What if? That is the crux of fiction...but it means nothing without realistic characters to drive the story. I am L.S. Bonta. My stories ask impossible questions through the perspective of realistic characters who strive to answer those questions in unexpected ways. My stories range from dystopian horror to science fiction adventure. All of them share one aspect: Emotional Honesty.
Eclipse Systems, Book 1
Aurora knows how to stay in control. But her sister, Raven, is dying...and control is slipping away. The treatment that could save her lies within the corporate world Rory doesn't trust, a place where every opportunity comes with a price. Rory must decide what she's willing to risk to save the one person she can't lose. Because this time, winning isn't enough.
She can win any race...until the one that matters isn't on the track.
Eclipse Systems, Book 2
Raven spent her childhood sick--completely dependent on her older sister. Now she wants to forge her own path...only the corporation that paid for her cure has other plans...
Full trilogy in one volume
A ship that once facilitated war through supplying weapons, now rescues orphans from war-torn planets. That mission gets disrupted by alien forces. What do they want? How can the crew overcome seemingly superior odds?
Luminexis, Book 1
The light was supposed to save us.
The new technology promised a breakthrough—colors no human had ever seen, a revolution in perception, a cure for cognitive decay. Then came the silence. Then the collapse.
Now, two siblings with glowing eyes wander the ruins of a broken world, hunted, worshiped, feared. They see things others can’t. Dreams that come true. Creatures that shouldn't exist. And a name—forgotten by history, but carved into every crumbling wall.
LUMINEXIS.
In the ashes of the old world, the truth is still alive. And it’s watching.
Luminexis, Book 2
Before the fall, there was light. After the fall...there were the Shinelings.
But the story didn't begin with them.
Long before the twins walked the wasteland, a chimpanzee named Bear endured the cruelty of the labs that started it all. Given intelligence through the very technology that destroyed civilization, Bear found love, loss, and a reason to fight. His wooden whistle carries the voice of the woman who saved him—and his fury burns for everything she lost.
Luminexis, Book 3
War never ends. Each day, soldiers clash and die along the Highway. Each night, the Street Cleaner comes — a vast, grinding machine that erases the bodies as if they never existed. No one dares to question it. No one asks where the dead are taken.
Until Ashe does.
Driven by loss and haunted by curiosity, Ashe and his comrade Mia break ranks to follow the machine into the wastelands. What begins as a search for answers becomes a nightmarish journey through rot, ruin, and forgotten truths. With each step, they draw closer to the secret at the heart of the Cleaner’s endless cycle — a revelation more terrifying than the war itself.