Rebuilding Hope

Lena’s city is changing. Her students fall to gangs. Her husband is consumed by his job of creating and enforcing the rules that strangle her. Staying with him means accepting a life constrained by rules and a slow decline into despair. The world outside might be empty of people, but it’s full of hope and opportunity. If she can reach the farm, Lena will make a better life for herself and anyone who risks it all to join her.

Plagues that ravaged the world’s population are over. Civilization is dying, and brutality is a survival trait. A year after fleeing her home in search of peace and safety, Lena and her friends face a violent enemy who wants to control their small part of the world. They won’t survive alone, but they have nothing to offer to make alliances. Can an old enemy help? Can the past be forgotten to ensure a future?

A flood of desperate people in search of a haven. The threat of a new plague. Trapped between her ex-husband’s betrayal and a cult leader hiding a deadly secret, can Lena survive? All Lena wanted was to live in peace. Her new family struggled to create a home in a disintegrating civilization. The dream was almost in her grasp. Then people fleeing the gang ridden cities come demanding help she can’t give. Brian, her ex-husband, is determined to undermine her family. Scott, her lover, hungers for adventure. And a charismatic leader brings a terrible threat to her doorstep.

The remnants of civilization hang on the edge of collapse. Lena, a former teacher and current leader of a small community, spearheads a risky quest to establish alliances and prevent the gradual slide into chaos. Trust is a scarce commodity in the post-plague world. Every decision Lena makes bears the burden of shaping the future. She embarks on a perilous journey from the lush farmlands of her home to the treacherous west coast, driven by the urgent quest for allies and the looming specter of imminent danger.

Winter is over and Lena is ready to leave the relative safety of Pearl Two, a closed community in Portland. A member of her party is missing. The woman they trusted for months is lying. She can’t be sure of anyone. With each step, she confronts the physical threats lurking in the wilderness and struggles to hold onto her dream of creating alliances to heal their future. Haunted by memories of the past and driven by the hope for a better future, she searches for the strength to built unity from the growing anarchy.