Böcker utgivna av Charles Sweet

A future nobody wanted, and revenge that's well deserved.In the near future, cloning is not only legal, but sanctioned by the United States government. The Madison Rule dictates what a clone is, and the scant rights that clones have, as well as the multitude of rights they don't. Clones, or models, as they are commonly known, aren't people. Extremist groups like the Human Pride Movement fight to keep the models in their proper place at the bottom of the social hierarchy. Only a handful of people have found themselves entangled with HPM and survived. Larken is one of those people.After a harrowing attack that nearly cost Larken the use of her legs, she has finally recovered, but she'll never be the sports superstar that she'd planned on for her future. She doesn't know what her future will look like any longer, only that she hasn't died, and she's tired of fighting. Larken naively believes that she's free of the conflict, and thanks in part to her stalwart friends, she might have an opportunity at a normal life.When Larken's friend and roommate Samantha disappears, the stark truth becomes crystal clear that there is no future for Larken without forever being harassed by the group that once tried to kill her and her brother, for it's the same group that kidnapped and assaulted her roommate. Only a single question remains once Larken discovers what HPM has done: does she honor her friend's wishes and let the incident go unanswered, or does hot-headed Larken take up a revenge mission? The decision may kill what's left of her dreams and may even go so far as to cost Larken her life.The protagonist of Evasion and Defiance is back, and she just might be bringing hell with her.

In the future, what's real and what's not is...complicated.The year is 2210. The United States has recently recovered from an totalitarian government known as Akston Society, and survived climate change, though with great losses: a desert stretches from Wyoming to Minnesota. Cloning is legal, and artificial intelligence is stunted by regulation and international treaties. Mars is colonized, mostly, trade is flowing...and Larken Marche's fraternal twin brother may be a murderer.The police have recorded footage of Larken's brother bludgeoning someone to death at a stoplight in the dregs of Portland. Even knowing that he was sleeping in the student dormitory at Brighton Academy when it happened, she can't deny her eyes: it was either him, or someone identical. Two strange new students who arrive at Brighton, one of whom appears a carbon copy to Larken herself, prompt her to investigate the mysterious benefactor who pays for her and her brother to attend the most widely acclaimed boarding school in the country.What Larken discovers might free her brother, but to use it would destroy any hope of a future either of them have. In this ensemble-cast sci-fi thriller, Larken must decide whether to pursue legal means to gain her brother's freedom, which could jettison any hope of a future, or try to spring him with the help of her plucky friends, an act which could end with her in jail. The police want to question her, an extremist organization want her dead, and a woman too perfect and deadly to be real chases Larken and her friends through the pages of Evasion and Defiance.