There are two inherent truths in
the world: life as we know it is over, and monsters are real.
The Pestas came in the night,
spreading their pox, a deadly plague that decimated the population. Kat, one of
the unlucky few who survived, is determined to get to her last living relative
and find shelter from the pox that continues to devastate the world. When it
mutates and becomes airborne, Kat is desperate to avoid people because staying
alone might be her only chance to stay alive.
That is, until she meets Dylan.
Dylan, with his easy smile and dark, curly hair, has nowhere to go and no one
to live for. He convinces Kat there can be safety in numbers, that they can
watch out for each other. So the unlikely couple set off together through the
barren wasteland to find a new life – if they can survive the roaming Pestas,
bands of wild, gun-toting children, and piles of burning, pox-ridden bodies.
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Time of Ruin (Ash and Ruin #2)
Release Date: 07/22/14
Summary from Goodreads:
The world has ended, and hope is the most dangerous thing left.
Battered and bruised after barely escaping San Francisco with their lives, Kat,
Dylan, and Blue press north – desperate to reach the possibility of a new home.
But strange, monstrous ravens are tracking the remaining survivors, food is
becoming scarce, gasoline is running short, and people are becoming suicidal,
making survival almost impossible.
And the Pestas are growing bolder. Somehow, their numbers are growing.
The further north they go, the harder it becomes to ignore the signs that
they’ve made a fatal mistake. Kat must face the impossible truth that there is
no escape, there is no safe haven, and their worst nightmares don’t come close
to their new reality.
Age of Blood (Ash and Ruin #3)
Release Date: 05/05/15
Summary from Goodreads:
Hope is a dangerous thing, but powerful. Hope keeps you going. Hope can
keep you alive.
But hope can shatter your world.
Kat and Dylan have found a home, but the monsters are still out there. The pox
and plague still ravage the world. They have hope of finding a vaccine, but
their encampment isn't equipped to develop it.
Dylan is still too weak from the pox to leave the encampment, so Kat must
decide between staying by his side and protecting her last remaining family
member as he leaves to find supplies. Separated for the first time since they
came together, Kat and Dylan will have to fight their own battles to save what
is left of their bloody world.
Kat will have to hold on to hope that she has anything left to save and someone
to come home to. If she can survive.
From WORLD OF ASH
Those first few
days on the road were the hardest. My body struggled to get use to the strain
of walking all day with thirty pounds weighing me down. Each night, I spent
time stretching and working out the kinks in my back and legs.
When I found the
beach, the salty air rushed around me. It was tainted with the acrid stench of
burning flesh. The beach was dotted with smoldering pyres, bodies piled higher
and higher with each one. I swallowed against the bile rising in my throat and
moved to walk close to the mountains, keeping the sand and highway between me
and the burning, infected bodies.
Though I had to
walk so close to the dead, breathing the smell of cooking flesh and squinting
through the ash in the air, being so far away from houses made me feel a bit
safer. I walked without fear of eyes on me, without wondering if someone was
coming up behind me. I walked for days along the beach until I was sure I was
coming close to Malibu.
I knew Malibu
well. My mother and I weekended there many a time. I was sure I could find some
safe place to hole up for a few days, allow myself to rest and recover and
maybe even find food. In those early days, I went through my food faster than I
should have. With so many hours on my feet, burning through the calories, I’d
told myself to eat to keep myself going. I knew about burning calories and what
I needed to consume to replace that energy, but what I hadn’t accounted for was
the fact that there would be days, even weeks, where I wouldn’t find food no
matter how hard I looked. In short, I was a naive idiot.
But I couldn’t
continue through Malibu on foot because the government had set up a major
roadblock on the highway. Hiding behind an abandoned car, I watched the armed
men in impressive masks and felt sweat on the small of my back despite the
crisp autumn air. Because of that blockade, I was forced to leave the highway
and move into the mountains of Malibu, dotted with million-dollar homes.
Because of that
blockade, I was standing on a hilltop when the jets roared overhead. I watched
as the bombs were dropped over L.A., incinerating the sprawling city. I was so
far away, I didn’t think it would be possible to see the flames. But I did, and
I felt the heat of them. That was the night I mourned my parents.
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Like so many other writers, Shauna grew up as an avid reader, but it was
in high school that she realized she wanted to be a writer. Five years ago,
Shauna started work on her Elemental Series. She released the first
installment, Earth, on May 1, 2011 and has since released four
sequels, with the series coming to an end with Spirit. She is
currently hard at work on a new Urban Fantasy series, staring a spunky witch
with a smush-faced cat named Artemis.
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