Books with author Mackenzie Morris

Seventeen-year-old Jack Carter's life is full of friends, school, and drama club until one night when strangers in purple suits show up at his opening night play with guns. His teacher tells him to run home and check on his life-long friend, Ellie, who didn't show up for the performance. When he arrives at her apartment, everything is in shambles and Ellie and her father are missing. Jack finds blood, a file with information about Ellie, and a strange silver disk that places an hourglass tattoo on his arm. When more people die around him, Jack has to go on the run before the police pin the murders on him. Once he reaches his teacher's office, he discovers what the mark means and what he was destined to be. With his newly-awakened time travel ability, Jack must warp through time and space to fight against a secret world of cultists, spies, and corrupt governments with his faithful best friend, Niki, to find the love of his life before it's too late.

He didn't ask to leave Earth for the magical world of Terah.He didn't ask to become a sorcerer.And he certainly didn't ask to become a target.But that's what happened.Since the beginning of time, two sister worlds, Earth and Terah, have coexisted in different planes, surrounded by an immense field of energy. Long ago, magical and non-magical creatures lived together in harmony on both worlds, but as life on Earth evolved in the direction of science and technology, the use of magic deteriorated and soon magical creatures and sorcerers became the subject of myths and legends.Meanwhile magic flourished on Terah, and as sorcerers became more powerful, they became more influential, and soon they were the heads of government. The Council of Sorcerers became the ruling body, with the chairman, the Master Sorcerer, the highest position on Terah, a position that comes with tremendous responsibility and formidable enemies.When Master Sorcerer Badec realizes that his unborn son, Myron, will be his one and only heir, he protects the child by arranging for him to grow up on Earth. Myron is scheduled to be returned to Terah on his twenty-fifth birthday, at which time he’ll learn who he is and begin to study magic as well as everything else he’ll need to know in order to assume his role as Terah's next Master Sorcerer.For twenty-three years, things go as planned, and Myron goes about his life as Kevin, a typical nerd, who is more comfortable with computers than with people. Then Badec becomes quite ill and the decision is made to bring his son home early. One morning Kevin is an accountant living and working in Omaha, and the next he is in the middle of a field with six complete strangers, surrounded by huge stones and a forest. Before the day is out, Kevin learns that he is actually a sorcerer named Myron and that he’s next in line for the Master’s Chair. While he’s still reeling from that bit of information, he finds out that due to his father’s illness, he has a little less than one year to learn enough about sorcery to be able to defend his life and chair against sorcerers who have been practicing their craft longer than he’s been alive. Welcome to Terah.The Chronicles of Terah SeriesBook 1: The Master's ChairBook 2: The Dragon's FlameBook 3: The Fourteenth KeyBook 4: The Warrior ElfBook 5: The Rambling SpyAuthor's Note: It is highly recommended that this series be read in order.

Rav Tillman must escape the underground city of Odyssia after his only son is abducted by the corrupt military for experimentation. Taken away across the remaining five galaxies under human control, the boy could be nearly anywhere in the universe. With the alien empire of Azimandia at war with humanity and more alien races making contact, the boy is swept up in a political maze of slavery, technology, and war.With an Australian half alien engineer, the daughter of the president of Odyssia, a talented scientist, two Azimandian mercenaries, a teenage priest in an exosuit, and an ancient Biromian alien at his side, Rav Tillman sets out to scour the universe for his son. Nemo is out there somewhere. He knows it. And he will stop at nothing to have his young son back in his arms once more.

On the distant planet of Virdu, child slaves are brought to work and live on their own in the desert while their owners are away. Two of those children, a seventeen-year-old boy named Nemo whose memory has been damaged and a young blue-skinned alien named Baban, live in a cave and scrape together whatever they can to stay alive in the harsh conditions. The friends keep each other going until their world is turned upside-down.A group of prisoners from the expansive empire of Elysia are transferred there to work in the quarries. Nemo goes out one evening to watch them marching across the sand. They are beaten down, weary, and in chains. That is when one of the men stops, looks at him with wide eyes, and cries out his name. Nemo runs back home, but the face of the red-haired man will not leave his mind. With Baban's help, he makes it his mission to discover the secret of the red-haired prisoner.But his quest leads him far from the slave planet and into a world of political upheaval and mystery. Will Nemo's memories of his forgotten past return to him? Could the red-haired prisoner be a link to the childhood that had been wiped from his memory? Or will the stranger rip apart the last bits of hope the two boys held dear?

The mark defines you. The mark gives you purpose. Without the mark, you are worthless.Deep below the war-torn surface, the city of Odyssia is alive and bustling with technology, glittering neon lights, and robots for menial tasks. A life in the Upper City is one of excess, artificiality, and material goods. But below the security checkpoints and the sea of enticing wealth, those deemed unworthy or undesirable by the ruling families are exiled to the rundown Under City where they are left to fend for themselves. Here, the dissenters, the criminals, and the poor are forced to live with meager wages, starvation, and no hope of ever rising above it. Bound to their jobs by their marks, they are little more than slaves to an uncaring government. In the Under City, technology is banned and its possession is punishable by death.Rav Tillman, an Under City computer engineer for CyrinoTech, must do all he can to keep his robot son, Nemo, safe from the Tech Police who would confiscate him and destroy him. When his technology is discovered in his home one night, his world is turned upside-down. With his only son stolen away from him and shipped off to one of eight colonies across the distant galaxies, Rav must band together with his friends to hunt down his son before it is too late.

