Shattering Red

The wars and large environmental disasters were long over, but they had left a permanent mark world-wide. Afthonia was one of the few cities to rise from the rubble and turn into a well populated metropolis. The nanotech city mostly kept to itself, the wilds outside were dangerous and the Entomo robotics and vertical faming had people wanting for little more than social needs. The Surrogacy Center had fixed the population decline through braindead clones of those deemed worthy with the best genetics. The cities inhabitants did what they pleased.

Veda was no exception. She was proud to be twenty-seven and working for the top researcher at the Surrogacy Center. That changed the moment her small team became targeted. Why were they of interest? What made them dangerous? How would she survive?

Approx 234 pages 57,447 words

K.D. Merchant lives beneath the Cascades in Washington State with her husband and children. She likes to write thought provoking work through simple ideas to generate discussion. Shattering Red is her debut novel, and she is eagerly working on her next books.