Illinois Authors

Independently published 2024

Children are disappearing on Bounty — including Waverly. Desperate to find her, Wil and Piper team up with Wil’s former partner to uncover the secrets that could save the children from a fate worse than death. But time is running short. As Wil goes up against his most challenging adversary yet, he realizes that his mission could end up costing him those closest to him

Independently published 2022

Wil Barstow never thought he’d never see Bounty again when he became a Consortium Agent. But his impetuous ways always seem to land him in hot water. Now, after more than a decade away, he’s been reassigned to his sleepy home planet. What he believes to be a mundane assignment might prove to be his most treacherous one yet. Piper Scot is a genius, bio-augmented mechanic tasked with overseeing all of the Agency’s repairs on Bounty. Balancing her eccentric family along with her demanding job has her at her wits’ end. Yet when Wil returns, Piper knows her problems are just beginning. As a dangerous threat rises on Bounty, Piper and Wil will be forced to work together to save the lives of everyone on their planet – while also confronting a life-changing secret from their shared past.

Independently Published 2023

Wil Barstow was just starting to settle into his new life in Bounty, but the arrival of his former partner has his past and present colliding. They must work together to find the origins of a new potent drug that has hit the streets of Bounty and fight against Corliss’s new vigilante squad. The spiraling chaos threatens to affect those closest to Wil and he must act before it is too late.

Independently published 2019

Pressed into a mercenary guild since childhood, Hannibal Reese suddenly finds himself questioning his vocation after a chance meeting with independent transporter, Kira Dresden. When the Guild dispatch Hannibal to kill Kira, Hannibal must partner with her to upend the balance of power in the galaxy in order to protect a secret that is bigger than both of them.

Independently published 2019

Three months have passed since Shea Kelly and the rest of Boss's crew eliminated Danny Rose from the Non-Compliance Sector, but their troubles are far from over. A new, more dangerous opponent has emerged, causing those once considered enemies to strike a tenuous truce. Secrets about the vaccine, the chip, and the past threaten Shea's budding romance, not to mention the very existence of the crew.

Independently published 2019

Now that Boss is gone, it's up to Shea and Quinn to keep the peace in the NCS, but with a shortage of supplies, the Orphans making trouble, and Magistrate spreading propaganda about the crew, everything is descending into chaos. The NCSers begin to turn on the very people who are working hardest to keep them safe, and Shea knows something has to be done -and she's the one who must do it! When her family is threatened, and Shea has only one way out - compliance - she has to make the hardest decision of her life. Eldridge wants her brains and skills on his side of the fence, and if Shea can put up with being a citizen just long enough, maybe from the other side she can help everyone she's been forced to leave behind.

Kristell Ink 2017

Non Compliance: The Compendium The stories behind the stories… Revisit the world of Non-Compliance in this illustrated collection of short stories. In Beginnings, learn what life was like in the compound before Shea and Wynne arrived, and how Shea appeared on Boss’s radar all from Quinn’s point of view. A Very Compliant Christmas is a Christmas tale only Shea could tell about how the sector celebrates the season. Awakenings catches up with Shea and Quinn shortly after the events of the first book. They are coming to terms with the demons that haunt them and their feelings about each other. In The Excursion Shea will stop at nothing to find a cure for her flu-stricken friend, Wynne, even if that means venturing to the Compliant side.

Kristell_Ink 2012

I used to matter... but now I'm just a girl in a ghetto, a statistic of the Non-Compliance Sector. Shea Kelly had a brilliant career in technology, but after refusing to implant an invasive government device in her body she was sent to a modern-day reservation: a Non-Compliance Sector, a lawless community run by thugs and organized crime. She's made a life for herself as a resourceful barkeep, and hacks for goods on the black market with her best friend Wynne, a computer genius and part-time stripper. Life is pretty quiet under the reigning Boss, apart from run-ins with his right-hand man, the mighty Quinn: until Danny Rose threatens to take over the sector. Pushed to the edge, Shea decides to fight back ...

Independently Published 2023

Molly was a shy girl who lived in a world of books and imagination. No one understood her, but her older brother. But when Molly’s brother is murdered, she must break out of her shell and solve the mystery of his murder. Along the way, she meets a new friend and learns she is stronger than she thinks.

Independently Published 2023

Over twenty years after the fateful night of her brother's murder, Molly has returned home to San Francisco in the wake of the Great Earthquake of 1906 with another mystery waiting for her to solve. Her return sees her rekindle an old friendship and meet an old foe. Her journey back home may be the closure that Molly needs.