The Visitors

Sometimes soul mates find each other in unlikely places. But is love worth it if it risks your life? Seventeen-year-old Noah is startled when he awakes one day to find that dangerous, irrational, self-serving, and destructive visitors called "humans" are coming to visit his beautiful, perfect society. All citizens are ordered to have limited contact and share minimal information with the-se visitors. Sixteen-year-old Jady is thrilled to accompany her father and his crew on a trip to a recently-discovered planet, Verdant. The United States' crew is hopeful that they can learn from this ad-vanced yet similar species. Despite their greatest efforts to fight it, it doesn't take long for Jady and Noah to fall in love and begin a secret affair. But when their relationship is revealed, danger is created for everyone in-volved...

Katy Newton Naas graduated from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale with a bachelor’s degree in English Education and a master’s degree in Reading and Language Studies. She cur-rently teaches high school English in southern Illinois. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her family, including her husband, her young son, Aven, and her four-legged sons, Shake-speare and Poe. From a young age, Katy was always an avid reader and writer with a big imagination. She spent much of her childhood searching for ghosts and UFOs to no avail - but she hasn’t given up her hunt just yet. Though she continues to grow older, her true literature love is and has always been young adult fiction. She loves creating both futuristic and realistic stories about teenagers, and feels so fortunate to get to work with them every day as a teacher.