Novel
Forbidden Cargo

Wanted dead or alive! The government calls them "a crime against humanity." The Order swears they are humanity's only future. But do they represent the next stage of human evolution?

Growing up on Mars hasn't been easy. But it is the only life Sashimu has ever known. Inside the safety of their Martian complex, Sashimu and her friends are looking forward to graduation. It is life as usual in 2110 - but it's a forbidden life!

To speed up human evolution, the Order has covertly engineered Sashimu and her friends as a new generation of humans with Nano-DNA and called them the Imagofas. When the government seeks proof of the Order's illegal activity, Sashimu and her best friend Thesni are kidnapped and brought back to Earth to stand before a tribunal as evidence of the Order's atrocities against humanity.

Once on Earth, things only get worse when Sashimu gets separated from Thesni and is forced to become a fugitive. All Sashimu needs to do is survive Earth long enough to find Thesni and return to Mars, but with different factions bent on her capture or death, it's not so easy. Desperate for help, she enlists a hard-core gamer known only as the Cadet and befriends the renegade artificial intelligence code-named Prometheus. Sashimu will do anything to escape Earth for Mars. She is, after all, wanted - DEAD OR ALIVE!

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