Scourge & Seed

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><u>Scourge (Book Zero)</u></strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>They sailed a thousand miles...and were forbidden to come ashore.</em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The year is 2172. The world is mostly water. Marlin Paz and her pregnant girlfriend arrive in the harbor city of Brume after forty-two harrowing days at sea only to find themselves forbidden to go ashore.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Meanwhile Axioma Nation CEO of the world's leading corporation struggles to solve the climate refugee crisis. But when an urgent message from a colleague overseas comes through Axioma realizes that the climate is the least of her worries.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And thousands of miles away in the ravaged heartland of the State Heron Howsley must reckon with her family's legacy and her own demons while facing down tornados and discovering that her love for her hometown runs deeper than she knew...</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><u>Seed (Book 0.5)</u></strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Don't make friends. Don't get murdered.</em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The world is over. The virus took everything. Heron Howsley and her cat Zig Zag flee the tornado-ravaged Alley for a climate refugee camp on the West Coast.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Heron has a hole in her heart the size and shape of the love she just lost and she has only two rules: don't make friends don't get murdered.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But when she spots a lonely hitchhiker on the side of the road she breaks Rule One and stops to pick him up.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>That act sparks a chain of events that forces Heron to reconcile with demons both old and new: the past she thought she'd left behind the sister she thought was dead and the future she may not be a part of.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><u>From the Author</u></strong></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This is a double prequel to the spicy new adult dystopian Thalassic Series. You'll find slow burn romance snarky banter friends-to-lovers and animal companion tropes LGBTQ+ rep (including a W/W scene) and a diverse cast of well-drawn characters.</em></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A HAPPILY-EVER-AFTER LOOK ELSEWHERE.</em></strong></p><p></p>