Kala Hicks is part of a covert elite military team that answers directly to the President of the United States. But during an emergency mission aboard Air Force One, Kala is shocked to discover that the real threat is none other than the President himself. Defying her commanding officer, Jack Norbin, Kala takes the shot, and her life changes forever. The moment the President is killed, a supernatural force speaks to Kala, telling her that she has to commit one act of atrocity every four days… or the world will end. Thrown into a reality she never could have imagined, Kala faces off with creatures of legend; from demons determined to make her fail and plunge the Earth into chaos, to angels who don’t trust her to do the job and are willing to kill her to claim it for themselves. Pitted against the forces of good and evil, Kala must choose whether to save the world by doing the unthinkable, or sit back and let it burn. And four days later, she’ll have to do it again. The Atlas Series is the next series from Becca C. Smith, author of The Riser Saga.

Book 3 of The Atlas Series.    Kala Hicks finally accepts her role as Atlas only to find out that her next mission is to die.    Sent to the Underworld, Kala must find the lost Olympian gods and bring them back to earth to face the Titans. But plans never seem to work out the way they're supposed to...

The Riser Saga: Riser, Reaper, RipperBook One Riser:Black swirling holes churning madly in the center of every corpse. This is how eighteen-year-old Chelsan Derée sees the deceased. Her ability to connect to the black spinning holes allows her to control every dead thing within a four-mile radius.But that’s the least of her problems. It’s 2320 and Chelsan Derée has to survive another year of high school, which for her is pure and utter torture, mainly due to the fact that her schoolmate Jill Forester’s favorite activity is making Chelsan’s life a living hell. If that isn’t enough, Chelsan’s impossible crush on Ryan Vaughn makes her brain do somersaults on a regular basis, especially since she is positive he doesn’t know she exists. And being eighteen Chelsan has to deal with the pressure of whether or not she should take a little pill called Age-pro, which cures aging, making the world eighteen forever and highly over-populated.When Chelsan’s mother, Janet, is brutally killed, along with everyone else in her trailer park, Chelsan finds out that she was the intended target.Chelsan must use her power to raise and control the dead to save herself, protect her friends and take down the man responsible for murdering her mother.Book Two Reaper:Reaper is the second book in the best selling teen series The Riser Saga.Chelsan Derée thinks she’s finally going to be able to live the normal, healthy life of a teenage girl who can control the dead. She thinks she’s free of psychotic grandparents, serial killers and government assassins. But no such luck - a child named Elisha, who desperately needs Chelsan to rescue her from an I.Q. Farm, is disrupting Chelsan’s dreams. Chelsan has to help Elisha because she knows the harrows of I.Q. Farms: secret warehouses full of genius children used as lab rats and given Age-pro (a pill that freezes the aging process, making them children forever). It’s only been two months since Chelsan’s first traumatic ordeal, but a whole new batch of torture has arisen, including constant fighting between her best friend Bill and her boyfriend Ryan, becoming allies with her worst enemy, and having to deal with her grandparents (which is saying a lot since they’re always trying to kill her!). But all of these things are going to seem pretty minor when Chelsan discovers a plot so horrifying, so terrifying, that it may destroy the world. She will have to learn more about her power to raise and control the dead so she can stop the evil.Book Three Ripper:Book three in the best selling series The Riser Saga.It’s been five months since Chelsan Derée’s harrowing ordeal with Elisha. Chelsan hasn’t heard a peep out of her (nor from her sociopathic grandparents), and she is counting her blessings. But when the new girl in school, Eva, appears to be after Chelsan’s head, Chelsan soon realizes that she’ll never be safe. Elisha is back and she has a new team of 300-year-old assassins to do her dirty work. Their first target is Chelsan’s Gramps: Vice President of Population Control, Geoffrey Turner. Chelsan must use her powers to help save the man who is responsible for killing her mother. Chelsan and her friends are yet again thrown into peril in order to save the world from Elisha’s sinister plans. And Chelsan’s tentative relationship with Turner is put to the test as they once again have to work together against a common enemy. Chelsan must defeat Elisha once and for all in the third installment of the bestselling series the Riser Saga.

Grigori Returned is the second book in The Atlas Series. Just seconds after Kala Hicks had to do the unthinkable, she’s thrown back into a world she didn’t choose and frankly could do without. Her next mission has her doubting whether or not being Atlas is for the greater good or the greater evil. Attacked on all sides, Kala must battle the Titans now, and Cronus himself wants to take her down. Learning more about her past and who Atlas really is, Kala finds a hidden power within that changes everything…**

Black swirling holes churning madly in the center of every corpse. This is how eighteen-year-old Chelsan Derée sees the deceased. Her ability to connect to the black spinning holes allows her to control every dead thing within a four-mile radius.But that’s the least of her problems. It’s 2320 and Chelsan Derée has to survive another year of high school, which for her is pure and utter torture, mainly due to the fact that her schoolmate Jill Forester’s favorite activity is making Chelsan’s life a living hell. If that isn’t enough, Chelsan’s impossible crush on Ryan Vaughn makes her brain do somersaults on a regular basis, especially since she is positive he doesn’t know she exists. And being eighteen Chelsan has to deal with the pressure of whether or not she should take a little pill called Age-pro, which cures aging, making the world eighteen forever and highly over-populated.When Chelsan’s mother, Janet, is brutally killed, along with everyone else in her trailer park, Chelsan finds out that she was the intended target.Chelsan must use her power to raise and control the dead to save herself, protect her friends and take down the man responsible for murdering her mother.