My upcoming book has the key features of a post-apocalyptic thriller: battle, spies, and the desperate alliance of two women from the opposite sides of the war. This is Mad Max- Fury Road in the blood-thirsty, arctic wasteland. The setting is frozen Europe, twenty-five years after the nuclear holocaust. The Russian Federation and The European Union fight each other with nail and teeth.
My heroine is a POW in a post-apocalyptic war. She escapes prison and avoids being blackmailed into becoming a double agent. She roams the northern outback and saves a young enemy woman who will lead her to grave danger- and save her ass. The story has a spiritual heart, and where the rifle clicks on empty, ancient gods and animal spirits rise to save the day.
Read an excerpt: ch. 3: Firing Squad
Read an excerpt: ch. 4: Recruitment
A Multilayered Protagonist- The Story of Rebane Nordstrom
Rebane Nordstrom is a female soldier in the Russian army.
She’s from the Siberian Yamal Peninsula. She’s a Nenets woman who was raised by her Finnish stepdad, Pertti Nordstrom, from the age of four. They survived the nuclear holocaust by hiding in the arctic deserts. Growing up, Rebane seeks adventure and escape. She joins the Russian army in a fight against the European Union. She is imprisoned after a sniping job gone very wrong and immersed in the horrors of interrogation and torture. Rebane struggles to escape from captivity
A new book in the making
Conjurer of Evil is a supernatural thriller and a collaboration of three writers: myself, Schuyler Pulliam and Stephanie Colbert. I write part I:
Elli Becker believes she has landed a dream job as a trainee in the SS Helferinnen women’s Korps. The year is 1941, and seventeen-year-old Elli soon struggles with Nazi ideology as she sees Jewish families evicted and beaten on the streets of Berlin.
A set of supernatural occurrences leads her to trace the demon assassin Marchosias. The race to command The King of Killers starts, but he executes impossible assassinations and escapes without traces. A Jewish man Josef Leinkraum is the only clue, and he went underground to dodge arrest.
Elli sacrifices everything and ends up on the wrong side for a young German woman. The Gestapo agents close in on her.
A teaser from the Conjurer of Evil coming soon!
My new short story Touch of Heaven is on sale at Amazon Kindle
This story takes you on a wonderful Night Safari ride with Siberian Huskies. It captures the essence of the Aurora Borealis and transports you into the magical world of northern Finland.
Check it out!