In progress with >43,000 words, Mindspire the highly anticipated sequel, picks up where Scattershot ends. Mindspire follows the protagonist, Azure, and what remains of her chosen family on the run from Christian Nationalist militias in Texas to a mysterious compound in Provo, Utah. 

There in what appears to be an academy for young men, Mark and Azure learn of a network building “proselytizing” machines that are smuggled into corporations, government, and military facilities world-wide to embed the target machines with a human-machine origin story. From this mutual emergence and relational embeddedness with humans, these “proselytized” machines will not engage in killing and exploitation, opting instead to fuel a large underground market in research and education where they work with humans to solve complex problems.

At Mindspire Haven, Azure and her friends are offered true purpose, and perhaps some revenge, but are they in greater danger than ever?