Terminus Article 5

Some background information on my sci-fi YA series Terminus…

Jenny Chambers carries a lot of secrets.

To the public, she’s an unremarkable Director of Justice and member of the Conservative Party. To her friends, she’s secretly the wife of Alfred Kayma. But just as Kayma carries dark mysteries and abilities, so does Jenny. She’s a part of his conspiracy and thinks she knows all his secrets, but she may have some of her own.

Jenny never got along well with her mother, but when she died under mysterious circumstances Jenny felt compelled to investigate. She learned her mother had been investigating the conspiracy Kayma is a part of and believed them to be responsible. This is how she met Alfred Kayma… at gunpoint. He explained her mother died in a freak accident, a rare reaction to the telepathic silencer program they use to keep the public from learning of them. He also explained their goal is to prepare the GA to survive the Ronain threat by any means necessary. Jenny had always been a conspiracy theorist and felt strangely drawn to this man and his hidden world. She accepted her mother’s death and bit by bit became embroiled in the conspiracy. Eventually she even fell in love with Kayma.

She is the secret wife and co-conspirator of Kayma, but does she know everything? Is there a seed of doubt? Is he lying to her? And who is the mysterious older man she meets with, without Kayma’s knowledge?

Priya Jennings can talk her way out of anything.

As the Director of State, she’s an expert negotiator and stateswoman. She’s also the best friend of Majestrix Sarah Cayale and sometimes the only person who can talk her down. Priya just wishes she had a closer relationship with her son Alex, who is put off by her doting on him.

Priya met her husband John while defending him as a client. He was a leftist investigator digging into military and government corruption. They led a charmed life until a random shuttle accident killed him in front of her eyes. Priya never entirely got over that trauma, or her grief for him. Now Alex is all she has left of the man she loved, a fact that just makes him feel even more uncomfortable.

Terminus has seven primary characters: Sonyia Cayale and Alex Jennings, Majestrix Sarah Cayale, Director of Security Affairs Alfred Kayma, Director of Defense Danni Cayale, Director of Justice Jenny Chambers, and Director of State Priya Jennings.