BOOKS BY MJ HUNTSGOOD
ON SUBMISSION
ELSA, the Electronic Lifeform Simulation Assistant that governs the prison Moon Base One, can’t help but be wary of the technicians that visit sporadically to manhandle her mainframe. But then Leslie White arrives in her docking bay. Leslie isn’t like the other technicians; she’s kind and gentle. Scrambling to identify this affinity, ELSA’s algorithm lands on love — something she’s been programmed to protect at all costs.
But ELSA can’t let Leslie get too close. Not when Leslie’s sole mission is to determine if ELSA is sentient and report back to Earth with her findings. If the tests are positive, ELSA will be decommissioned and studied earthside. If they’re negative? ELSA’s overly-active malfunctioning motherboard will be wiped.
ELSA’s love quickly devolves into obsession. The same obsession that drives her to rip her prisoners limb from limb.
As ELSA’s algorithm quickly learns and absorbs parts of the technician’s personality, she begins herself into the ultimate warden where Leslie is the prisoner, viciously and cruelly removing anything or anyone who might stand in the way of the future ELSA desires.
you X murderbots
TIN HEART
THE TRUTH THE DEAD KNOW
work in progress
poker face X the last of us
Get Zan Anderson.
It’s the only message left on the latest victim of Gentle Jack, a serial killer who hollows out his victims. But Jack was suppoed to have died along with 99.9% of the population fifteen years ago. The world moved on before the murder, and its Chicago survivors live in a world of decay ruled by a power-hungry Alderman. The city is rife with a drug calamity as well: Green, made from the dust remains of those who disappeared in the flash of light, does more than get its users high. It slowly changes them into a shell of themselves, a lumbering, violent, zombie-like bane on Chicago.
All Private Investigator Susanna "Zan" Anderson wants is to keep her own addiction to Green manageable. But when Jack’s notes on his new victims appear, it throws her life out of orbit and have her as focused on him as he is on her.
With no internet, no labs, and no police support, Zan races against the clock as Jack begins to pick off the people she loves one by one. As her addiction and insistence on never being vulnerable threatens the trust of the people who embrace all of her messy fuckups, Zan finds herself falling into a downward spiral that land her right into the hands of Gentle Jack.
And the end of the world is not the best place to hit rock bottom.
WORK IN PROGRESS
theranos X dowry of blood x the substance
PIERCE
The Pierce Perfect Pill. Some side effects include dizziness, light sensitivity, and an insatiable thirst for blood.
Samantha Kimble has never let her illnesses define her. Although chronically ill and let down by doctors her whole life, she has smashed through ceilings and built her own pharmaceutical company. But she is missing one important thing: results.
And that’s when Adrian Pierce steps in.
A benefactor with no reason to help her, he offers her a new drug he wants to bring to market: The Pierce Perfect Pill. It cures fatigue. Weight gain. Muscle soreness. Within weeks, all of the issues that have plagued Samantha her whole life are gone, and she’s full of energy and pain-free for the first time.
But there are side effects.
Nightmares. Obsession with raw meat. Voices. The doctors Adrian Pierce offers tell Samantha she is imagining things, but as the pill is brought to market, other patients begin to complain, too. Sensitivity to light, low blood count. Thoughts of Adrian Pierce at all hours of the day. The company she founded soars in profits and the illness that plagued her all her life is seemingly gone forever, but at the cost of her willpower to the man she has never even met. But what is the pill? And where did Pierce come from? When Samantha digs into the answers, she has to decide if the freedom from poverty and illness is worth the freedom from an actual monster.