Roan needs a better name...

So, I introduced the cover art for TWISTED METAL last week, and a major problem is the name of the heroine. Roan... doesn't work.

Neither does Sonya or anything else I've tried. Please, help me name this character!

Ar Theta One, aka Roan, is a doctor in the Hospital of Little Mercies on the perpetually war-torn planet Pequena. She doesn't expect much out of life, although survival would be nice. The odds aren't in her favor, though, when she's taken to a military post on the moon.

During a military coup the prisoner Roan kept alive for torture saves her life, and loses his own when they crash land on an alien planet.

As a reminder, Roan has the metal shrapnel from the shuttle and a piece of the prisoner's face mask made into a ring. She wears it everywhere. Including to the new university where she teaches, and in front of a man with a familiar face and strange scars.

Explosions, bad decisions, and secrets alienate Roan in her new world. With a past like this haunting her, can she ever build a future?

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Cover Art Reveal: TWISTED METAL

This is the unofficial cover art for TWISTED METAL. It is finished, but hasn't been queried and doesn't have a publication date. I won a free cover from the talented Dani Fine (@DanielleFine1 ) and asked her to do the sequel to FEY LIGHTS. For those who have been asking for a longer work, this is a full-length novel.

Ar Theta One, aka Roan, is a doctor in the Hospital of Little Mercies on the perpetually war-torn planet Pequena. She doesn't expect much out of life, although survival would be nice. The odds aren't in her favor, though, when she's taken to a military post on the moon.

During a military coup the prisoner Roan kept alive for torture saves her life, and loses his own when they crash land on an alien planet.

As a reminder, Roan has the metal shrapnel from the shuttle and a piece of the prisoner's face mask made into a ring. She wears it everywhere. Including to the new university where she teaches, and in front of a man with a familiar face and strange scars.

Explosions, bad decisions, and secrets alienate Roan in her new world. With a past like this haunting her, can she ever build a future?

I wrote TWISTED METAL back in February of 2010, the fourth novel in that universe. I abandoned the whole universe later that year.

Sometimes I go back in my files, find an old story, and wonder why I quit. With TWISTED METAL I quit because the ending was a Hawt Mess (that's the official term) and I wasn't sure how to fix it. Two years away from the disaster zone gave me a clearer perspective. That means TWISTED METAL is up for revision and publication.

*note* I will need betas when the ending is cleaned up. I'm looking at late 2012, early 2013. Let me know if you're interested and I'll let you know when I need betas.