her a family match, saying she should fit right in with the Senegalese retraining expert who’s a force of nature, the ex-Pandemic Corps cook with his own cozy channel, and even the writer who insists everything is stories, all the way down. This family of literal and metaphorical refugees could be the shelter she’s seeking from her own personal storm. She needs this one to work. Then an unscheduled power outage and a missing turtle-bot crack open a mystery. Something isn’t right on Power Island One, but every step she takes to solve it, someone else gets there first—and they’re determined to make her unsee what she’s seen. Lucía is an engineer, not a detective, but fixing this problem might cost her the one thing she truly a home . When You Had Power is the first of four tightly-connected hopepunk novels in a near-future climate-fiction series. It’s about our future, how society will shift and flex like a solar lily in the storms of our own making, and how breaks in the social fabric have to be expected, tended to, and healed. Because we’re in this together, now more than ever before. If you enjoyed the optimistic climate solutions in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Ministry for the Future or the cozy cooperative future in Becky Chambers’ Monk and Robot series, you will enjoy Nothing is Promised.

You Knew the Price

2021

The choice you make is the future you create. Climate-driven plagues haunt humanity, and it’s Regional Director Zuri Hill-Gray’s job to keep the clean-energy grid running. Zuri has the perfect life—a beautiful home on the Hillstead, a loving family, and a powerful job keeping the LA Basin’s grid humming. If only she didn’t see the ghost of her dead twin in the mirror. Her grief-counselor husband understands too much, her Aunties Cora and Vivian smother her to excess, and her mother can’t look at her daughter without seeing the half that’s missing. Zuri can’t begin to face her sister’s little daughter—to Ruby, Zuri is the ghost. Which is why she’s running away to work, again, on the anniversary of her sister’s death. Then a power engineer walks into Zuri’s office and claims someone is stealing energy from Power Island One—and they’ve tried to kill her to cover it up. The more Zuri digs, the more it’s clear someone’s been tinkering in the shut-down fusion labs. They’re going to dangerous lengths to hide it, and it’s been happening right under her nose. Which is how Regional Directors lose their jobs. Zuri’s already lost her better half—she can’t afford to lose this, too. You Knew the Price is the second of four tightly-connected novels in a new hopepunk series. It’s about our future, how society lives on invisible things, like electricity and trust, that are far too easy to break… and how our most difficult moments are often when we discover the only path forward is healing not just ourselves but the world.

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Susan Kaye Quinn

Author · 57 books

CLICK HERE for a FREE STORY Susan Kaye Quinn is a rocket scientist turned speculative fiction author who now uses her PhD to invent cool stuff in books. Her works range from young adult science fiction to adult future-noir, with side trips into royal fantasy romance and middle grade. Her bestselling novels and short stories have been optioned for Virtual Reality, translated into German and French, and featured in several anthologies. She writes full-time from Chicago, inventing mind powers and dreaming of the Singularity. All of Sue's books: YOUNG ADULT SCIENCE FICTION Singularity Novel Series The Legacy Human (Singularity #1) The Duality Bridge (Singularity #2) The Illusory Prophet (Singularity 3) Stories of Singularity Restore (Stories of Singularity #1) Containment (Stories of Singularity #2) Augment (Stories of Singularity #3) Awakening (Stories of Singularity #4) Harvest (Stories of Singularity #5) Defiancé (Stories of Singularity #6) Resistance (Stories of Singularity #7) Mindjack Series Open Minds Book #1) Closed Hearts (Book #2) Free Souls (Book #3) Locked Tight (Book #4) Cracked Open (Book #5) Broken Wide (Book #6) Mindjack Short Story Collection (Book #7) WATCH the award-winning live-action Mindjack Book Trailer! SWEET, ROYAL ROMANCE Third Daughter (The Royals of Dharia #1) Second Daughter (The Royals of Dharia #2) First Daughter (The Royals of Dharia #3) ADULT FUTURE NOIR The Debt Collector: LIRIUM (Season One) The Debt Collector: WRAITH (Season Two) WATCH the Debt Collector Book Trailer ANTHOLOGIES Synchronic Telepath Chronicles AI Chronicles Dark Beyond The Stars Future Chronicles Cyborg Chronicles CLONES: The Anthology MIDDLE GRADE Faery Swap WATCH the Faery Swap Book Trailer CONTACT SUSAN Susan's Website | Susan's twitter | Susan's Facebook Page Susan's Email: susankayequinn@comcast.net