Natalie's books
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 decide where her loyalties lie. Which, if any, species deserves to be saved.
Possessions
Genre: Gothic Romantic Fantasy
To save her beloved sister, Esmerelda Black is not going to sell her own soul to the Devil. She’s going to feed him the souls of others.
In Victorian London, Esmerelda is a medium with an ability beyond communication with the spirit world: she can possess living people and steal a piece of their souls. When her beloved sister Daisy commits suicide and is condemned to Purgatory, Esmerelda makes a deal with the Devil: in exchange for Daisy’s passage into Heaven, she must feed him seven pieces of living souls representing the Seven Deadly Sins.
Esmerelda’s success is hampered by Lady Grafton, the first payment of her debt from whom she took Sloth, unintentionally creating a driven, ruthless woman intent on revenge. With Lady Grafton on her tail, she is also being blackmailed by the leading political candidate, Dorian Rosewood, who steals her scrying board—her only method of communication with the Devil—forcing her to use her talents for his campaign.
As time runs out, Esmerelda races to complete her task and save her sister from damnation. But with a monster of her own making hunting her down, she must decide how far she is willing to go, leading to a deadly final showdown.
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.