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Multi-published and Amazon and ECPA Best-Selling author Cynthia Hickey, writing as Cynthia Melton, has sold close to a million copies of her works since 2013. She has taught a Continuing Education class at the 2015 American Christian Fiction Writers conference, several small ACFW chapters and RWA chapters, and small writer retreats. She and her husband run the small press, Winged Publications, which includes some of the CBA’s best well-known authors. She lives in Arizona and Arkansas, becoming a snowbird, with her husband and one dog. She has ten grandchildren who keep her busy and tell everyone they know that “Nana is a writer”. Follow her on Amazon here.
The city was built to keep them free.
The maze was built to keep them alive.
The last free city in North America is a fortress of stacked shipping containers—steel corridors, shifting paths, and secrets welded into its walls. No one leaves. No one survives alone.
When the city is breached for the first time in generations, teens aged sixteen to nineteen are forced into a hastily formed fighting unit. Trained to run the maze, wield blades, and kill without hesitation, they’re told one thing: the city must not fall.
But as battles escalate and bodies pile up, the truth begins to crack. The leaders have been lying. The maze is more than a shelter—it’s a weapon. And the enemy outside may not be the real threat.
When a forbidden connection sparks between opposing sides of the war, loyalty fractures. Survival demands choices no one should have to make. Protect the city—or expose the truth that could destroy it.
Because freedom has a price.
And this time, it may cost the last of humanity. AMAZON
A future determined by the spin of a wheel.
Monsters roam the desecrated city.
A girl chosen to change the course of the world.
On Crynn Dayholt’s eighteenth birthday, she spins the wheel. The needle lands on the only black square. For ten years or her death, whichever comes first, she is now the leader of a group of people called the Stalkers. People sent from the safety of Soriah to clear the city outside the wall of Malignants, a breed formed by earth’s desecration.
But Soriah holds a secret. One Crynn wants to expose.
Fawke Newton, the Stalkers’ best fighter is reluctant to go along with Crynn’s daring plan. He has two more years to serve before he can return to Soriah. Would he jeopardize everything for her?
The Stalkers fight not only Malignants as they travel a city still on fire, the air rank, the rain poison. All their lives will be forfeit if Crynn’s plan fails.
Is she up to the task?
Hunger Games Meets I Am Legend AMAZON
Crynn Dayholt never expected her life to take a turn for the extraordinary.
When she is thrust into a role of leading a group of rebels against the oppressive city of Soriah, she must take up the impossible task of finding a hidden armory and building an army strong enough to take on an endless swarm of soldiers.
With her people’s faith in her and a rebellion that leads her to discover the truth of Soriah’s secrets, Crynn must face an act of war that could determine the fate of many.
As the battle between good and evil rages on, Crynn must face the true monsters of mankind and decide how many of her people will die in her quest for freedom.
How will Crynn find the strength to overcome the odds and turn the tides of war?
Don’t miss your chance to join Crynn on her quest for freedom. Buy now before the price changes! AMAZON
Crynn Dayholt is a brave fighter on a mission to save her world from the relentless grip of the mighty city of Soriah.
Armed with an underground compound as a safe haven, Crynn and her team of rebels hunt for other soldiers to join their cause. But their search is hindered when Crynn discovers the journals of the man who built the compound, a man more sinister than the President of Soriah himself.
With secrets to the earth’s destruction in his hands, Crynn must put her thirst for revenge aside and fight for the future of mankind.
Will Crynn be able to right the wrong of evil and save her world or will her mission be the downfall of them all?
If you enjoyed the action and suspense of The Hunger Games, then you’ll love Crynn’s mission in this thrilling tale. Buy now before the price changes! AMAZON
A new law that turns women into possessions
A city with evil at its core
Crynn Dayholt and her group of warriors discover the city of Peace. The man who runs the city, known as the Governor, welcomes them with open arms. As Crynn’s strong personality and warrior spirit emerge when her and her group become virtual prisoners, the Governor’s demeanor changes and not only Crynn’s life is at risk. Now the enemy of Soriah knows her location and that of her people.
In a desperate attempt to save her people, Crynn agrees to follow the man’s law. Then tragedy strikes and danger scales the fortified walls of Peace.
