Blueprints For Better Worlds By: Tenea D. Johnson Synopsis Two girls barely in their teens devise on escape from a world abandoned by the privileged, ravaged by climate change, and losing its way. Will they find what the world has lost and what they've a so far only found in one another? Can a manufactured heaven floating amongst the stars provide more than illusions of perfection? How might it improve the world that its customers vacated? When all you have left is the space between you, can you overcome the distance, and what might be lurking in the things that you don't say, the days can't share, the secrets you keep from your self? In the absence of government, how can the people left behind avoid a grim fate of air thinner by the day, hope thinner by the hour? Is home where you're from or how it treats you? How much a home is a place where you're not equal? Might you change that by stepping into another person's life? Or stepping into new territories with...
The Raven And The Banshee By: Carolyn Elizabeth Synopsis It's the early 1700's and sixteen-year-old Julia Farrow, spirited the daughter of a shipping company owner, lives and loves on her own terms. With a sharp mind and sharper tongue, she constantly defies family and society expectations with no regard for the consequences. Branna Kelly, only child of an Irish immigrant sailor, is hopelessly in love with Julia and imagines their life together as captains of their own fate. Left brokenhearted after Julia's rejection, she embarks on a journey to chart a new shipping route to the Caribbean. Before Julia can explain her decision, Branna's ship is overrun by merciless pirates. All hands are presumed lost. Fifteen years later, Julia is running the Farrow Company and sailing with the crew on her newest ship when an encounter with pirates leaves her the lone survivor to be rescued by the infamous Raven, hard-hearted captain of the mercenary ship, Banshee. Julia is shocked ...