The Power of Two is book 4 in the
2176 multi-author futuriistic romance series put out by Leisure a few years ago. The series, set in the year 2176, features a world world by the United Colonies of Earth-except for the pesky Kingdom of Asia. Lets just say that while one government claims to be a democracy, both governments would make most of us break out in hives. The series kicks off when a US pilot named Bree "Banzai" Maguire is found in stasis in TKoA. Banzai quickly-and without her permission-becomes the figurehead of a rebel faction(most likely led by Banzai's missing partner, Cam-dunno, haven't read the last book yet.) In
The Legend of Banzai Maguire, Banzai escapes TKoA with her lover, Ty Armstrong, the son of the leader of UCoE's armies and has been in hiding from all sides ever since.
I loved the first book in the series, Susan Grant's The
Legend of Banzai Maguire, sadly couldn't get into the second, Kathleen Nance's
Day of Fire(ironically, the only author in the series who I'd read before) and loved the third, Liz Maverick's
The Shadow Runners.
The Power of Two is about Cai Randolph and her partner, Jacob Tucker. A child prodigy, Cai was recruited my the military for her brain after her parents' disappearance when she was 16. There, she was drafted for an experimental procedure that, to avoid a long, involved explanation, uses cybernetics to bond field agents and computer geniuses. Cai, the "anchor" monitors and feeds information to Jacob and his team on missions and guides them and handles any technology they may have to face from her cozy little control room. In all such pairs, the link and relationship quickly became symbiotic despite never meeting in person, but five years later Jake and Cai are the only team where the anchor didn't burnout and sustain brain damage within the first year. When their commanding officer wants them to go on a mission to the Raft Cities-the future's version of tortuga-with Cai there in person, Cai jumps at the chance, believing that the man she thinks is responsible for her parents' disappearance is there.
