The “A Vested Interest” book series

About the series | Genre?

So what's the series genre?

People ask us "What are your books about?" often. It's a little difficult to explain because we cover multiple genres. One of our reviewers wrote:

    "It is a story of corporate jealousy at the highest levels, greed, spite, vengeance, advanced technology, medicine, love and betrayal, and the very essence of life itself. 

    WOW - that is a lot to cover in one book! Read this book - you will be glad you did."
Thank you Ancient Warlock. That pretty well sums it up. But that only refers to the first book... so here's a list of things we cover in the series in the 14 books so far (some not yet published).
  • Through genetic therapy, immortality may be possible and real for 98%. You can still be killed by accident so immortality means an average lifespan of 1,729 years.
  • Through nanotechnology, force fields could be created.
  • For each of us, there is a partner who is a perfect match and several near matches. You'll know when you find your perfect match, and think you'll know when you find a near match.
  • Ancient documents indicate the Earth has been visited by benign aliens who helped Man and left after setting up markers, because they were not gods.
  • Forget governments, there is a secret organization which is the real directing power on Earth. Politicians take the blame when things go wrong and make good targets to shoot at. There is always someone unhappy at the 'leaders.'
  • With the right triggers, weather could be controlled, but that control would be tenuous.
  • The Earth is doomed - but not yet. Until Man becomes immortal, it's a problem which 'can be left to the next generation because I won't be here'.
  • If we continue to leave things to our descendants (as now), mankind will be extinct in a few thousand years.
  • Faster than light travel is possible. We don't know how to do it though.
  • Teleportation exists. For the moment, Man can't control it, but we have some ideas.
  • Telepathy exists, and we think we know how it works.
  • Psychics may not, after all, be entirely fake.
  • It's possible to totally, and safely convert matter to energy but to do it, a catalyst is needed. Man can't create the catalyst yet. It doesn't occur naturally in the earth's crust. There are at least 27 samples of it on Earth 20 of which are lost.
  • Just as there are benign aliens, there are hostile aliens happy to be 'gods'. They would take advantage of man.

Finally, here's a complete list of the series in order (because Amazon isn't very good at putting things in chronological order). It includes some books not yet available.

  1. Raging Storm - A 'Blood of the Rainbow' prequel book written by Shelia
  2. Roses and Regret - The second 'Blood of the Rainbow' prequel book written by Shelia
  3. Choice and Change - The third 'Blood of the Rainbow' prequel book written by Shelia
  4. A Vested Interest - The original book 1, and a good place to start.
  5. Dark Secrets
  6. No secrets
  7. Stones, Stars and Solutions
  8. Leap of Faith
  9. Regret and Retribution
  10. Consequences
  11. Ashes to Ashes
  12. Dust to Dust
  13. The third Gift (In development)
  14. String to the Stars (in development)

Of the currently available books we suggest you read them in order 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 1, 2, 3, 9, 10, 11, 12

The books

A Vested Interest - Book 1 of A Vested Interest series

Book 1 is free at:

  • iBooks
  • Barnes & Noble
  • Kobo
  • Google Play
  • Smashwords

Get your copy here.

Dark Secrets - Book 2 of A Vested Interest series No Secrets - Book 3 of A Vested Interest series Stones, Stars and Solutions - Book 4 of A Vested Interest series Leap of Faith - Book 5 of A Vested Interest series Regret and Retribution - Book 6 of A Vested Interest series Consequences - Book 7 of A Vested Interest series Ashes to Ashes - Book 8 of A Vested Interest series Dust to Dust - Book 9 of A Vested Interest series Raging Storm - Book 1 of Blood of the Rainbow - an A Vested Interest prequel series Roses and Regret - Book 2 of Blood of the Rainbow prequel series Choice and Change - Book 3 of Blood of the Rainbow prequel series A Vested Interest - Book 1 of A Vested Interest series

Interesting but irreverent factoid

The book title 'The Da Vinci Code' implies that Leonardo's surname was 'da Vinci'. This is wrong, it simply means 'from Vinci'. The title would be more accurate if it was 'The Leonardo Code.'


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