Citadel

<p> Irven DeVore writes that "Males are a breeding experiment run by females." What if in fact women ran everything<em> Citadel</em> is a metafictional apocalyptic story braided into a contemporary novel built on the science of genetics. </p><p>Trisha de Tours is the acquisitions editor at Pinnacle Books. Her life revolves around drinking Chateau Vieux wine driving her Z-Ray hybrid picking up men at the beach.Trisha has two big problems. Her boss Clara Kreisler pushes her to come up with a bestseller or Trisha loses her job. Trisha meets Daiva Izokaitis a geneticist turned novelist who has written a blockbuster called <em>Citadel</em>. After successfully pitching <em>Citadel </em>to Clara<em> </em>Trisha retreats to the Desert Rose Motel for the time and peace she needs to edit the novel. As she works Trisha sees that in <em>Citadel </em>women have not only withdrawn from the male culture of rape and violence and are on a divergent evolutionary path but have mastered reproduction without DNA from the Y chromosome as they create a safe new world behind the high walls. At stake is the future of women. The questions are--what is a human? What is desire? What is love? What if a woman says No? Is it too late to stop the slaughter?Trisha reaches the conclusion that she like the characters in <em>Citadel</em> doesn’t need men to find fulfillment. After a violent incident at the launch of <em>Citadel </em>fiction becomes reality when<em> </em>Trisha and Daiva instead of running from the men who want to destroy them fight back by founding Citadel One the first real-time citadel. Time begins the New Count: Foundation 1 Floral 26.</p>