The Sigma Surrogate (When Tomorrow Calls) by J.T. Lawrence

The Sigma Surrogate is actually the kick-off to J.T. Lawrence’s When Tomorrow Calls series set in a not-to-distant-future Johannesburg, South Africa. Birth rates have dwindled to a point where only very young women are capable of conceiving. Girls deemed the best of the best are recruited into the Surrogate Sisters, a cloistered group that produces offspring to keep the human race from eventual extinction.

Keke is a journalist working for the Echo newspaper still yearning for her big break – that career-making big story. She believes she’s finally found it when she receives an anonymous tip that of the Surrogate Sisters has been attacked and almost killed by a bomb planted inside their ultra-high security compound. And after meeting the young, injured SurroSister identified only as “Sigma,” she is determined to investigate what happened, uncover the truth about who would hurt the young woman, and, of course, break the story of a lifetime.

Along with her best friend, Kirsten, Keke calls upon her numerous high-tech (and underground) resources to get to the truth. However, what she uncovers goes much farther than she imagined and endangers everyone involved with her.

Such a good story with a strange and wonderfully dystopian world created to serve as the backdrop for all the action, intrigue, and romance. The characters are fun and well developed and the action is continuous in this futuristic setting. This story made me go immediately to look for more in the series.