Unity Tested

by Kristene Perron

When fourteen-year-old Ama Kalder arrives in Unity Bay for her coming-of-age ceremony, she thinks the worst fate she’ll face is wearing a dress. Banned from any unladylike fun, the ever-rebellious Ama runs away and makes an impossible wager with the drunken captain of a grounded wreck: if she can float his dilapidated boat out of the mud, it’s hers. But, unknown to Ama, the wreck holds a deadly secret and the stakes of her bet could be the future of the Kenda resistance.

Unity Tested is a Shadow Story in the Warpworld adventure science fiction series. For a free copy of Unity Tested, visit www.warpworld.ca

40 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 26, 2013

About the author

Kristene is a former professional stunt performer for film and television (as Kristene Kenward) and a self-described ‘fishing goddess’. Pathologically nomadic, she has lived in Japan, Costa Rica, the Cook Islands and a very tiny key in the Bahamas, just to name a few. Her stories have appeared in Canadian Storyteller Magazine, The Barbaric Yawp, Hemispheres Magazine, Denizens of Darkness, Pulp Literature, Escape Pod, and On Spec. In 2010 she won the Surrey International Writers’ Conference Storyteller Award for BIRDS ALSO CRY and in 2015 she was a Writers of the Future Finalist.

She is the co-author of the five-book, adventure science fiction series Warpworld, which she penned with Joshua Simpson, and is back at the keyboard after an extended break.

Kristene currently resides in the salmon capitol of the world, Campbell River, BC, Canada, but her suitcase is always packed.

Reviews

[Andrew Rose · Rating 5 out of 5]

Prequel short

This is a prequel to Warpworld but I wouldn't recommend reading it first. It tells how Ama gets her ship but it also gives away spoilers about the resistance movement. After Warpworld you can enjoy it better.