Book Four: THE SAVAGE DARKNESS
Ruthless marauders leave Mitch Henley and his band of survivors homeless.
When the remote Henley homestead is burned to the ground in a brutal attack, Mitch and his friends bury their dead and move to a deep woods hideaway where survival becomes a struggle against raw nature.
But they are soon faced with another crisis that requires something that can only be found in the ruins of the towns and cities. Taking a single companion, Mitch embarks on a perilous quest into dangers unknown.
The others wait and wonder if he will return, while in his absence an unexpected visitor tracks them to their wilderness refuge.
The Savage Darkness is the fourth 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.