Now if you act up you don’t just get arrested in the traditional sense. Even bad behavior results in something that is much more sinister than anyone realizes. There are no longer policeman patrolling but in their place are soldiers. Now the Bill of Rights has been taken out and the Moral Statutes are replacing it. New York, Washington D.C., and Los Angeles have been totally emptied. The book opens up with major cities being abandoned. It was followed by Metaltown and Pacifica.Īrticle 5 is the first book in the Article 5 series. Burned Away was her second effort and it was released in 2017. Her novel The Glass Arrow was released in 2015. Kristen Simmons has also penned standalone fiction novels. Follow along as Ember finds her way in a scary and dark world that feeds off of control and chaos. The seventeen-year-old may live with her mother in a world where you can get arrested and carted away, but she knows that it wasn’t always this way here. She is old enough to remember the world a bit differently from the dystopian place that it is now. The Article 5 series is set on Earth and the main character in the first novel is Ember Miller. The final book is called Three and it fittingly makes the fiction series a trilogy. The second book in the series was titled Breaking Point and was released a year later. Kristen Simmons’ first published book was Article 5 and it was released officially in 2012. Simmons currently resides in Cincinnati, Ohio and when she isn’t hanging out with her family or writing she is busy supporting the caffeine industry. She enjoys spending time with her family, working out by Jazzercising, and eating chocolate cupcakes. In addition to writing, she has had an interesting past as she has taught Jazzercise in a variety of places and also worked with survivors of abuse. Kristen Simmons is an American author of fiction.

Article 5 by Kristen Simmons