Part One
Maroon
Heiress to the DuPont oil fortune, daughter of a French-born physician, and the one person in her family who can’t stop watching the empty streets below.
“I will banish from them the sounds of joy and gladness…”Jeremiah 25:10
Revenge started the war.Forgiveness will end it.
Maroon
A Short Story
An heiress, a rebel, and the war between their families, set in an America a thousand years from now.
The debut of Amela Johnson
The story
November 30, 3016
“Maroon couldn’t shake a tragic feeling.”
The year is 3016, and America is split in two: the glittering western sectors, and the eastern districts left to starve. For years the Meager War has flared and faded like a fever. Now the rebels are coming up the hill.
Maroon-Alouette DuPont is heir to an oil fortune and to Chatsworth, the estate her family calls Our Little Amelot. All her life she has been told that her name will keep her safe. Then she meets the girl who says she started the war.
Three voices, one war
Maroon is told in three parts, each through different eyes, and each opening with a line of scripture.
Part Two
Lowles
Barely older than Maroon, and the rebel who says she started the Meager War. She and her brother survived what the rest of their family didn’t. She hasn’t forgotten who was to blame.
“Woe to those who make unjust laws…”Isaiah 10:1
Part Three
Tomas
Lowles’s older brother and the rebellion’s natural leader. Winning a war is one thing. Deciding what comes after it is another.
“Do not say, ‘I will repay evil’; wait for the LORD…”Proverbs 20:22
Meet Amela
Amela Johnson decided at fourteen that she would publish a novel. Maroon is the first step.
She is a Division I track athlete, a political science student on the pre-law track, and a lifelong reader of dystopian fiction, history, and the rise and fall of royal houses. She believes each of those gifts came from God on purpose, and she writes the way she runs: all in.
Meet Amela at the Florida Author Fest
Saturday, October 10, 2026 · 10 AM to 1 PM
Veterans Memorial Library, St. Cloud Branch. Free admission.
Signed copies of Maroon, and a comic edition you won’t find anywhere else. It will only be at her table, only that day.
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sui generis · of its own kind
Sui Generis
Her orb has fallen. The royal family is dead. And the War Lord who could have ended her has decided, instead, to let her go.
A novel in progress
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