Amy has always loved science fiction—books, movies, shows, and games. She was born in San Diego, California, and moved with her family to Vancouver, Washington, at the age of seven. After devouring some of the classics like Dune and Ender's Game in her tween years, she began writing science fiction and fantasy short stories.
In the ensuing years, Amy attended the Vancouver School of Arts and Academics, where she continued to study creative writing, visual art and played viola in the school orchestra. During this time, she began the very early sketches of what would eventually evolve into the Cadicle series.
Amy received a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from Portland State University, and also pursued minors in Professional Writing and Business Administration. After graduating, she moved to Portland, Oregon, and began working in business development for an energy efficiency consulting firm. Over the next several years, she primarily wrote proposals to prospective utility clients and managed the proposal development process. She then transitioned from energy efficiency into the architectural, engineering and planning industry. However, she eventually succumbed to the writing bug.
Now a full-time author, Amy currently lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband. When she's not writing, she enjoys travel, wine tasting, binge-watching TV series, and playing epic strategy board games.
BIOGRAPHY
STARSHIP OF THE ANCIENTS
BOOK 3: REBEL WORLDS
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ABOUT THE BOOK
A daring heist. A ghost from the past. A revolution that could shatter an empire.
Evan and Anya have brokered an unlikely alliance among thieves. With their sights set on a hidden Syndicate base brimming with alien secrets, holding the team together long enough to claim the prize will be their greatest test yet.
Leading a crew of outcasts, Evan and Anya stage a high-stakes raid to seize tech that could turn the tide against Chancellor Rostov’s iron grip. However, when Conroy—long presumed dead—announces to the core worlds that he’s alive and declares Rostov a usurper, the Commonwealth erupts in chaos.
As dissidents rally, the crew faces a regime desperate to crush them. But when they find a critical lead about the Korani’s trail across the stars, they’ll stop at nothing to get answers.
With Rostov’s forces closing in, can Evan and Anya wield their growing power to spark a rebellion—or will it consume them?
PLOT SYNOPSIS - Rebel Worlds (Starship of the Ancients Book 3)
In the week since Evan and Anya returned to Aethos on the Asamar with Zaris’ fleet of corsairs, the tentative alliance with Conroy is being tested. Roman is being held captive while tight resources are creating tension between Conroy’s team and Zaris’ corsairs.
While breaking up a fight, Evan discovers new telepathic control abilities related to the Korani nanites and being ‘Touched’ by the primal energies. To learn more about these new abilities, Evan tries to interface with the Korani presence merged with Aethos’ environment and discovers that there are energy wells around Aethos.
Anya’s subsequent scientific investigation into the alien tech provides chilling revelations. Evan’s cellular structure has undergone a transformation from nanite integration, making him distinctly different from other humans at the cellular level. Evan and Anya realize the sheer scale of power available on worlds saturated with these primal energies, such as Aethos, Temple World, and Pavia.
While Anya continues her research with a new assistant, Garet—a comms expert from one of the ship’s in Zaris’ fleet—Evan and Zaris go for a supply pick-up arranged by Conroy, via one of his high-level contacts on Terrax, Tobin Mori. However, Tobin was unable to deploy fake credentials for the two of them—now fugitives in the Commonwealth’s eyes—which results in a shootout and failed retrieval. Zaris then uses her personal contacts on Markeesh to arrange a deal with mercenary Vinny, getting the supplies they need in exchange for furnishing Vinny with weapons to become a private fighting force for Conroy.
Returning to Aethos with the supplies, Evan resumes his interrogation of Roman. The disgraced Syndicate member realizes that his siblings will never let him back in, so Roman decides to give the location of the Syndicate’s supply of the alien tech primer, known as ‘Lux’, with the hope of getting a dose for himself so he can feel whole again. Though only playing along at first, Roman begins to realize that shifting his allegiance is his best chance for a future.
Evan and the larger team plan a heist of the Syndicate’s secret Rilen base to get the Lux. As they work their way through the facility, they get into a firefight and the team becomes separated. Anya, trapped and facing imminent suffocation, injects herself with a full vial of Lux. The overdose triggers a biological shock, but she successfully commands the nanites in the vault, breaking free and securing dozens of vials.
However, the opposition is also in an active quest to increase their power. Marta Santano successfully replicates fragments of the Asamar’s jump drive nanites, confirming that she now possesses the means to outfit Syndicate ships with jump capability.
On Terrax, Tobin’s cover is blown, forcing him to flee. With Evan’s assistance, he successfully escapes to Aethos along with the final evidence Conroy needs to mount his offensive against Chancellor Rostov.
As his allegiances continue to shift away from his brother and the Syndicate, Roman reveals that higher doses of Lux grant a limited form of telepathic influence, allowing users to influence others, a power utilized by senior Syndicate members like Marcus and Marta. He confirms that his cousin, Elena Cordova, who works for NovaTech, has been using Lux to manipulate Anya’s father, Julian Rojas. Julian’s unusual behavior during calls with Anya is explained by the fact that Elena was directing those conversations off-camera. Roman receives his promised primer dose of Lux, reaffirming his shift in allegiance.
Conroy begins his public campaign by launching a broadcast exposing Rostov’s treason. Rostov immediately retaliates by framing Conroy for a catastrophic attack on the Markeesh spaceport. Using the replicated jump drive and spoofed credentials making it appear to be Conroy’s ship, Marta stages a devastating attack on Markeesh.
In response, Evan convinces Conroy to make a high-profile public appearance at the attack site on Markeesh’s Tech moon. During Conroy’s speech, Evan directs the Korani nanites to rebuild the destroyed port structure live on broadcast. This dramatic demonstration of power is meant to both refute the attack and reveal the existence of alien technology to the Commonwealth, stripping Rostov of the leverage gained by keeping the alien tech secret.
However, Marta seizes the opportunity of Conroy making a rare public appearance to attempt an assassination strike. She fires a missile at Conroy, but Evan uses his nanite abilities to deflect the attack. Marta manages to jump away, where Evan and Anya pursue her to the Syndicate’s main base on Constella. In a swift but decisive battle, Evan kills Marta with a nanite attack while Marcus unsuccessfully tries to apprehend the Asamar.
A final breakthrough in Anya’s research, based on probes they launched, reveals that a signal emanating from Terrax, the Commonwealth capital, is identical to those found on destroyed Korani worlds. Terrax might be next for destruction.