Lucid Solution

Part of the The Designed series:

Editions:ebook, Hardcover, Paperback

Lucid has hit the streets. It's a new drug that allows its user the ability to sense and control other people's bodies... and things are about to get ugly.

After traveling the world with the genetically-engineered members of The Designed, Raleigh returns home to the United States having found both her confidence and her ability to induce Lucid in others. A war is brewing, and with Designed on both sides, neither has the advantage. Out of options and in desperate need of allies, Raleigh and her friends are forced to side with Grant and Able, the pharmaceutical company responsible for creating The Designed in the first place. It's an uneasy alliance, complicated further by her reluctance to accept the corporate giant's vision for Lucid. Does this dangerous substance really have a place in the world? Do The Designed? Does she?

With the final showdown looming, Raleigh must put these thoughts aside as she struggles to come to terms with her own growing powers and the very real possibility that she'll have to kill Sigma, the leader of the opposition. Is willing to compromise her morals in order to win the day and save her friends and family? Or will she falter when the decisive moment arrives?

Published: August 30, 2022

Publisher: Mad Cat

Genres:

Science Fiction, Thriller, YA

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About the Author

Kate Tailor

According to Kate Tailor, "My first job was building planes, my second working with worms, my third, snug behind the pharmacy counter." Now she spends her time at a messy writing desk with two sleeping cats and dozens of stories scrawled across scrap paper. She has been writing stories in her head (and sometimes murmuring them under my breath) since she was five. Over the last few years she committed them to paper. She writes the stories that she wanted to read, but never found. If you’re looking for something interesting, she hopes you’ve found it here. Besides writing, Kate loves her husband, kids, and cats (less so on writing days). She also loves the mountains, rain, cappuccino, worms, board games (not monopoly), and friends. To learn more about Kate (and her writing because let’s face it you probably don’t care about the worms) visit her website at katetailor.com.

Other Books By Kate Tailor

Series: The Designed

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In a world run by machines, one boy must prove the heart still matters.
Sixteen-year-old Bobby is the last human on a planet full of robots. His only shot at survival—and maybe restarting the entire human race—is to pass the Programming: brutal training designed to erase emotion and turn him into a flawless, logic-driven mind.
Fail, and his consciousness is uploaded into the Tether: a robotic shell with no feelings, no free will, and zero future for humanity.
The bots say this is the way forward. That emotion is a bug, not a feature. That humans weren’t worth saving in the first place.
At first, Bobby’s not sure they’re wrong.
Then Jen crash-lands on the planet. She’s unpredictable. Loud. Very human. And she makes Bobby start to feel—really feel—for the first time in forever.
Now Bobby has a choice: conform, upload, and lose what little humanity he has left…
Or risk everything to prove the bots wrong—even if it means failing the test, breaking the rules, and learning to care in a world built not to.
Bobby Robot is a high-stakes, heartfelt sci-fi adventure about identity, emotion, and the glitchy, chaotic brilliance of being human.

Where the Crows Fly

In Breyer, Texas, a murder of crows circles overhead the morning Big Andy Connor is found facedown in the mud behind his saloon.
The Crow Fly wasn’t just a brothel. To the women who live and work there, it’s shelter. Hard-won. Held together by grit and necessity, for better or worse. With Big Andy gone and the law circling just as surely as the crows, they can’t wait for protection or permission. They take the reins. Old Peg, Kate Dawson, Molly Brewster, and Cocheta band together to keep the brothel running—because when the world turns its back, women turn to each other. Emily Augusta, the local dressmaker who found Andy’s body, steps in to manage the books.
But in Breyer, the past never stays buried.
As Sheriff Jed Thornton hunts for a killer, old grudges surface, a slick stranger starts buying up the town, and the women of The Crow Fly learn that justice—like grief—isn’t always clean. Sometimes it’s quiet. Sometimes it’s cold. And sometimes, it flies on black wings.
Where the Crows Fly is a haunting Western mystery from Will Rogers Medallion–winning author Sharon Frame Gay—a story of survival, sisterhood, and the thin line between guilt and grace in a town too good at keeping its secrets.

Powder River Range

Justice rides a hard trail. Love rides even harder.
Great Western Detective League operative Beau Longstreet rides into Cheyenne to crack a suspected bank fraud case—but justice has a way of leading him down darker trails. Rumors swirl of a bloody range war brewing in Johnson County, where ruthless cattle barons are set to drive small-time ranchers and homesteaders from the land.
Longstreet has sworn off distractions, but when word reaches him that Maddie O’Rourke has vanished into the heart of the conflict, duty and heart collide. Once the woman he hoped to marry, Maddie refused him for fear of the dangers he faced. Now, she’s bought herself a slice of trouble in Buffalo, a town teetering on the edge of war. When she sends for Beau, desperation is written between the lines.
Joined by his sharp-shooting, smooth-talking partner Briscoe Cane, Longstreet steps into a maelstrom of vigilante justice, ruthless killings, and backroom deals where the law holds no sway. As the fight for Johnson County erupts into open warfare, old wounds between Maddie and Beau burn anew. But with deadly enemies on all sides and time running out, they’ll have to decide if love is worth the risk—or if some wars can’t be won.

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