Cara Lee is the name used for the dystopian works of Misti Wolanski. Technology, biology, propaganda, and the moral implications of all three have fascinated the author since she first noticed how people with power often abuse it. She now writes stories that explore the boundaries where helpful becomes hurtful, and vice versa, while her cat tries to sneak sips of her coffee.

If you want to read more from the same person's head…
• For more sci-fi, look for Misty White.
• For more the tangled characters and situations, look for Misti Wolanski.
• For stories even darker than what you've read, look for Carralee Byrd.
(These are all the same writer, just different nuances of brand.)

If you want to read something comparable but…
• more lighthearted, this author recommends Lindsay Buroker.
• more adult, this author recommends Grace McDermott or Gabriella Webster.
• not the same writer, this author recommends Jennifer Recchio.
(These are different people-not her-and she does not get any reimbursement for suggesting them.)

All aid is not kind.

After Raleigh stumbled out of her native universe, she suppressed the memory files of her time as a soldier. She and two other refugees from other universes rent an apartment together, pooling resources and helping each other cope with living in a somewhen other than the ones they'd grown up in.

But their native universes haven't forgotten them. Raleigh had to kill one roommate's bioengineered sister just yesterday-and, in the process, she had to activate far more of her built-in tech than she's used since entering the somewhen she's living in.

Her old captain's been waiting for her to do that.

A sci-fi novella featuring people who have escaped a bad situation, and who may or may not have reached a better one.

E-book has two versions of the story: one with salty language and one without.