As they head towards the United States on Roberto's luxury yacht, Celeste, the fragile blond beauty and traveling companion of South American drug lord Robert Moreno, is torn between the part of her that loves Roberto and the part whose duty requires her to betray him. The ending for Celeste is a new beginning for Jessie. After the young twins, Jessie and James, witness the violent death of their parents, they withdraw into their own world, remaining sheltered inside their uncle's Boston flat. As they grow up, only their endless thirst for technical knowledge and confidence derived from martial arts gives them the ability to finally venture out in the real world. After Jessie becomes paralyzed, she struggles to make her life whole again. Juno Wolfe, software security guru for a companies using drones for deliveries, uncovers a plot to cause mass destruction that she and her young programmer friend, Truman, must unravel before the countdown ends.
Jan McCleery spent her career in Silicon Valley as a software engineer and leader in aerospace, enterprise applications, and technology. Lured by the dot.com boom, she co-founded a successful start-up, Azerity, creating solutions for semiconductor manufacturing companies.
After retirement, she wrote her first book about her start-up experience, "It Starts with an Idea," then continued by writing her memoirs, children books, and most recently her spy novel series, "The Secret Lives of Jessie Monroe." The fifth, THE AURORA EFFECT, was published January 2024. The books are part spy novel, part political thriller, and part romance novel. Most of all, each is a statement about the times we live in and current popular topics!