The Separation Trilogy Series

SHE WASN'T BORN TO REBEL. SHE WAS MADE TO DESTROY ANYONE WHO DID. They tell me that I can't feel. They're wrong. I'm learning. It started with a soldier who wasn't afraid of what they made me. Now I want him, and wanting anything for myself could get us both killed. I am a Creation. Genetically engineered, conditioned to suppress emotion, and trained to kill without question. My twin brother, Lukahn, and I exist for their war. We were built to heal each other by latching. Skin to skin, palm to palm. We can't survive without each other. Rank is how we both live. And if we're going to stay alive, we have to be the best. I've killed for them. I've put a bullet through a Creation who hesitated, and I didn't feel anything. That's what I was made for. The real test comes with Separation, when the government finally claims the lives it created. We are ready. We are not ready for Separation to come early. Or for the newcomer who ruptures my senses before I even learn his name. They drag us to a military base before we turn eighteen. Inside, every sign of weakness is watched. Outside, something is spreading. It doesn't move like anything human. It doesn't stop when it should. The vaccines meant to protect us from it might be the very thing that exposes what I am. Then I meet Marc. A soldier who doesn't look at me like a weapon waiting for orders, or like my brother's missing half. He touches me like he's not supposed to. A hand at my waist. A thumb against my chin. He looks at me like he can see the nightmares I don't want to have. He takes them away, the way Lukahn does. I shouldn't let him get this close. My brother would kill him if he knew. I tell myself I'll stay away. I run the drills. I take the rank. I don't look at him. I look at him. Near Marc, the silence I was trained to live inside begins to break. A pulse. A flaw. Curiosity. Attachment. Want. I look up "want" in the archive. The definition is wrong. None of the words for it are right. It isn't supposed to apply to me. That kind of deviation doesn't get you a trial. It gets you a muzzle to the skull and a trigger pull, and the compound moves on before the body's cold. I'm the one behind the barrel. Outside, the infection keeps spreading closer. Inside, our training intensifies, our orders change, and the truth behind why Separation came early may lie with the invaders. I should be preparing for war. Watching my brother's back. Keeping my hands off Marc. But Lukahn and I have spent our lives keeping each other alive, and I'm beginning to wonder if I'll be the reason he dies. I was built to destroy rebels. And now I'm becoming one. CREATED is Book One of the completed SEPARATION TRILOGY: dark YA dystopian sci-fi romance with engineered soldiers, forbidden attachment, and the alien truth behind the war they were created to fight.