Book 1: Firestorm
Fifteen-year-old Celia Walsh works among trees at a wildlife restoration project. She's angry with her brother Leo for joining an interstellar colony fleet, and even more so with her parents for accepting his invitation to abandon Earth. Their ship warps through time, arriving at the new world to find her brother murdered after promising that his kid sister would save the colony from a deadly solar flare. Now, Celia must grieve, sort through Leo's clues, and navigate a colony torn between preserving humanity and accepting alien mutation. Leo discovered powers controlled using social bonds, ones that Celia has only ever avoided. With a firestorm threatening the colony, Celia must race to transform at the cost of her whole world.
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Who is Dan Adiletta?
W ith twenty years in classroom instruction, Dan Adiletta teaches high school Computer Science part-time. The rest of his hours are devoted to writing speculative fiction able to hold even his students' attention.
Coaching competitive robotics gives him first-hand experience with brilliant young minds under intense strain. His students inspire him. They live the themes that genius is nothing without persistence, and that courage is often about showing up tired. Because of them, he knows how to write heroes who pay a price for their ingenuity.
Dan reads and rereads books on writing, attends conferences and literary workshops, runs a writing group, and is often baited into long classroom tangents about crafting stories. He committed to writing professionally on Father's Day, 2019.
He lives in Cleveland with his wife and son.