Books by Mandi Jourdan

An enigmatic young woman struggles to discover her role in solving a puzzling murder. After the slaying of a brilliant robotics pioneer, Lila must decide how far she'll go to catch the killer and uncover the real source of the ominous plot. In a race against time, the gutsy heroine must unearth the truth before the sinister forces aligned against her destroy everyone and everything she holds dear. Lacrimosa is a sci-fi thriller ride through a riveting world of cutting-edge androids, nefarious secrets, and shocking betrayals. Will justice or love prevail? "Lacrimosa is part sci-fi, part crime thriller, and all character-driven heart. With kick-ass, powerful women-both android and human-Jourdan gives voice to characters you'll love and love to hate. Laura Benedict, author of THE STRANGER INSIDE

Eddie Dodson has vanished along with Mia, the enigmatic android who helped him escape justice for the murder of his business partner and the framing of Lila, his company's first creation. Desi Lawrence is promoted to the co-president of Lawrence-Dodson Enterprises, and she strives to lead the company in a way that would make her brothers proud while dealing with night terrors, police suspicion, blackmail, and paralyzing flashbacks of being held at gunpoint by the man she loved. Meanwhile, her brother Derek, Lila, and Ravenna Mitchell pursue the truth behind Damian's murder and the shadowy government organization that played a hand in it, which leads them to the doorstep of Ravenna's aunt Clarisse-the original leader of the Division.

Lila has no memory of who she is or how she ended up walking the streets of Manhattan alone in July of 2232. She only knows she is being hunted by day and haunted through the night by dreams of a man she can't remember apart from when her subconscious self holds him at gunpoint. Still reeling from the death of his brother, Derek seeks justice. When he views footage incriminating Lila, the woman he's come to care for perhaps too greatly, Derek knows something is very wrong. Derek's sister Desi blames herself for Damian's death, unable to forget how unkind she was to him at their last meeting and how she never repaid him for taking care of her after the death of their parents. In her guilt, she turns to Ravenna, a trained assassin and Damian's fiancée, to ensure that Lila is brought to justice while Desi herself seeks comfort in her brothers' business partner Eddie. Derek vows to find Lila before the police-and Ravenna, who is resolute that murder should be punished.