Meet the Basker twins… Danger at the Clone Academy

 When twelve-year-old twins, Elsie and Everest, are forced to attend their uncle’s boarding school for clones while their parents are off-world on a secret mission, little do they expect to have a dangerous adventure themselves. The year is 3002, the place is Northern California, and on the surface, thirty-first-century Earth is a virtual paradise with no war, violent crime, homelessness, poverty, or disease. But underneath the pretty façade, greed and deception still exist. Someone at the clone academy is smuggling in artifacts from the twenty-first century for outrageous profit. The students are being used as cover for this reprehensible abuse of time travel for personal gain. Elsie and Everest must overcome the clones’ initial distrust and dislike so that they all can band together to fight a common enemy. Life gets even more complicated when the Baskers and the clones find they’ve transplanted a twenty-first-century kid to the thirty-first century. Now the students have to stop the bad guys without irreparably altering history as they know it.

75% of all profits for this first Basker Twins book in the series goes to Friedreich's ataxia research, a life-shortening, childhood-onset disease.

The Basker twins return in... The Mystery of the Pendant

Twelve-year-old twins, Elsie and Everest, finally feel as if they are starting to fit in at their uncle’s boarding school for clones, despite not being clones themselves. Then a man claiming to be a close associate of their parents, arrives at the academy and tells them their parents—off-world on a secret mission—are missing and presumed dead. He demands they give him the pendants that their parents made them promise to keep safe. The twins refuse to believe their parents are dead, and there is no way they will trust this stranger. Instead, they choose to run, hoping to find and save their parents. To their surprise, twelve-year-old clones Dar, Vlas, Lelita and Borneo, as well as twenty-first-century transplant, Larry Knight, offer their help. With danger on all fronts, this intrepid team will do whatever it takes to save the Basker Twins' parents and solve the mystery of the pendants.

My vision of the future...

I had so much fun writing a book set a thousand years into the future. I was able to make up all sorts of things. Some favorites include:

• “Jellach vehicles” which bounce off each other without harm as they zip through the air.
• Incredibly helpful, nearly invisible devices called pico-brownies that clean houses at night.
• Zero-calorie chocolate--a dream come true!

You'll find many more fun innovations when you read my books:-)

My commitment to raising money for Friedreich's ataxia research...

Best of all, my world of 3002 is basically disease-free. To help make that vision a reality, 75% of all profits from Danger at the Clone Academy is donated toward research to slow, stop, and reverse Friedreich’s ataxia. This rare, life-shortening childhood-onset disease causes progressive damage to the nerves and muscles. Symptoms usually begin between 5 and 15 years of age. Sadly, many people with FA die in early adulthood due to heart disease. But there is lots of hope moving forward because of the dedication of a broad community of people who care and have faith in the future. For more information, please click here.