Two years after an EMP strike plunged America into a new dark age, the survivors of Vashon Island have done the impossible: they have endured.
But as the second anniversary of the collapse arrives, a literal trial by fire descends as a massive wildfire sweeps across the island, threatening to turn their hard-won sanctuary into ash. For militia leader Niko Williams and the other islanders, the fire is only the beginning of a new struggle for independence. He finds himself facing a new battle, this time political, with a newly risen local government bent on acquiring nearby communities into its fold, offering stability at the cost of the island's fundamental autonomy.
Meanwhile, a darker shadow looms to the north. Kiera Williams, Niko’s one-eyed warrior daughter, is no longer a child of the old world. At eighteen, she is the tip of the spear, leading a hand-picked extraction team into the charred ruins of Port Townsend to secure revolutionary water-harvesting technology. But the ghost town has become the hunting ground of a former lawman turned tyrannical warlord who rules a plantation of slaves from his fortified island stronghold.
Vashon Island Rises is the gripping first novel in the Second Era: Shattered Remains series. As a direct sequel to Vashon Island Fall and a new chapter in the October Fall World saga, MJ Witt weaves a tale of resurgence and unbreakable resilience. From the roar of a wood-gas ferry to the defiant ring of the blacksmith’s anvil, the islanders are rising to prove that while the old world died in the EMP, a new one is being forged in fire and sweat.
Genre: Science Fiction
But as the second anniversary of the collapse arrives, a literal trial by fire descends as a massive wildfire sweeps across the island, threatening to turn their hard-won sanctuary into ash. For militia leader Niko Williams and the other islanders, the fire is only the beginning of a new struggle for independence. He finds himself facing a new battle, this time political, with a newly risen local government bent on acquiring nearby communities into its fold, offering stability at the cost of the island's fundamental autonomy.
Meanwhile, a darker shadow looms to the north. Kiera Williams, Niko’s one-eyed warrior daughter, is no longer a child of the old world. At eighteen, she is the tip of the spear, leading a hand-picked extraction team into the charred ruins of Port Townsend to secure revolutionary water-harvesting technology. But the ghost town has become the hunting ground of a former lawman turned tyrannical warlord who rules a plantation of slaves from his fortified island stronghold.
Vashon Island Rises is the gripping first novel in the Second Era: Shattered Remains series. As a direct sequel to Vashon Island Fall and a new chapter in the October Fall World saga, MJ Witt weaves a tale of resurgence and unbreakable resilience. From the roar of a wood-gas ferry to the defiant ring of the blacksmith’s anvil, the islanders are rising to prove that while the old world died in the EMP, a new one is being forged in fire and sweat.
Genre: Science Fiction
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