Book Three: THE FORGE OF DARKNESS
The lights are still out, and death and destruction arrive at the gate.
Just as Mitch Henley is reunited with April Gibbs, a friend he’d never expected to see again, more trouble arrives at the remote Henley farm in the form of murderous raiders on horseback.
Outnumbered and surrounded, Mitch and his friends must outwit their attackers and somehow prevail.
Nothing has been easy in their struggle to survive the collapse of the grid, but determination has kept them alive. Will Mitch’s skill match the challenge of this new test?
The Forge of Darkness is the third 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.