KATE FOSTER is Chief Mission Engineer for NASA’s Project Heat Wave. While orbiting the Earth, its sophisticated equipment tests the use of high levels of microwave energy as an alternate power source for industry and communities. But terrorists attack the site, killing members of the team and stealing a computer memory stick that allows them to control the satellite's energy and use it as a deadly weapon against innoncents on the ground. Kate, with the help of Daniel Rooker (a counter-terrorist expert), the police, Homeland Security, the FBI and the Italian Carabiniere, must must force herself to extraordinary physical and emotional limits to stop the man who is ultimately behind the extortion plot -- earning him billions of dollars in return for the safetry of American citizens.
Kathryn Jensen Pearce, a former second-grade teacher, department store sales associate, bank clerk, and full-time mom, began her writing career with children in mind. Her first story ever sold was a little mystery tale for preschoolers.
As her own children grew, she moved on to writing for older children and finally for teenagers. Kathryn’s young-adult novel Pocket Change was published in 1989, and received critical acclaim for its story of a family’s traumatic experience with post-traumatic stress disorder from the perspective of the daughter of a Vietnam vet. In its wake came a dozen teen mysteries written under the pen name Nicole Davidson -- a combination of her daughter and son’s first names.Since then, her characters have grown up and now inhabit adult stories. She loves adding rich and exotic elements to her settings, many of them saved from her years living in Italy and traveling in Europe as a young military wife.Today, Kathryn shares her Maryland home with her two cats, recently rescued from a local animal shelter. She has published 34 novels for readers of all ages and is an instructor/consultant for Long Ridge Writers Group and The Institute of Children’s Literature, with over 300 students across the U.S., Canada, and as far away as Japan and Australia.
