Release Blitz & #Giveaway: Reclamation (Dark Horse #1) by Kristen Zimmer
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Reclamation
by Kristen Zimmer
(Dark Horse Series, #1)
Publication date: December 9th 2025
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Kristen Zimmer, author of The Gravity Between Us, When Sparks Fly, and Forbidden Girl takes readers on an adrenaline-fueled dystopian journey into the future where a scrappy band of rebels rise up to bring down an unequal and unrelenting government.
This is your future.
The United States of America has been gone for over a century.
In its place, The Unified American Territories—a nation divided, the impoverished and the wealthy are separated by a looming steel wall. In the Northern Territories—The Vault, as it is known by its inhabitants—the government rules with an iron fist: All citizens are tested for intelligence and aptitude, thrust into compulsory higher education and saddled with insurmountable debt. All student loans are granted and controlled by a branch of the regime called The Federal Bureau of Education. Failure to repay their debt consigns borrowers to the Knowledge Reclamation Process, a mysterious government-sanctioned brainwashing program that strips them of their education with dire mental and physical side effects.
Fletcher Daniels is a recent college graduate struggling to stay ahead of her arrears. After a visit from Reclamation Agents, she knows her life is about to change for the worse. Enter Youth Opposed to Reclamation, a scrappy band of rebels who try in their own small way to bring some relief to the people of The Vault by smuggling as many potential Reclaimees to safety as possible. When Fletcher meets and falls for fellow female YOR member, Sparrow, her world is twisted away from the one she once knew even more radically. The group offers Fletcher a chance to escape her fate, but through them, she sees the promise of bringing real change to The Vault. History has taught her that even the smallest rebellions can trigger revolutions. It’s time for history to repeat itself.
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FLETCHER WAS ALWAYS CAUTIOUS when she went out after sundown. Though she had many friends around the neighborhood, she understood Boston proper was not the safest place to live. It was the second-largest city in The Vault—bested only by Indianapolis, the capital city of the Illiana Territory (and that came only after Chicago had been burned to the ground and the Manhattan Atolls, once called New York City, were converted into the country’s largest landfill)—and had the highest crime rate of any city in the Northern Territories. The criminal underbelly of Boston mostly involved illegal drugs, or an illegal drug—the only one that really existed anymore: Quell. In Fletcher’s city, the fuchsia-colored liquid injections were in such high demand that there were QuellSells on every other street corner. Fletcher herself had never been interested in partaking of the drug, though she could appreciate its appeal. It was a cheap knock-off neurosedative that offered the same calming effect of the genuine medicine, minus the requisite Government mind-meddling and subsequent unpleasant institutionalization. Quell numbed people, helped them get by without feeling like they were drowning, which was why The Government wanted it off the market and why Fletcher was chapter three 21 not entirely morally opposed to it. Fletcher knew that some QuellSells were dangerous, not to be trifled with in any regard, though she also counted a few of them among her neighborhood friends. In general, it seemed many of the drug dealers were just poor kids—some as young as ten or eleven—trying their hardest to get by or help their parents pay the bills. Still, there were others... At that point in her two-mile trek, Fletcher was only a few yards away from her building. She began to let her guard down. And that was when she heard it: the echo of a gunning engine bouncing off stone-faced buildings and the screech of spinning tires. She crooked her head to the left, and from her peripheral vision saw a black cargo van hurtling down the street toward her. She had no time to rationalize. Something in her gut told her to run, so she ran. With every footfall, her heart thumped harder against her ribcage. She heard its erratic beating, a drum cadence booming inside her skull. Her breath quickened and passed through her body in time with her pulse. She was not fast enough. Someone reached out through the night and caught her by the hood of her jacket. They tugged her backward savagely, and large hands encircled her torso. Fletcher’s sensation of fear blossomed into terror as she began to tussle against her would-be abductor, kicking and flailing her arms. She tried to scream, but a second pair of hands tied a gag around her mouth before the sound could escape her throat. Her wrists were then bound together with thick brown rope. The first pair of hands whirled her around, lifting her off the ground. She saw that they belonged to a tall, muscular man who wore dark coveralls. She could not see his face behind a black ski mask. The giant threw her over his shoulder as though her 120 pounds of flesh and bone were as easy to manage as a bag of raked foliage. Fletcher wriggled her body against him, thrusting her tiny fists into his dorsal muscles as he carried her toward the van. Her efforts were in vain; the man did not flinch even once.
Kristen Zimmer is the author of The Gravity Between Us, which spent 12 weeks as the number one best-seller in both the Lesbian Fiction and Lesbian Romance genres on Amazon. It was listed as one of USA Today’s “10 Best books to read for Pride 2018” and in December 2021 was named one of Reader's Digest '50 Best Romance Novels of All Time'
That same year, her follow-up novel, When Sparks Fly, debuted as the best-seller in Lesbian Fiction and Lesbian romance, and clung to the spot for four weeks.
Her latest novel, Forbidden Girl, a dark mafia sapphic romance, is available now.
Kristen lives in Salem, Massachusetts— yes, where the witches were.
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