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Caged
Science Fiction & Fantasy
A dystopian regime built on scientific deception. One student who uncovered the truth. And four protagonists from four different worlds fighting to bring her home.
YA dystopian thriller for fans of The Hunger Games, Divergent, Legend, and Scythe.
Selected for the FRA's elite physics training program, Rose was supposed to be one of the lucky ones. But the deeper she studies, the more the program's polished surface begins to crack. The science doesn't add up. The rules don't make sense. When she digs too deep, she finds a truth so explosive it could bring the entire regime to its knees — and makes herself a target that Dr. Weber, Queenstown's dean of college, cannot afford to ignore.
Dr. Weber's orders are swift and brutal — silence Rose before she reaches anyone who will listen. Taken and caged, she discovers that the regime's cruelty has no floor, but neither does her courage. When Rose escapes and brings her secret to the Underground, she triggers something worse: her captors escalate, seize Queenstown's city council, and the fight becomes bigger than one girl's survival. Now Rose and her friends must rescue their city's leaders before the weapon she uncovered changes everything.
A gripping, fast-paced YA dystopian thriller with a fierce protagonist, a four-hero ensemble, real stakes, and a mid-series victory that leaves the larger fight very much alive.
If you love YA dystopian series with high-stakes action, found family, and a future that feels all too possible, continue the Divided Series with Caged today.
Caged features:
Four POV dystopian series
Fierce female protagonist
Government conspiracy and scientific deception
Capture and escape survival sequences
Survival trek through an abandoned city
Found family resistance movement
Corrupt regime and political takeover
Clean YA no spice
Hunger Games-level action and stakes
Heat: Clean — no explicit content
Series: Divided Series, Book 2 of 4 (Books 1 and 2 available now; Books 3 and 4 coming 2026)
POV: Four POVs — Rose, Marcos, Harriet, Jason
Length: 280 pages
Age range: 12 and up
Themes: Resistance, scientific deception, courage, found family, hope in dark times
Comps: The Hunger Games · Divergent · Legend · Scythe
Content notes: Minimal profanity · No graphic sexual content · Hunger Games-level violence
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Betrayed
Science Fiction & Fantasy
The Underground is shattered. A sono-nuclear weapon threatens every nation. The free world's last ally is a lie.
Harriet is a medic-turned-rebel courier from Obsidian, carrying ten years of grief and a dead cousin's name. She wants two things: backup for the Underground, and a world worth surviving. What she finds in the Independent Republic of Texas is neither.
In the aftermath of Supreme Commander Martin's aerial assault on Queenstown, two Underground teams split off in opposite directions to do the only thing left — convince the free world to go to war before Martin's sono-nuclear device destroys them all. Harriet's team crosses into Texas and walks straight into a trap: a coded message in a secret drawer, a suspiciously smooth border crossing, and a presidential secretary with no business being in a safe house.
One by one, the pieces fall into a picture so chilling that Harriet and her team may not live to warn anyone about it.
Publishers Weekly BookLife Reviews calls Betrayed "an emotional, action-packed adventure intertwining a compelling near-future America with a desperate fight for freedom."
Inside this YA dystopian:
- Slow-burn romance blooming in the wreckage
- A devastating family secret hidden for eighteen years
- A grief arc that breaks your heart before it rebuilds it
- A conspiracy that reaches from Martin's inner circle to the nation that was supposed to save them
- Four protagonists from four racial backgrounds, one fight
Heat: Closed door, kisses only.
Series: Book 3 of 4, The Divided Series (read in order).
POV: Multi-POV, third person.
Content notes: wartime violence, grief, loss of a family member, no sexual content beyond kissing, no profanity beyond invented expletives. Ages 12+. Ends on a secondary-character cliffhanger.
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Divided
Teens
A walled, racially segregated future America. Four territories. One ruthless Supreme Commander. And a rebellion no one saw coming.
Award-winning YA dystopian for fans of The Hunger Games, Divergent, and Legend.
The Federated Republic of America keeps order through walls. Four of them divide a broken nation into separate territories — Havana, Little Asia, Obsidian, and Ivory — each sealed by race, each watched by a Supreme Commander who intends to keep them that way forever.
Eighteen-year-old Marcos has always wanted out of Havana and out of his controlling father's reach. When his father has him disappeared into a secret labor camp, that desire for escape becomes something he never expected: a reason to stay and fight.
Inside the camp, Marcos finds the Underground — a rebellion built from all four territories. Marcos, Rose, Harriet, and Jason each come from a different world and carry years of reasons not to trust each other. But the resistance they are building only works if all of them show up.
The Supreme Commander does not lose quietly. And the price of what they are building together is higher than any of them expected.
Divided features:
- A post-apocalyptic, racially segregated future America
- Four interwoven POVs from Havana, Obsidian, Little Asia, and Ivory
- A secret rebellion and underground tunnels beneath a walled city
- Labor camps, propaganda, and a terrifyingly believable regime
- Found family, complex sibling and parent relationships
- High-stakes action with clean content — minimal profanity, no graphic sexual content
- A fast-paced, emotionally intense YA dystopian series opener — with four protagonists, real stakes, and no easy answers.
If you love YA dystopian series about rebellion, found family, and a future that feels all too possible, start Divided today.
Silver Medal — Moonbeam Children's Book Award, Young Adult eBook Fiction
First Place — Firebird Book Awards, Young Adult Fiction
Winner — Pencraft Book Award, Young Adult Fiction, Fall 2025
Heat: Clean — no explicit content
Series: Divided Series, Book 1 of 4 (Books 1 and 2 available now; Books 3 and 4 coming 2026)
POV: Four POVs — Marcos, Rose, Harriet, Jason
Age range: 12 and up
Themes: Racial reconciliation, found family, resistance, survival, hope in dark times
Comps: The Hunger Games · Divergent · Maze Runner · Legend · The Darkest Minds
Content notes: Minimal profanity · No graphic sexual content · Hunger Games-level violence
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Survival demands multiple heroes.
Win only appears in Divided, but I fell harder for her than most of my other characters! As an author I fall in love with all of my characters (except the villains - I want them to suffer), but Win is unique. She was sent to QT3 as a young teen, yet she never violated her own principles and put others first. It was no surprise to me when she insisted on storming the last barracks building, which held the women the guards had taken for themselves, with Marcos, Rose, and Jason. Win is a picture of self-sacrifice, honor, and determination. This series is built on characters like her.
Marcos Sees The World Clearly
In this scene Marcos Sanchez sees the world and his city Queenstown clearly for the first time ever. His older mentor, whom he calls "Abuela," had told him the nation hadn't always been divided by ethnicity and locked behind walls. She'd told him about the freedom the old USA had enjoyed, then squandered through racism and hatred. But Marcos hadn't believed her until he became the first citizen to escape the walls of Queenstown and see the devastated city beyond with his own eyes. This moment is about Marcos feeling the weight of his impulsive decision to leave the city, while also allowing Marcos to gain perspective of the world beyond Queentown's walls. That he retches shows the depth of Marcos's emotion at seeing the death and destruction the only national leader he's ever known was responsible for.
