Natalie's books
The Unity Experiment
When seventeen-year-old Anna is thrown into the Unity Experiment—an ongoing team building exercise to promote unity between warring species—she begins to unwittingly retrace the fatal steps her father took a decade ago. But she quickly discovers she is the only one within the experiment able to communicate with the spirit world.
This revelation ignites her curiosity and her focus shifts from surviving the experiment to finding out the truth behind her father’s death. But this power comes at a cost, and she becomes the prime target of the other teams who covet this link wanting answers from their dead.
If Anna can master this unusual skill, she’ll be able to bring together species who currently have nothing but contempt for each other. Of course, she’ll have to avoid being killed by everything and everyone around her. If she can’t, she’ll never have the chance to unveil the secrets the human government never wanted unearthed in the first place. Too bad they didn’t count on a 17-year-old who can hear the dead to shake things up.
The Palindrome
Genre: New Adult Epic Fantasy
Nineteen-year-old Mynah knows all about the Palindrome. She’s seen its euphoric highs of power wither into the self-destructive pit of despair. It destroyed her mother; it destroyed her life, and she won’t let it sink its claws into her too.
Forced to seek safe haven in the castle where magic seeks its own hosts, her plan is to pretend to compete whilst avoiding the Palindrome at all costs. But it knows she’s there. It toys with her, manipulating her feelings, haunting her dreams.
The first nomad in decades to enter, she feels the scorn of her fellow recruits as her mother’s sordid past is dredged up and dumped on her shoulders, whilst the working-class kingdom eagerly watches her progress, hoping she paves the way for those not of noble birth to have a chance of bonding and claiming the magic.
Despite all these pressures, Mynah thinks she’s strong enough to resist the lure of magic until the Prince of Alba enters her life. If she falls for him then they will be bound together. She’s seen it happen time and time again. If the Palindrome starts, there’s only ever one outcome. It starts as it ends.
The Commune
Twenty-five-year-old Nila Palin is a natural polyglot.
She possesses the ability to speak every language she is exposed to. After being taken from her parents and locked up like a prized possession by the Echelon, the remaining section of human government, she is finally given a glimpse of freedom when she is sent to negotiate with the AX in The Commune. If she succeeds, she will be released from their captivity.
The AX hold the formula for salvation, they can prevent the ecological collapse of the world, but they too are desperate. Trapped within their subterranean tunnels they are cut off from the resource they need the most to survive—humans.
On the brink of extinction, Nila is the last hope for both races. As she learns secrets from both sides and develops a close bond with one of the AX, she must choose where her loyalties lie. Never expecting to be given, or to want, a second chance at love, she’s forced to put aside her growing feelings and decide which species, if any, deserves to be saved.