Red Rain

Eighteen-year-old Stanyard Dass had every intention of leaving his past behind when he fled a religious containment camp. But his assimilation into society is threatened when his old neighbor Philadelphia, on the run from the law, begs for his help. She carries the key to a chemical superweapon, and the government will kill to get her back. Stanyard agrees to take her to safety—but when everything goes horribly wrong, he must decide which one of them will make it out alive.

After destroying the government’s superweapon, seventeen-year-old Philadelphia Smyrna leaps off a train in a desperate attempt to escape from prison. She survives, only to be kidnapped and held hostage by a politician from her past. He offers to set her free in exchange for a favor, but his terms seem too good to be true. Philadelphia soon realizes that her patronizing captor also has a deadly secret that puts them all at risk. With her former enemy Nic as her only ally, Philadelphia races to find out who’s really in charge—before her captor uses her to start a war.

After his empire on Mars collapses, Nic is convinced he’ll be left on the remote prison island of Rott to do exactly that. When the government offers him a pardon in exchange for his apocalyptic superweapon Red Rain, Nic seizes the opportunity, hoping to trick the officials and escape. But when the government threatens the one person he holds dear, Nic must decide whether to dance with the devil—or make a deal with his own worst enemy, Philadelphia Smyrna.

Believing the chaos of her adventure on Mars is behind her, seventeen-year-old Philadelphia Smyrna, an unassimilated Christian, faces a restricted but uneventful future. That is until she and her friend Cea are taken hostage to blackmail Cea’s wickedly genius brother into completing the infamous superweapon Red Rain. If he succeeds, the government will have the power to dissolve entire cities with acid. Desperate, the girls make a break for it. Thrust into the streets with a gun she’s afraid to shoot, Philadelphia realizes her battle with Red Rain is far from over—and this time, turning it over to the authorities is not an option.

All Ephesus Smyrna wants to do is protect his little sister from the oppressive government that killed their mother. But when his scientific success gets him noticed by the wrong people, he’s summoned to Mars against his will and forced to leave his sister behind in a state home. Desperate to return to Earth, Ephesus investigates the activity on the station and discovers that his research is being used for hideous experiments. Racing against the clock, Ephesus must find a way to stop a mad scientist from destroying Earth—and make it home alive.

Stripped of her rights for refusing to assimilate, sixteen-year-old Philadelphia Smyrna escapes Earth’s religious containment camps when her father is summoned to work on Mars. The remote research base seems like a haven of tolerance—until she discovers it’s the same base where her brother mysteriously died two years before. Searching for answers, she stumbles into a hidden lab and uncovers terrifying experiments for an apocalyptic weapon. The scientist in charge has cruel plans for Earth, and he will kill to keep his secret hidden. Racing to stay one step ahead, Philadelphia must decide whether to save the people who have oppressed her for her entire life—or save her family and let Earth burn.