Riley Cross, YA & MG Author
Riley Cross is our Sci-Fi author of YA and MG Books!
Meet Riley Cross
Riley Cross is an author who loves merging the elements of
fantasy, science, and reality together. When not taking care of
her two children, typing away at her next story, or teaching
in the classroom, she enjoys brewing chocolate coffee, and
dancing to a random playlist.
Check out her books!
The Swamp of Doom – Early MG, Illustrated by AuthorxZombie
Blip – a.ka. the Bad Luck Princess – is a seventh-grade girl with royally bad luck. She isn’t bothered by the swamp rats, three-eyed toads, and hungry alligarks of Zone 13, and she’s certainly not phased by the chaos of her everyday life. But then again, she’s never been summoned by the siren of the swamp before now. To save her radioactive homeland, Blip and her friends in the The Cursed Champions’ Club embark on a quest to find the long-lost-sword-in-a-stone, all while evading a sinister government agent and dangerous spitting spiders. Can Blip and her friends rescue their beloved swamp, or is it simply one of those bad-luck days that is beyond saving?
Join Riley Cross – author, educator, Sci-Fi enthusiast, and mom – on a magical, disaster-filled adventure to discover the beauty behind imperfections.
Disconnected – YA Sci-Fi, Dystopian
Chiara was born a mistake. An Anomaly. In her struggle to belong in Unity’s genetically engineered social system, Chiara finds herself in the crosshairs of Auto, the ever-watching AI.
When her parents and grandfather are killed in a series of mysterious accidents, the teen is plagued by disturbing fragments of memory that suggest the deaths were no accident. Only Kaynine, her loyal robot dog, knows for sure what happened, and Chiara must find its corrupted memory files. She is desperate for the truth even if the cost is abandoning Silas, her long-time friend and unsanctioned crush.
She is on the verge of losing it all: honors-class ranking, best friend, and her dream of becoming an inventor. The virtual realm and reality collide as Chiara’s coding skills enable her to search for answers in the Forbidden Library. And when her journey takes her past Unity’s city limits and face-to-face with other social outcasts, Chiara realizes that one girl with a book just might be dangerous enough to crash the entire system of lies.
Fans of dystopian science fiction will love the novel’s deadly plot twists as it explores the darker nature of chasing perfection.
