KYMIERA (Season Book 1)

In our technologically dependent world everything stops when the wi-fi dies. It’s a total disaster, until it’s fixed and forgotten.

What if it’s never fixed? Not because of some accident or act of terror, but because everyone is too scared to leave their homes? Because they fear the distorted genetic monstrosities their friends and families have become. Terrified they might become the same. Fragile society collapses: No food. No power. Apocalypse!

But that was twenty years ago. The survivors from that terrible time have patched up what was left of civilisation until it worked again, just barely, and then they forgot.

Now they pretend nothing has changed, with tracking chips in their heads, food rationing, and crumbling infrastructure they cannot repair. But they still fear the freaks and huddle in isolated communities throughout the desolate cities they still call home.

Chloe Dark wants to join the ‘Purity’ and help rid the world of monsters, starting with her home in Manchester. She goes to school and studies hard but these days Chloe’s always hungry, she knows that’s not right, but her genetic purity tests always come back clean. Until
the day she can no longer deny she is changing into something else. But what? Then her closest friend is kidnapped and Chloe vows to find her before her time runs out.

DI Mitchell remembers how it was before the collapse. Nowadays his job is to track down and kill the freaks. He’s good at it. Too good. Finding kidnapped girls is not what he does, until his boss has him babysitting a Purity Agent up from London. As their investigation
progresses the situation becomes ever more complicated and politically charged until something has to break.

Dog knows he has never been normal, but he’s not a freak, he’s something else. So he helps his boss, Mr Mendelssohn, buying and selling freaks for the illegal fights, doing odd jobs, nothing too nasty because Mr Mendelssohn doesn’t go in for violence—at least that’s the
official line. But Dog wants a pack he can call his own, and when he catches the scent of others like him, he can’t ignore it.

In this rotting husk of civilisation, political power, industry and the law are in delicate balance. The whole unstable construct is about to be brought down by one young woman with a simple goal: before she becomes a freak and dies, she must rescue her missing friend.

One reviewer said: “Excellent! A gripping dystopian future world. It is a good sign when a book is satisfying while leaving you wanting more.”

KYMIERA has already been signed up for TV production but that’s years away. You can read it right now.

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