A daughter’s love, a father’s betrayal and the fate of the human race. Maria Patterson was five when her mother took her to the Air and Space Museum, it was supposed to be a fun family outing. Instead, they stepped out to find Washington D.C. in flames and their personal bodyguard, Jacob Miller risking everything to save them both. She lost him that night. The night that the human race began to die. When she and her mother emerged from their panic suite they found themselves in a shocking new world order with Maria’s father ruling over all of it. Now, after fourteen years of preparation, her father intends to hand the empire to her. Before he does he plans to murder what few rivals remain in her path. Maria, surrounded by international intrigue, is forced into an arranged marriage to create a tenuous peace and must face the ever-present question of what part her father played in the deaths of billions. Can her love and trust in him survive his machinations? More importantly, will she? Do you enjoy action packed dystopian science fiction? Then read The Spire, a fast-paced action-adventure where the stakes are family and the future of the human race.