Michele L Coffman

This modern-day, commoner-to-royalty hero's journey will take you to distant worlds where power struggles will impact the human race.Casey Malanight is a strong, attractive woman, with a good heart and an intelligent mind. Casey finds herself drawn toward the role of a protector, and she becomes a detective for the New York City Police Department. However, everything is not as it seems. Elizabeth Malanight, an iron-willed, independent woman who has made many difficult decisions throughout her life, finds herself faced with the most challenging one yet. Her granddaughter, Casey, must die, and Elizabeth must be the one who sees it through.Casey quickly discovers that everything about her life is a lie. It's all a fabrication designed to hide not just the truth involving her life, but her human heritage as well. This is a unique sci-fi story shown through the eyes of the Malanight family. They risk all to protect the humans of Earth from unimaginable dangers which surround them. Take a journey around the cosmos in an adventure that will leave you wondering whether there really is life "out there."

Six months after Trish Webber wakes from her coma, the walled-in Rapid City has grown in both population and land. With Colonel Aralyn Williams and her militia protecting these citizens from the infected creatures who plague the planet, life appears to hold new meaning for the survivors. Nevertheless, appearances can be deceiving. Trish has fallen into her role, not only within Aralyn's militia, but with the life she and Christina Burgos have built together. Held strong with the love they have for each other, and their adopted daughter Jennifer, nothing can come between them. Or so they believe. For Christina, her family is everything, and she will do anything to keep them safe and away from danger. But for Trish, thanks to the recklessness of her parents, risking her life for the greater good isn't only her responsibility, it's her legacy.

New security recruit Trish Webber was born and raised in an underground bunker controlled by what was left of the U.S. government following a mysterious global disaster. After witnessing her mother's murder at age four, she is isolated from others by her uncaring father. Trish's main support comes from her mother's best friend and head of bunker security, Lieutenant Colonel Aralyn Williams. Trish is a principled but reticent loner only recently coming out of her shell.Eighteen-year-old Christina Burgos was raised in a walled-in community full of suffering. Hot-headed and courageous, Christina is opinionated and has many friends. The worldwide devastation came and went, but what remained were murderous creatures roaming the planet intent on killing and infecting any survivors. Despite danger, Trish is ready to leave the bunker and Christina leaves her walled-in city only to have a chance encounter that changes both their lives.Where did the infected monsters come from and will they overpower the last remnants of humanity? Will they learn the truth of what really happened nearly two decades earlier? And will Christina and Trish have a chance to develop their undeniable attraction when their physical survival is at such high risk?Don't miss this post-apocalyptic tale of loyalty and survival in the midst of world-wide disaster