Splitting Sand (Lost Atlantis Book 1)

After years of chronic abuse, twelve-year-old White Sand feels that she no longer has a soul. After she runs away, she assumes she's free to make her own choices and become her own person. However, she has woefully underestimated the power of the past. At age sixteen, it's still as though it all happened yesterday. Worse: over the years, her memories have become the droning premonitions of her own doomed future.

No matter how many daily distractions intrude on her dark memories, the memories and reactions from her family of origin are still at the molten core of a rage ruining her semi-adult life in the Army. Lying about her age and pretending to be an adult hasn't resulted in the "normal" adult lifestyle she dreamed of.

Set in a dystopian Lost City of Atlantis, White Sand slowly grows up over the course of six books and learns to let go of her pain. And in a strange way, she learns to do it by killing people. Because a certain secret society of martial artists are only too happy to offer back the love she lost, if only she will do their leader a few... favors.