Fate Born

In the year 3,121, the planet Drammat rules its utopian galaxy with innovation and compassion. The graduates of the Grand Drammatan Academy are the writers of their society’s future.

As the youngest student ever admitted to the Academy, 16-year-old Aria Blake is on edge when her lifelong visions of a teenage boy named Luca become more frequent and intense just before the school year begins.

With mental illness being a thing of the past and a stigma for the rare few who still face it, she’s forced to hide the truth or risk losing everything she's worked for.

When she runs into Luca, alive and in the flesh, at the Academy orientation, her whole world is flipped upside down. It's immediately clear that Luca has secrets of his own, but Aria feels an instant, almost supernatural connection to him. When he eventually opens up to her about his past on Earth - something that should be impossible - Aria learns that Drammat isn't as benevolent as it leads its citizens to believe.

Luca begs Aria to keep his secret to protect both of their lives, but when they uncover a heinous plot on an Academy field trip to the frozen planet Sratta, they must choose between protecting themselves and saving thousands of innocent lives.

Secrets of Sratta is the first installment of The Fate Born Tetralogy, a sci-fi coming-of-age adventure about family, friendship, first love, and finding yourself as you rise to the challenge in extraordinary circumstances.

The Fate Born Tetralogy is for readers of The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer, The Pillars of Reality Series by Jack Campbell, and The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins.

Michelle grew up in a tiny mountain town in Colorado to two entrepreneur parents who always encouraged her to pursue her dreams and work hard. Though she always had a love of good stories and an affinity for writing, she considered writing fiction to be a risky career choice, so she went to school for "practical writing." Her degrees are in Journalism and Strategic Organizational Communication and Advocacy. After taking up a full-time position in her family business, a piano teaching app called Piano Marvel, while raising her two young children with her teacher-coach husband, she recognized that her passion for writing wasn't being quenched by the articles she was writing for her day job. Since deciding to pursue authorship in November 2020, she has found more fulfillment than she knew was possible. Fate Born: Secrets of Sratta is her debut novel, but the second and third books in the Fate Born Tetralogy are well on their way to readers' shelves with Book 2 set to release in April 2025.