Pawn (Strategy)

17-year-old Rogue has always classified herself as socially awkward, preferring video games over a trip to the mall. When she wakes up in a forest, she finds that life as she knew it has changed forever, and she cannot remember how. In fact, she can’t remember the last 6 months at all. As she navigates this new world she soon discovers a talent for combat and survival she'd never had before. A handy ability in a world where humans compete in a game governed by rules she can't remember. Ronin, a talented 19-year-old, was wrenched from his Midwest home and forced to compete with a Skaki set. Despite the set's repeated losses, Ronin has proven himself a powerful player, his sights set on surviving each match--no matter the cost. When a new pawn is added to his set to replace one they lost, Ronin begins to break out of the shell he built around himself and reexamines what he and the other humans have become.

J.C. Ahern has been an avid reader of YA, Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Action novels since she was a child. She's also a lover of video games, manga/anime, cartoons, and basically any "nerdy" thing she can get her hands on. In the eighth grade she decided she wanted to write her own stories instead of just reading/watching them, and after a Bachelor's degree in Creative Writing from Stephens College, and much editing and revision, her novels in the Strategy series were born. She continues to write at her rural home in Missouri, in-between coaching her niece's softball team, playing video games, reading, working as a Nurse Practitioner, and playing with her cats-Rogue, Quigley, and Sunny.