Book Description

FIRE FREED HIM FROM PRISON... AND ORPHANED HER. THEY'LL NEED EACH OTHER IF THEY'RE BOTH GOING TO SURVIVE. Zander Hollis lost everything when he was unfairly tried and convicted of a murder he knows in his heart he couldn't have committed. His wife refuses to speak to him because of it, and he worries that his son won't remember who he is when his seven-year sentence has been completed. After a deadly wildfire forces the emergency evacuation of the Coujee Valley State Penitentiary halfway through Zander's sentence, he unexpectedly finds himself set free by a long-time prison guard sympathetic to Zander's need to find his brother, who was lost fleeing the rapidly spreading blaze. But not everyone is happy with the decision, including Zander's cellmate and a junior correctional officer with dubious connections to a dangerous prison gang and a vendetta he's determined to carry out. When Zander crosses paths with Willa May Sams, a fiercely independent 14-year-old orphaned by the same fire, the two clash over the seemingly unbridgeable generational divide. They'll need to work together or else risk losing everything. Unfortunately, the feds are now on Zander's trail... And they've been authorized to use deadly force to bring Zander back to justice. Run Boy Run is the second book in the visionary climate fiction (cli-fi) series SCORCHED EARTH, a near-future, survival "what-if" that's both mystery and hard-hitting suspense thriller. The story continues as Zander finds himself in the sights of a deadly pursuer. As he makes his way closer to home through a mountainous region of remote rural communities devastated by wildfire and lacking even the most basic infrastructure, Zander must avoid the deadly mobs that have emerged to exploit the chaos. In the SCORCHED EARTH sequence, best-selling post-apocalyptic author Saul Tanpepper explores what might happen if rapidly accelerating global warming destabilizes the climate enough to trigger a catastrophic cascade that will ultimately bring the world to its knees. How will local and national governments act, when more and more of the nation’s infrastructure fails? Who will rise up? Who will lead? And who will fall? Ask yourself, under these conditions, would you survive? This gripping, natural and manmade disaster survival thriller series is for fans of T.L. Payne, Kyla Stone, Ryan Schow, Grace Hamilton, Frank Horton, and A. American. * * Rated 16+ for moderate situational language and violence. * * Look for the following SCORCHED EARTH titles, available now or on pre-order: Fire on the Mountain Run Boy Run The Devil's House The Rising Son Current and future series in the CLIMATE COLLAPSE disaster survival sequence include: Scorched Earth Drowned Earth Fractured Earth Shrouded Earth Frozen Earth Saul Tanpepper is the author of the post-apocalyptic survival series BUNKER 12, and its companion series, THE FLENSE, which together tell the story of the run-up and consequences of a deadly global plague and who might be behind it.