Charlie McGee is a typical 8-year-old little girl in all respects. Except one. Thanks to a government experiment that altered her parents’ chromosomes, Charlie was born with pyrokinesis, the ability to set fires with her mind.
Frightened by their daughter’s destructive talent, Charlie’s parents teach her to abstain from using it. For several years, they successfully hide her special power. However, a secret government agency called The Shop discovers Charlie and wants to use her ability for their own ends.
After government agents murder Charlie’s mother, Charlie and her father Andy are forced to flee. With Shop operatives one step behind them, Andy now needs Charlie to employ the power he had adamantly taught her not to use. Yet even this extreme measure may not be enough to keep The Shop from capturing them.
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This short, fun story is set in the near future and focuses on Barbary, a 12-year-old orphan. Barbary cannot wait to leave Earth and travel to the space station Einstein. Once there, she will begin a new life with her deceased mother’s best friend Yoshi and his 12-year-old daughter Heather.
Barbary spent most of her life in foster care. She will miss nothing about Earth except for her cat Mickey. Pets are not allowed on the space station. However, Barbary can’t bear to leave Mickey behind to starve or die in an animal shelter. She devises a plan to smuggle him onto the station, in spite of her fears that she will lose her only chance for a new life if she is caught.
Once on board, her new sister Heather helps her hide Mickey. However, Barbary doubts she can keep a frisky cat hidden in an enclosed, strange environment indefinitely and wonders what she will do when he is discovered.
But as Barbary explores her new home and learns about life in space, she realizes that a stowaway cat is the least of anyone’s worries. An alien ship has been detected heading for Earth, and everyone’s life is about to change dramatically.
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Vonda N. McIntyre
I am a medical editor from Philadelphia. I graduated from Temple University with a bachelor of arts in journalism and used to freelance for several newspapers and magazines. I am beginning to write fiction in my spare time. Also, I am constructing a web page that focuses on writing HERE
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