Second Nature

Ellison Blackburn lives with some of her favorite beings in Seattle, Washington. An early interest in the soft sciences, together with a career in information technology, ignited her curiosity in singularities many years ago. Thus, Ellison pens fiction that seems to crash like a wave over individual lives but rather leave a wake across societies too, stories that present multiple speculative ideas at once-because in real life, singularities will not manifest one after another in an orderly fashion. Among her published works are Flash Back, book one of the women's speculative fiction Fountain trilogy; If There Be Giants, book one of science fiction and speculative fiction Watchers duology; An Untimely End, book one of the science fiction and historical mystery series, the Windy City Files; and the cyberpunk dystopian fiction novella Virtue Us, the Future of Love.

A legacy bestowedAn inheritance claimedNow, the past will hold them accountableAs a chronicler, Emery Kidd is aware of the minute details of a society dramatically changed since regeneration began. As a citizen, life-extending cells have been coursing through her veins for over sixty years already. But something is changing. She just doesn't know what.But it all started when she discovered a new and very important fact about herself: She is the daughter of the most famous regenerative to have ever lived. And now, Emery's world is about to come face-to-face with its true inheritance, a reality that could lead to the extinction of regenkind.So what's a martyr's daughter to do? Should she take up her mother's torch or douse it in the nearest fountain?Set in a brave new world, SECOND NATURE continues the story of regenkind begun in Flash Back. Fans of time-travel, medical science fiction, and dramas with more than a dash of romance will enjoy book two of the Fountain trilogy.