The Organ Harvesters

Winner! The 2014 Stellar Sci-fi Contest For Science Fiction Dystopian Novel.The war of 2020 was quite bloodless, but its aftermath was plenty grisly. The victor? A monster corporation now wasting the planet's resources with abandon -- but controlling the people with precision. Using industrial-scale organ harvesting. Using wholesale euthanasia. Using squadrons of armed guards whose bulletproof visors hide any expression in their eyes.We're trapped, Zoe thought. Trapped on a dying planet. Wasn't there a time when we didn't live under massive domes with scrubbed air piped in and rising temperatures neutralized? That time is a blurry memory to me, almost gone. Gone, like the glaciers. Like the forests and their oxygen-breathing trees.And now a deadly virus is spreading fast. Zoe's beloved husband has already been carried off by it. At that, the corporation forced their young daughter Laya into an orphanage. The corporation is intent on eradicating the virus by liquidating everyone infected. Now Zoe herself has fallen ill. More than half of her dwindling energy is spent trying to hide that fact.She remembered her promise to Laya, to be together again. She rested her forehead against the mirror and whispered to her ghostly fading self -- hissed to herself, fierce in refusal! "You can't die now. You just can't!"In this heartless echnocratic dystopian future, normal emotions constitute treason. Acting on them is a capital crime. Can a mother's passion defy this totalitarian system? Will a promised cure arrive in time to save Zoe -- and can she get her hands on it? And if she regains her health, is there a chance she can ever find freedom...and even new love?The Organ Harvesters reveals a future that will make your skin crawl -- and a human struggle to live free that will leave you breathless and inspired.