"Junkyard Cats" by Faith Hunter

"Junkyard Cats" by Faith Hunter
    https://www.amazon.com/Junkyard-Cats-Faith-Hunter/dp/1622681754/
Book number one of a four book novella science fiction series.  I read the well printed and well bound POD (print on demand) trade paperback published by Lore Seekers Press in 2023 that I bought on Amazon.  I have ordered the other three books in the series.
The book is set in the not so distant future, probably 2060 or so.  In 2043, thousands of Chinese Mama bots advanced into Seattle in 2043, creating and deploying Warbots to kill the population.  The Mama bots self replicate and spread across the USA, killing off most of the population with their warbots, starting "The Final War".
Shining Smith has just bought an old scrapped Tesla warplane for her West Virgina junkyard but she finds an old friend dead in the cockpit when she broke the military seals.  And, the plane is infected with bicolor ants, a nanobot enhanced ant that a crazy person introduced to the USA to eat all of the dead bodies.  Shining is one of the few known survivors of a bicolor ant swarm, who infected her with their nanobots. And she is a survivor of The Final War that started when she was 12. But her old friend is a warning that danger is coming.
The author has a website at:
    https://www.faithhunter.net
My rating:  5 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating:  4.5 out of 5 stars (4,587 reviews)
Lynn