Escape to the Billows

by Cooper Hill

Overview

Earthquakes rip through the wah-less desert of the Void tearing deep jagged wounds through its heart in a post-apocalyptic dystopian Australia. Racing with the wind and against time, Mika, Stokes and Skoshi rescue stranded prisoners from certain death, running just ahead of escalating disasters that seem to shadow their every turn. Seeking shelter in the Outlander's Enclave on the great salty billows, they are joined by hundreds of drone-vets who've quit their dwellings to follow them on the rumored freedom-track. Skoshi, Mika and Healer Sam uncover ancient clues to a 400-year old riddle and the trail leads to a cache of ancient ships for crossing the billows, with a vast storehouse of knowledge in seafaring, farming, building and freedom to prepare them for a new life in a new land. But ferocious storms and rumors of ancient plagues resurface and as unseen forces drive them to the brink of despair, they are hunted, hounded and threatened by gatherers and Assembly guards. Just as escape appears within their grasp, an all-out assault by the City-brights draws them back into a disintegrating Void, jeopardizing their quest for freedom.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940044805460
Publisher:	Cooper Hill
Publication date:	08/14/2012
Series:	The Spidy Chronicles , #2
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	478 KB

About the Author

Cooper Hill walked out of the dust in a semi-arid desert seeking a wider Universe beyond the beyond. She has worked in surgery as a scrub tech/circulator, a flower shop, chemical plant, bronze foundry, and for 20+ years was a successful bronze artist and writer of prose, showing and selling in venues and galleries across the greater Southwest. In mid-careers, Cooper and her husband took a two and a half year sabbatical with Peace Corps, to work in Burundi, East Africa, where she earned the JFK Volunteer of the Year Services Award (as her second-self, A. Pauwels). She has written a non-fiction book, Turtle Tushies in the Land of Banana Beer, A Peace Corps Memoir, about their adventures in teaching fish-farming among a heart-warming people. Cooper loves the solitude and process of creative writing. She has completed six dystopian future-fiction/sci-fi action-adventure and space opera novels, replete with strong female protagonists, side-kicks, heroines, heroes and an abundant and appropriate number of villains. She enjoys writing/reading, friends, ballroom dancing, painting, sculpting, travel, kayaking and good movies. Cooper currently greets the sun each morning with her fun-loving Mom. They reside on a beautiful tree-covered hill above a quiet valley.