Republic Under Siege: Threat from Within (#2 Wars of New Humanity series) is written by Michael J. Brooks and is a science fiction/futuristic novel. This is the story of Akane and her journey into a new way of life. She meets people, some she likes and some she hates. Akane, an immigrant, hails from a satellite planet in an area known as NeoJapan, and through a lottery of sorts, she is allowed to go to Eden and is offered a new way of living. Eden is the motherland and is the Utopia of the future.
Kat is finally living her best life with her husband Carl and their two girls when all of a sudden Dave, her ex-boyfriend, shows up in her doorway as a ghost. Dave wants to know what had happened to him, and Kat can’t help but be curious too. In order for them to find out what had happened to Dave, Kat has to revisit the past, which is hard for her to do as Kat had a rough past. Kat and Dave also had so many ups and downs. There had been so much hurt between them but also so much love. After revisiting their past, can they figure out what happened to Dave?
A Million Views features a kid named Brewster Gaines. He loves posting his videos on YouTube and watching his views go up and up and up, always trying to reach for that seven digit number: one million views. However, his videos have always been a little underfunded or more accurately, unfunded. He has never quite gotten there. However, when one of his actor's friends is ready to pour $5,000 into a five minute trailer for a movie that doesn’t exist, Brewster takes up the challenge.
Music-loving Azar's vocal cords are broken. So broken, in fact, that talking is excruciating, so she just doesn't. She doesn't answer questions in class, and she avoids every one of her peers besides her middle schooler cousin, Roya. One day, after a particularly stressful altercation in the halls, Azar scampers off to the janitor's closet to relieve stress in the way she always does: by playing music. Things go sideways, however, when her drumming destroys a thousand dollar's worth of cleaning supplies.
Edward the egg loved his family's famous secret recipe for "yummy to the tummy" cheese biscuits! Since he can now cook, he takes a trip to the grocery store to purchase the ingredients. Edward is scared that someone at the grocery store will mistake him for an egg they can cook, so he decides to go there in the early morning when fewer shoppers will be there. Once he gets to the grocery store, he meets an old lady named Sally. He notices that Sally is having trouble reaching the biscuits, so he helps her reach them.
Beau Devereaux is a teenage psychopath who struggles to maintain a respectable image. His dad is a well-known business owner, and Beau is expected to take over the family business one day. Beau is quarterback of the school football team and has a reputation of being a good sport. However, Beau has dark demons struggling to come out. The river, a place where Beau and his buddies like to party, is the only place where Beau's demons come out to play. The river has an Abbey where Beau can inflict pain on others in private, and with a well know rich family, there is no one to stop him.
Marvin, Tori, and Noah don't want to be on their 7th-grade class trip to Raven Island Prison. Tori would rather be on the field with her teammates playing soccer, Marvin wants to be at a film festival, and Noah would rather just be at home than in that creepy prison. The three are paired to be buddies for the field trip and slowly start to build a friendship. However, when they sneak away from the rest of the group into the woods, they notice something very strange: ghosts. They know something very creepy is going on and rush back to find their school group.
After watching her parents’ relationship fall apart, Beth is determined to keep her five friends together no matter what. Nothing will separate them, not even college. But when tragedy strikes and one of her friends, Jason, almost dies, she realizes that she might not be holding on tight enough, or worse, she might not be enough. But a few weeks later, everyone else seems to want to forget that anything happened, and they are even considering attending different colleges! Beth can’t understand. Don’t they feel the crushing weight of keeping Jason alive?
