Sins of Our Ancestors

When life makes you into the hero you never wanted to be. . . Now that the cure has been found and distributed, Ruby's ready to move ahead with the life she always wanted: small town, cute house, quiet job, with her boyfriend Sam by her side, of course. All she needs to do is foist the responsibility of ruling World Peace Now off onto her half-brother, Adam. Surely he'll rise to the task of caring for the people with whom he grew up. Sometimes that cape really starts to chafe. But Ruby's brother doesn't want to rule any more than she does, and the people of World Peace Now aren't too keen on being fobbed off. Ruby could just walk away, and a year ago, she would have. But now that she's grown an iron backbone, how can she leave the problems of the world to run and hide? When dangers begin to multiply, and Sam's clearly miserable dealing with them all, Ruby realizes she has a bigger decision to make. How many times is she really obligated to save the world. . .and what price is she willing to pay in order to do it?

For fans of the Sins of Our Ancestors Series, comes a novella about beloved side characters, Rhonda and Adam. Some love stories demand to be TOLD. Adam grew up without much family until he met Ruby. Once he found his sister, he never deviated from his support. Thick and thin, dark and light, he stayed true. But now that the world is saved, he's lacking in purpose. Rhonda's always known that her task, as an older sister, was to protect her siblings. She trained hard so she'd be ready to do whatever it took to keep them safe. But now that the worst is past, now that the major threats have all been eliminated, Rhonda's frustrated. What's she supposed to do now? After the world has been saved... Sometimes we survive the worst, only to realize we don't know how to live during peace. Can these two find their place in the world now that they've rounded the bend?

If one touch can infect. . . All Ruby Behl wants for her seventeenth birthday is a good career path match, and to kiss her best friend and long time crush, Wesley Fairchild. Unfortunately, the simplicity of teenage wishes evaporated a decade ago when the Tercera virus nearly wiped out the human race. Transmitted through touch, the slightest contact is prohibited in the safe haven community of Port Gibson. then a kiss is deadly. . . An innocent game of Spin the Bottle, a rite of passage for Port Gibson's teens, provides the opportunity Ruby's been waiting for, but when Wesley winds up Marked, Ruby realizes her first kiss may also be her last. Ruby races the viral clock to uncover long buried secrets about her dead parents, and her once cloudy future becomes clear. She's the key to finding the cure, but is she willing to pay the price? KIRKUS REVIEW A teenager attempts to find a cure for a deadly, civilization-threatening virus in debut author Baker's dystopian YA series starter. Overall, Baker's prose is sharp and vivid, and she manages to immediately plunge her readers into the world of the novel. The story is swiftly paced and features some surprising twists and intriguing characters. The plot doesn't challenge the strict boundaries of the dystopian genre, but its combination of sci-fi, mystery, and teen romance still makes for a compelling adventure. A promising YA debut about a girl's search for a future in the wreckage of the past.

No matter what happens…the end is near. Seventeen year old Ruby Behl never expected to be thrust into a position of power. But so much has changed in the past few months, she's prepared to accept the responsibility. Her best friend Wesley was Marked with the Tercera virus. Her boyfriend Sam was shot to death. She found her father's journal with the key to a cure. But the leaders of the port cities have assembled with a threat of their own: to Cleanse the world of the remaining Marked. When a vicious attack accelerates the virus, Ruby and her friends have less than a week to find the cure, prevent the Cleanse, and rescue her aunt from execution. Ruby is convinced her father's old partner stole the antidote, but she has no clue to his identity. Torn between saving her family or hundreds of thousands of Marked, she must figure out who he is and find him before time runs out-for everyone.