Stormflower

"The threads of psychological revelation that permeate the action with intrigue and discovery make Stormflower a passionately involving saga. It is complex in its world-building, attractive in its main protagonist’s flaws and struggles, and hard to put down." —D. Donovan, Sr. Reviewer, Midwest Book Review

On the ocean world Charybdis, Jade survived becoming a child soldier for an uncaring corporation, a war with monsters from the other side of existence, and service to a cult. She is exhausted, guilt ridden, haunted by secrets, and crippled by the grief of her brother’s death.
Worse yet, the cult still schemes.
She can see it in the unnatural plague rising within the world’s cities, for which there is no cure. She recognizes it in the monsters hunting her against their nature, and fears it when one of her only friends speaks of an alien compulsion he cannot understand.
Jade must discover what the cult plans, but doing so means returning to the corporation that raised her, and a nightmare she thought she had escaped.