Esther Vlessing

A devoted CPS worker and her family are taken hostage by two desperate parents searching for their wrongfully removed child, exposing a cover-up that threatens her career--and life.

Mel is a broke, fat, Black JFK airport employee who's never been in love and forgotten how to dream, until an accidental brush with death catapults her on a journey to finally take flight and start living by any means necessary.

In a futuristic society where instability reigns, one commodity remains accessible to all: technology. When synesthete Annika Drake loses her brilliant scientist father in a suspicious accident, it plunges her headfirst into a world of incomprehensible scientific hubris, destroyed lives, and a deadly race against the clock for the freedom of a people on the very brink of being enslaved by a new and dangerous technology.