Can Crynn and her group fight an obstacle much larger than themselves in order to save their group of ragtag women and children searching for a new world? Or will everything they’ve fought for crumble around them?
Find out now in the fourth book of the Nightfall series. AMAZON
In a land shrouded by tyranny and oppression, a spark of rebellion ignites. Crynn Dayholt, a fierce and determined leader, rallies a diverse group of rebels to challenge the brutal regime of Soriah. As their compound falls under relentless bombardment, Crynn and her comrades embark on a daring mission to dismantle the oppressive system from within.
With allies like the enigmatic Fawke and a host of brave new recruits, they navigate treacherous alliances, face monstrous creatures, and endure harrowing betrayals. From the claustrophobic tunnels of their hidden lair to the heart of Soriah’s darkness, the rebels wage a relentless guerrilla war, inspiring a city to rise against its captors.
Amidst the chaos, Crynn’s leadership and resolve are tested, but her unwavering commitment to justice drives her forward. As they confront the regime’s most formidable forces and unearth secrets that shake their very foundation, the group’s ultimate goal becomes clear: the leader’s mansion, where the true face of tyranny awaits.
“The Fight” is a gripping tale of courage, sacrifice, and the unbreakable human spirit. In the battle for freedom, Crynn and her rebels will stop at nothing to see their city liberated, even as they grapple with the profound costs of their fight. As the dawn of a new era approaches, will Soriah finally break free from its chains?
Join Crynn and her band of rebels in this epic saga of rebellion, hope, and the quest for a brighter future. AMAZON
A darkness approaches…
… only a warrior fae can stop it.
The last thing Shayna wants is to convince a human to help her fight the evil encroaching on their world. Unconvinced anyone will believe her, Shayna leaves her world for the human one.
She faces an old friend turned traitor and an undead that wants to destroy her. But when she attempts to enlist the aid of a handsome cop, he refuses to believe in magic.
A war between worlds is looming. Will Shayna survive the task given her? AMAZON
Can an odd group of fae, human, leprechauns, and witches save not one world, but two?
What’s a fallen fae to do when trust has been lost?
The epic battle between good and evil continues.
Once a follower of the dark, Deema’s responsibilities increase as she strives to prove her worth to a race of fae she’d once betrayed. Not only is her life in danger against an evil traitor’s creation of a new breed of demon, but she longs to bind herself to a human…something forbidden to an heir of the throne.
Shayna becomes queen of the faerie, but refuses to lay down her sword. Once a warrior, always a warrior. She changes laws, rebuilds, and steps alongside Deema to fight an evil horde set on destroying not only the human world, but her’s as well.
The final battle approaches.
The world grows darker.
Who will be the victor? AMAZON
From leader of evil, to outcast, to wanting revenge…
Kasdeya joins forces with the faeries in hopes of witnessing first hand the destruction of Abaddon. She’d forgotten what it felt like to be human, with a heart that could be broken. Now, she would fight alongside the very people she’d once tried to extinguish and find that being human came with its own treasures.
Namely in the form of Detective Luke Marshal who saw through the darkness in Kasdeya and pulled her into the Light.
The final battle has come.
How many lives will be lost?
In this final book in the trilogy of The Fate of the Faes, a group of brave warriors must stare evil in the face. No one will walk away unscathed.
The fate of two worlds rests in one woman’s hands.
Can Kasdeya’s heart remain true or will she return to the power of the dark? The fate of two worlds rests in her hands. AMAZON
FIRST IN SERIES OF SEVEN
It isn’t about the zombies, it’s about the survivors.
A meteor hits a government research facility sending the world into chaos.
Chalice Hart must step up and lead a rag-tag group of survivors to safety.
Every place the group thinks is safe soon becomes overrun by either the undead or those wanting what the group possesses. Along the way, they accept other survivors into their group, while losing others on their journey to safety. Chalice’s hope lies in Colton, the first they’d picked up, and on rumors of a cure.
Their growing hope is shattered when the undead begin to mutant into something not even the horror stories they’d read as children could prepare them for.
Will the survivors find their safe haven or will the world forever be overrun by the hordes of undead? AMAZON