I woke up in a room, and everything in the world changed. This is part 1 of a book about hardship, friendship, survival, and, of course, aliens. Part 1 only contains hardship. Note: will publish as a weekly serial, part 1 has four chapters, part 2 has five, part 3....still fleshing out the story (ie, while written, still doing extensive edits and rewrites).
A volume in the Earthbound Series Volume V of the Earthbound Series: By a few hundred years after the founding of Nykkyo's homeworld Florans had returned to space to colonize other worlds. One such colony was Varada, which eventually left the hegemony but now desires re-unification. With his talent with languages, Nyk accompanies a delegation to Varada, to serve as interpreter. There, he learns a terrible secret about Varadan society, and he uncovers a sinister motive behind a Floran faction's interest in the forsaken world.
Lise is a young female Novo Homonid or Novonid, an artificial humanoid species created on Planet Varada for slave labor. Novonids have green, chlorophyll-rich skin to derive nourishment from sunshine which makes them perfect fieldworker slaves. As the Novonid population increases, the Varadans are finding Novonids useful for low- and no-wage urban labor. Lise comes of age while living in the Green Zone, a Novonid ghetto, as tensions between Humans and Novonids threaten to become violent.
A volume in the Earthbound Series Volume IV of the Earthbound Series: Nykkyo, now a widower living with Suki's mom and her son, carries an incredible secret about her death. As New York recovers from the 9/11 attack, there is an outbreak of a fatal virus on Earth and one of his Floran co-workers dies. Nyk thinks the virus is of alien origin -- a biological weapon created by a faction on a rogue colony. He teams up with his ex-wife in a race against time to develop a cure before the separatists can unleash their plague.