Sapphire Shade Series by Ann Serafini

Somnial: adjective \ˈsämnēəl\ Of or pertaining to sleep or dreams. Asiah Torricelli has spent the last year of her life trying to forget her past. She abandoned the love of her life, Chase, and watched as the business she built up from the ground crumbled. Looking for a new start, Asiah now lives in Atlanta, working as a detective for the Atlanta Police Department. Without Chase to distract her, she is content with her new job and her new boyfriend, Avery... moreSomnial: adjective \ˈsämnēəl\ Of or pertaining to sleep or dreams. Asiah Torricelli has spent the last year of her life trying to forget her past. She abandoned the love of her life, Chase, and watched as the business she built up from the ground crumbled. Looking for a new start, Asiah now lives in Atlanta, working as a detective for the Atlanta Police Department. Without Chase to distract her, she is content with her new job and her new boyfriend, Avery. Until a violent nightmare shatters her reality… Blood, people running for their lives, and at the center of it all, Raven, the Ikhälean consciousness that now inhabits Asiah’s mind. Terrified, Asiah thrusts the nightmare aside, refusing to lend credence to its dark omen. It isn't long before more visions haunt Asiah’s dreams, foretelling of humankind’s ultimate demise in less than a month’s time. Desperate, Asiah grudgingly enlists Chase’s help, along with a handsome Secret Service agent named Nick Brockman. Haunted by her negligence to complete her mission since returning to Earth nearly a decade earlier, Asiah hardly knows where to begin. With a fast-approaching deadline to save the world, she must learn to think like the Ikhälea, or witness the end of mankind forever. less

Earth’s population has been decimated after an outbreak of the most virulent virus in the history of the world. In America, the remaining survivors have fallen under the control of the merciless Green Army, a powerful force of super-soldiers under the command of their ruthless and corrupt General, Jason Swann. With orders to round up America’s survivors under the guise of a quarantine, the soldiers also have orders to be on the lookout for one woman in particular – and to kill her on sight... moreEarth’s population has been decimated after an outbreak of the most virulent virus in the history of the world. In America, the remaining survivors have fallen under the control of the merciless Green Army, a powerful force of super-soldiers under the command of their ruthless and corrupt General, Jason Swann. With orders to round up America’s survivors under the guise of a quarantine, the soldiers also have orders to be on the lookout for one woman in particular – and to kill her on sight. The man she loves can’t remember who she is and her closest ally has disappeared, but Asiah Torricelli refuses to lose hope. Hiding out in a remote mountain town in Tennessee with her small group of survivors, Asiah has all but given up on ever seeing Chase again. After months of searching in vain, she finally stumbles upon a clue to his location, only to find that she must risk her life and those of her friends to infiltrate a GA stronghold in order to rescue him. But rescuing Chase is only the beginning. As the Green Army swarms across the country, recruiting new soldiers by the thousands, Asiah and her friends must join forces with another group of survivors led by a cynical ex-Marine named Kane, who harbors a festering hatred for the government that created the soldiers and started the epidemic that killed his family. He confesses to Asiah that his mission is to eliminate anyone involved in the virus’ release, no matter who it is. Worried that Kane may discover her role in the epidemic or that her pregnant sister might have another miscarriage, Asiah doesn’t have time to figure out why she and Chase can no longer touch each other without feeling an intense jolt of pain, or why her Ikhälean mother has suddenly appeared in the midst of her chaotic life as she attempts to move her people to a safe haven. Asiah faces her greatest challenge yet in this penultimate chapter of the acclaimed Sapphire Shade Series. less

The people of Earth have already suffered through one apocalypse, but they don’t realize that a second, more devastating threat is already on its way. The Ikhälean planet of Jakhële is dying, unable to support the last surviving Ikhälea in the universe. They must find a new home or be annihilated. A year after relinquishing her powers to a mysterious power source called the Darkhön, Asiah gives birth to her daughter, and finally has the opportunity to face the alien threat head-on... moreThe people of Earth have already suffered through one apocalypse, but they don’t realize that a second, more devastating threat is already on its way. The Ikhälean planet of Jakhële is dying, unable to support the last surviving Ikhälea in the universe. They must find a new home or be annihilated. A year after relinquishing her powers to a mysterious power source called the Darkhön, Asiah gives birth to her daughter, and finally has the opportunity to face the alien threat head-on. It means leaving her baby behind to journey with Chase into the unknown reaches of space to try to stop the impending war before it starts, without any clue of how to find the distant planet.But reaching Jakhële is only the beginning of an uphill battle in which Asiah must bridge the gap between her ancestral people and humanity, and to find a way to coexist, even if it means making the ultimate sacrifice. less