Book Two: INTO THE RIVER LANDS
Survival in a world of evolving chaos
The grid has been down for seven months now, and law and order has completely given way to anarchy and violence.
Seventeen-year-old Mitch Henley has returned to his family’s backwoods homestead to avoid the dangers of the cities and towns and look after his little sister while they wait hopefully for their parents’ return.
Putting to use the survival skills he’s learned from his father, veteran game warden, Doug Henley, Mitch is holding his own, at least until he crosses paths with trespassing poachers in the river land forests that surround the Henley farm.
Following a trail that ends on the banks of Black Creek, Mitch finds something completely unexpected.
Once again, he will be forced to unleash his deadly arrows, stalking a band of killers who have taken a girl he thought he would never see again.
Into the River Lands is the second book set in the desperate, grid down world of the Darkness After Series, the story of a group of teens and young adults fighting to survive in a world gone dark.
The Darkness After Series
The Darkness After is a post-Apocalyptic novel set in the same, anarchy-ruled world of my first novel, The Pulse. Most of the action takes place in the backwoods of south Mississippi, after the main characters make their way out of a blacked-out New Orleans.
After the publication of The Pulse in 2012, I began this parallel story with a different set of characters facing the same chaos and danger caused by the complete shutdown of the power, communication and transportation grid in North America. Mitch and April, the two main characters here, are both in their late teens, and both have strong motivation to get where they're going and unique skills to help them survive against staggering odds. Mitch is a hunter, obsessed with the woods in the same way that I was when I was his age, escaping school and confinement at every opportunity to spend time in the wild. April is a city girl, but a tough one who's been on her own since losing her parents. No one would guess from looking at her, but she's also deadly at hand-to-hand combat, having mastered the techniques of Kenpo taught to her by her Dad over many years before his passing.
As a team, Mitch and April are unstoppable in their quest to get to the ones depending on them for survival.