SUDDEN QUIET BOOK I: ISLAND AND MAIN
Society has collapsed, the modern age has expired, and global mortality is curving toward 99%.
In Northern Michigan, the electrical grid has been down for two years. Three scouts set out on a mission from Beaver Island to the darkened mainland. They’re on a search for allies and information, led by Keith Two-Crow, a Vietnam veteran and Anishinaabe elder. Keith’s two charges, Mukwa and Miin, are foster siblings unrelated by blood but connected to the green-pulse of the planet by their adoptive grandmother, Samantha, a traditional healer and mystic. Reaching the mainland, the scouts are targeted by traffickers, abducted by Eco-Elves and are astonished—as readers will be—at Nature’s resurgence.
Island and Main is a dark exploration of humanity and the hope and healing offered by community and our connection to nature.
SUDDEN QUIET BOOK II: DARK STRAITS
The grid has gone dark, and the planet’s population, cut to the bone. The Mackinac Bridge is the iron key to Michigan. Various groups—Eco-Elves, Virals, Rangers, and Indigenous—battle in Dark Straits for regional control.
In Sudden Quiet: Book II, gangs of Virals are bossed by “Sharkey,” the CEO of Panzer Pharmaceuticals, who seeks to carve out a Great Lakes fiefdom.
Panzer’s ghoulish paramilitary, the Aghori, raid Washington D.C., torture ELF extremists, and sabotage the Line 5 oil pipeline beneath the Straits. Foster siblings, Miin and Mukwa, flex their green powers, channeling nature’s resurgence to combat infection and petro-pollution.
Dark Straits is a thrilling expansion of the trilogy, pushing readers into deep and dangerous waters.
SUDDEN QUIET BOOK III: THE SCOURING
Nature’s green power is scouring Michigan clean—from infection, from warlords, and from the chaos of societal collapse. A Healer has emerged, forging new alliances. Yet the danger—especially for Miin—has never been greater.
In Sudden Quiet: Book III, Panzerland implodes, even as Red Hand militias tighten their grip. Meanwhile, Mukwa and Shaggy journey through Detroit, and the borderlands near Ohio seeking to rescue the ELF extremist, Nighthawk from Dr. Schark. Trouble is brewing back on Beaver Island: a witch has been caught. It is up to the next generation of tree-talkers to save a beloved teacher.
The Scouring is a climatic finish to the Sudden Quiet series, providing readers hope, not just for the dystopian world of the trilogy, but for our own.
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