After the Parch

<p><strong>It's 2075. California is nothing like we know it.</strong></p><p></p><p>The USA has broken up and California has become an independent refuge dominated by a single omnipotent corporation. Eighteen-year-old Bran a shepherd is given a mission to traverse the California Republic in ten days to save his rural community from forfeiting its land.</p><p></p><p>On the way he teams up with a seventeen-year-old girl who has the skills and prowess of a warrior an eleven-year-old wild boy with uncanny survival skills and a wandering musician with a secret revolutionary agenda. <em>After the Parch</em> is a fast-paced vivid dystopian fantasy with a chilling resemblance to the way we are and a vision of what we might become. It's a well-crafted story and the plot flows naturally from one crisis to another with three-dimensional characters right up to the taut and positive climax.</p>