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Nearly a century after the end of the fourth World War, the walled city of New Haven rises imposingly above the trees in the southern district of Region One - a testament to a society finally recovering from years of violence and paranoia... or at least, it did. Distressing signals from neighboring towns report screaming coming from within, and any and all lines of communication are either dead or going unanswered. Sent in the pursuit of reestablishing communications and discovering the truth, a scouting team finds themselves in the middle of something far greater than they could ever imagine.

The first book I ever published through Amazon! I wrote this one in my sophomore year of high school (2015-2016) and got it published in January of 2018 when I was 18 years old. It was a massive undertaking during one of the most stressful years of school.

 Of flesh, blood, and a compromised genetic code, Dusty Dawson was a girl that was born imperfect and lived imperfectly.
In a world rife with death and conflict, she found it hard to ever say that any one event in her life caused it to fall apart. In truth, the entire world had been falling apart for many years before she was born. Widespread strain in the relationship between those with perfect genes and those without bred unrest and hatred, and rising tensions between world powers led to bloodshed. 

A dying Earth suffered only further as forests became deserts and their raw materials became machines of war. Colonization efforts shoved the burdens of overpopulation and a lack of resources onto near and distant planets alike as an all-devouring cosmic plague.
One war took her parents, and the next took her two older brothers. And now, she's spent the past two months chasing nothing but smoke and shadows after the death of her little brother, taken too soon during a fire whose true origins remain a mystery to everyone but Dusty herself.

A need for revenge grows within her, and with every day that it remains unsatisfied, it only festers. Paranoid, outcast, and forsaken, Dusty is rapidly finding that she cannot trust anyone as her search quickly pulls her into an undertow that runs deeper and stronger than she ever anticipated.

My junior year Young Author's submission! Originally written in 2016-2017 and published in 2018.

There is very little that is for certain about the world of before, but two things remain engrained. Corruption, and relations stretched taut between warring nations. Amidst communist tensions, the tight string that held the world together suddenly snapped. The bombs fell, and the surface was reduced to nothing but ash. But when all the world burned, Katra Polis remained - the final bastion of civilization tucked safely underground. Spared from the destruction, a portion of the American people live on, and have lived on for many decades as the sun and moon passed unknowably above them. The work could be hard, the resources scarce, and the rules strict, but the people were safe under their mountain, and they were happy. Mostly. 

A stagnant populace for many years, comfortable in their lives or else making do, the seeds of destruction sow themselves suddenly and unexpectedly into the lives of the city's denizens. It isn't long before rumors spread of a communist infestation plaguing the city anew - the very force that drove them here in the first place, and one they will not bow to. As the fervor of the new red hunt grows, maintenance worker Emilia O'Hearne finds the normality of her life stripped away as her closest friend, Abigail Pilots, goes missing without a trace. 

The city around her being swept up in the new state of panic and rage, Emilia is forced to decide what she is willing to risk to find Abigail and prove her innocence, though the process will lead her down a path with many more questions, and no return. Enjoy the the first installment of The Anthill Trilogy: People of the Anthill! 

My senior year writing project, first written 2017-2018 and published in the summer after my first year in college (2019).

 In a 2014 Young Author's competition at her school, Maddy M. Dunsmore submitted her first book, a 121 page novella she hadn't imagined at the time that anyone would ever see. Five years of novels and now foraying into the realm of self-publishing, the book that started it all finally finds its place in the spotlight: Athena's Untold Story, the story and writing entirely authentic to the original novella written in 8th grade. 

The titlepage and size is new, but upon the insistence of those that read and enjoyed the original, none of the writing itself has changed: In the dark of the night, a young dog flees her home, kicking off the events that would come to change her life forever. The book follows young German Shepherd Athena in her journey, a first person retelling of a once missing year of her life. Her escape leads her to a new city with familiar dangers, to a pack of street dogs housed in an abandoned building she will come to know in her time there. 

Plagued just as she was by junkyard dogs, her story with the pack is one of adventure and plight, filled with tales of war and sickness, junkyard dogs, regrets, and the consequences of her own mistakes. Join her as she recounts her tale: Athena's Untold Story!