IS LOVE is a novelette series set in a world where natural love is forbidden. Girls are to be matched by the council in order to build a desirable society. Those who violate the Caiden Act are sentenced to live in the outer compounds, where the only thing that can save them is love.

I wasn't Rena Phillips, and he wasn't Colin McKenna.

It was as simple as that.

We were brought to nearby cells, left to await separate hearings before the Council all because we'd found something in one another that couldn't be manufactured – we'd found love.

The Council didn't care how we'd felt about one another. No matter how much I wanted to try to explain, to reason with them, I knew it was pointless.

Natural love in our society had long since ceased to exist.

From what we'd been told, our world had fallen victim to some sort of plague, taking with it any bit of stability our people had once known.