The inter-galactic war between humanity and the alien races reaches a boiling point as Vance takes his place on the throne of Azimandia. Slayven struggles to survive as a slave to a warbringer while attempting to undermine the corrupt government that has taken his friends prisoner.The Red Sand Rebels unite under a new leader, Benjamin Trainor, Vance's husband from AX-97. Siding against the prince of Azimandia, even a marriage cannot withstand the politics and danger.When Vance turns his back on Rav and the Red Sand Rebels to enact his own plans of dominating the known universe, the duo of Rav and Vance becomes split on opposite sides of the war. The two life-long friends must part ways or fight to the death.With Nemo back in his care, Rav becomes a father once again, dedicating his time to providing for the son he searched so hard for across the galaxies. Facing a financial crisis, Nemo's talents as an artist provide for them until Rav is conscripted into the Elysian Flight Force as a fighter pilot. Ripped away from his son once again, he faces the uncertain future that unfolds around him on the front lines.Corruption in Elysia grows until children are being taken from their homes and are forced to fight against seasoned warriors, decimating the human population.Will Rav be able to end the war and fix what little of his family he has left? Or will the mysterious Olonictic race claim Nemo as their own and change him into a weapon?The war is ending, but who will be left alive to tell their stories?

One android boy against the forces of evil in a volatile, alien-filled universe.Set after the events of The Genesis Sequence, Reboot follows the story of Rav's son, Nemo, who has found himself a slave on the child slave planet of Virdu. At age 17, Nemo's memories of who he was before the reboot remain closed off from his computer mind. With his Biromian friend, Baban Zimnark, the young artist works to earn food and necessities on a forbidding desert planet.The friends keep each other going until their world is turned upside-down.A group of prisoners from the expansive empire of Elysia are transferred there to work in the quarries. Nemo goes out one evening to watch them marching across the sand. They are beaten down, weary, and in chains. That is when one of the men stops, looks at him with wide eyes, and cries out his name. Nemo runs back home, but the face of the red-haired man will not leave his mind. With Baban's help, he makes it his mission to discover the secret of the red-haired prisoner.But his quest leads him far from the slave planet and into a world of political upheaval and mystery. Will Nemo's memories of his forgotten past return to him? Could the red-haired prisoner be a link to the childhood that had been wiped from his memory? Or will the stranger rip apart the last bits of hope the two boys held dear?With war on the horizon and a hive of alien insects set on devouring the universe awakening, the power locked away in Nemo's brain may be the one thing to save humanity.

A young prince who speaks with ghosts. An angel hiding from Heaven. A half angel outcast. A tiny paladin with a dangerous secret. An exotic druid who turns into a raven. Unlikely heroes in a world rebuilding after the War for Heaven ended with Saint's Fall, where Saint Jaylen sacrificed himself to save all of Aldexa from the powerful demon that had possessed him.There is peace again, but darkness is not far off. Fifteen years after that tragic event, the angels are repopulating Heaven, dragons rule Wolfekin, and deadly vampires lurk in the shadows.Orphans are being abducted from the streets and enslaved in blood parlors where they are drained of blood for their vampire clients.Paladins are falling victim to corrupted churches after being forced to fight as young boys to compete for angels to make them paladins. The failures are mutilated and exiled into the wilderness.Although the sun is back in the sky, the sun goddess, Sola, has gone back into hiding . . . leaving Heaven and the human world to fend for themselves. Can humans and angels work together to fight back the encroaching darkness?

Hiding behind their permanent masquerade masks, the last known remnants of the human race live on a gigantic luxury cruise ship with everything they have ever wanted or needed. The only catch? Anyone caught not paying their debts or trying to remove their masks is taken away in the middle of the night and never heard from again.After her parents are taken from their cabin one night, sixteen-year-old Anne finds herself alone among the mysterious covered faces who know what her parents left her. An insurmountable debt that must be paid immediately or the Officers will begin hunting for her.Running through the ship to avoid the dark Officers, the all-powerful Captain, and other bloodthirsty citizens that have become monsters through infection and experimentation, Anne must find a way to escape . . . or take the chance of removing her mask that she has worn her entire life and finding out the dark truth about the ship.She only has three days.

Jaylen Corrifus is a paladin who is tasked with hunting down all kinds of otherworldly beings including elves, werewolves, vampires, and undead. With his bonded angel, Zeriel, at his side, he must serve the Kingdom of Vilyron until he must be sacrificed along with the other paladins in order to bring back the sun that has vanished from the sky. Will he be able to hold onto his light magic, or will the powers of darkness corrupt his divine soul?

The Paladin Purge has begun with the Wolfekin Inquisition slaughtering and burning members of the clergy. Now they hunt for Jaylen. One year after leaving the magical southern continent of Ka'tayl, Jaylen has found himself a new life far from the pure life he had been living before. Not long after returning to the Northern Continent, Jaylen made up his mind and ran away. He left his friends and everyone else behind. As a slave on a pirate ship, he must find his true purpose in life, even if that means abandoning the teachings of Sola and becoming one of the hunted and damned apostates. Will Jaylen's paladin training keep him pure? Or will he give in to the darkness and the temptations of his new life at sea?

Seventeen-year-old Jack Carter's life is full of friends, school, and drama club until one night when strangers in purple suits show up at his opening night play with guns. His teacher tells him to run home and check on his life-long friend, Ellie, who didn't show up for the performance. When he arrives at her apartment, everything is in shambles and Ellie and her father are missing. Jack finds blood, a file with information about Ellie, and a strange silver disk that places an hourglass tattoo on his arm. When more people die around him, Jack has to go on the run before the police pin the murders on him. Once he reaches his teacher's office, he discovers what the mark means and what he was destined to be. With his newly-awakened time travel ability, Jack must warp through time and space to fight against a secret world of cultists, spies, and corrupt governments with his faithful best friend, Niki, to find the love of his life before it's too late.