Shelter in Place

<p style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;font-size:15px;font-family:Calibrisans-serif;'><span style='font-size:16px;font-family:Arial Novasans-serif;'>Aurora Scott was living her best life guiding troubled adolescent girls on wilderness adventures and returning to her Arlington home and supportive husband Peter an NSA analyst. But all that Aurora holds dear is wrenched from her when an aggressive cancer takes Peter and just months later an electro-magnetic pulse attack plunges the United States into a prolonged blackout.</span></p><p style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;font-size:15px;font-family:Calibrisans-serif;'><span style='font-size:16px;font-family:Arial Novasans-serif;'>When even the cabin that Peter had prepared becomes unsafe Aurora finds herself marooned in a hut deep in the George Washington National Forest her survival skills stretched to their limit and her will to survive trickling away.</span></p><p style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;font-size:15px;font-family:Calibrisans-serif;'><span style='font-size:16px;font-family:Arial Novasans-serif;'>In her novel <em>Shelter in Place</em> Maria Bowling offers us a glimpse into the post-apocalyptic future that is as terrifying as it is realistic. In prose that is spare and unflinching Bowling tells a story of a lone woman who loses her family and risks everything to find her place in a world that has left so many behind.</span></p><p style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;font-size:15px;font-family:Calibrisans-serif;'><span style='font-size:16px;font-family:Arial Novasans-serif;'> - Wiley Cash New York Times bestselling author of <em>When Ghosts Come Home.</em></span></p><p style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;font-size:15px;font-family:Calibrisans-serif;'><span style='font-size:16px;font-family:Arial Novasans-serif;'>A woman is alone in the wilderness and the society she left behind is descending into lawlessness. <em>Shelter in Place</em> is a terrific work of imagination sound delivery deft prose and thematic power.</span></p><p style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;font-size:15px;font-family:Calibrisans-serif;'><span style='font-size:16px;font-family:Arial Novasans-serif;'> - Richard Adams Carey author of <em>In the Evil Day</em>.</span></p><p style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;font-size:15px;font-family:Calibrisans-serif;'><em><span style='font-size:16px;font-family:Arial Novasans-serif;'>Shelter in Place</span></em><span style='font-size:16px;font-family:Arial Novasans-serif;'> is a unique novel set in the near post-apocalyptic future. It is one woman's struggle to survive to seek justice to protect those in need and to reclaim her life and identity. Aurora is smart courageous relentless and righteous. She's both a warrior and a nurturer a victim and a winner.</span></p><p style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;font-size:15px;font-family:Calibrisans-serif;'><span style='font-size:16px;font-family:Arial Novasans-serif;'> - Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry author of <em>The Orchard.</em></span></p>