Books in Climatic Climacteric series

***A bestselling, award-winning series***Fire is spreading. Who will bask? Who will burn?A handicap is only one if you let it be. In the case of Henley Bickford, it was a tool manipulated to improve upon herself. Until recently she was a hard-working grant-awardee student at a prestigious school generating technology to handle the changing climate. That is until she learned the clause in her contract meant literal termination upon completion... Now, Henley’s on the run to escape her termination and warn her sister before she follows in Henley’s footsteps. When you knowingly step into the enemy’s clutches to learn at their very hands, having an escape plan is essential. But when nerdy Buster Acton finally looks up from his research to dart out the door, his conscience recognizes a girl he can't leave behind; she could be an asset...With the girl, and the two he intended to break out, Buster—whose real name is Ace—has to modify his mission to protect the nation from traveling solo to being part of a team. Outrunning the brightest minds in the country isn’t easy. The only way to reach their families across the country with their warnings in tow is to expose their secrets and learn to hold hands, intertwining android and flesh fingers...Before their own creations catch them.***This is an upper YA/NA with some sexual references and swearing***

In the arid wasteland of distrust, only the strong survive.After a genetic trade, Valerie Acton is able to convince even her own brother that she is actually superhuman creator Jennifer Tate. Having achieved her goal, she can head back to her role as Natural Disaster Management Director, unless the man who dated the real Jennifer Tate blows her cover.

As the fire of war spreads, some want to watch the world burn. Henley Bickford earned a scholarship to a prestigious school after building her own bionic hand. Consumed by the fire to save people with her inventions, she worked in the bioengineering sector of a high-tech lab. All that changed the day she learned the "termination" clause in her contract is a literal one; When Henley's robotics project is complete, she'll be put to death to prevent secrets from leaving the institution's walls. Burned by the betrayal, her only option is to run... An ally on the outside warned Buster Acton it was time to put his research at the university aside and get out with a genetic mutant and her handler in tow. But it's not in his nature to leave others behind. After all, they could be an asset in a successful escape. With enemies blazing in from all sides, he must embrace being the leader to his newfound team of stragglers if they hold any hope of saving countless lives. Outrunning the brightest minds in the country won't be easy. Fortunately, they have each other. Can the growing band of misfits work together to warn the world of the billowing clouds of death closing in? Or will they be silenced by their own inventions?***This is book 2 in the internationally bestselling, award-winning eco-fiction dystopian trilogy, called "refreshing" and "unique", an upper YA/NA with some sexual references and swearing***