Martial Law vs. Religion Run Amok “What God demands of us –” Those were the chilling final words of Major Dane Beaufort, before a mob beat him to death in the streets of Pittsburgh. Beaufort was the martial law Resco, resource coordinator, assigned to lead the city through the climate change crisis. The punishment for interfering with a Resco is death. The consequences for murdering one have yet to be devised.Tech whisperer Dee Baker and her partner Resco Emmett MacLaren led Project Reunion to save New York City. The world watches to see what the hero couple will tackle next, while the opposition sells headlines with every bump in their rocky relationship. Dee longs to escape New York to a greener life. But Emmett is available when news hits of Beaufort’s murder. The political stakes are higher than the fate of Pittsburgh. The martial law governors care enough to send their very best – Emmett and Dee.Dee is constitutionally unfit to play second fiddle. But she accompanies Emmett into his native Bible Belt to assist. Plagued by tornados and isolated from the rest of the world, Pittsburgh has gone rogue, and it’s up to them what to do about it. But the forces afoot are darker than they imagined. And Dee’s about to fall into their trap.Martial Lawless is book 3 of the Calm Act Series, which began with End Game.

Have a date yet for the end of the world as we know it? Dee Baker, star programmer for a Fortune 100 media powerhouse, has options. She also has access to the secret plans of the U.S. government to make the end of the world survivable, for some. The ultimate job benefit is a berth in an ark, safe from the storms as climate change accelerates, and the processes that normalize Earth’s climate sputter and fail. Set in Connecticut, this near-term SF adventure is pre-apocalyptic, where ordinary people choose extraordinary ways to face a climate and world gone haywire. Will Dee be one of the fortunate few to get an ark berth? Or is that even the goal?

A Daring Plan to Save a Dying City New York City is hopeless. When Ebola broke out, the ruthless Calm Act walled off the city behind armed borders. Otherwise contagious refugees would flood out and devastate the whole Northeast. The survivors outside, struggling to make ends meet in a chaotic climate and collapsed economy, are grateful. But they feel guilty as sin. The agony of New York weighs heavy on the regional conscience. Dee Baker and her lover Emmett MacLaren propose their own daring plan to resolve the crisis. Dee leads the Amenac Internet empire, bypassing the Calm Act’s censorship to empower survivors to help themselves. Emmett is a martial law governor anointed within the Calm Act to lead and rebuild. The rule-breaker and the rule-maker could prove a dynamic partnership – or be torn apart. Now that the crops are in, can the Northeast afford to rescue a tormented New York? Or is it too perilous to try, with another state beyond their borders threatening war? Project Reunion is the sequel to End Game, book 2 in the Calm Act series. **

The Calm Act is born in the dust of Kansas Fort Leavenworth Kansas is home to the elite US Army Command School. Major Emmett MacLaren and his roommates look forward to a placid year pursuing master’s degrees in advanced military planning. But all is not well in Kansas. A Dust Bowl is brewing to rival the worst hard times of the twentieth century Depression. Rivers and aquifers are running dry. Race riots and refugees fill the news. And Command School is doing something strange this year with its curriculum. Its officer scholars will focus on war-gaming a single scenario, in utter secrecy – the collapse of the United States due to climate change. Emmett and his roommates are tasked with vetting the Calm Act, a plan to meet the climate change crisis with nation-wide martial law – and worse. Dust of Kansas is a prequel short story in the Calm Act (End Game) universe. It features military characters from End Game and its sequel, Project Reunion.