After the Pretty Pox series by August Ansel (#1-3)
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Overview: August Ansel is the pen name (and alter ego) of author Carla Baku. It’s August who is forever wedging beloved dog-eared novels by Shirley Jackson, Peter Straub, and Joe Hill in among the works of Toni Morrison and Tobias Wolff. Working from a tiny garret overlooking the lovely Myrtle Grove Cemetery, August prefers to write novels longhand while sipping bitterly strong tea and wearing an atrocious pair of bedroom slippers.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy Post-Apocalyptic
After the Pretty Pox (#1)
“It’s worse than that. God will ignore us entirely.”
A searing act of bioterrorism. A catastrophic plague they call the Pretty Pox.
Most of the human race is dead, and for two years Arie McInnes has been alone, riding out the aftermath of the Pretty Pox, waiting for her own inevitable end. Hidden in the attic of her ruined home, Arie survives by wit and skill, ritual and habit.Convinced that humans are a dangerous fluke, a problematic species best allowed to expire, she chooses solitude…even in matters of life and death.
Arie’s precarious world is upended when her youngest brother – a man she’s never met – appears out of nowhere with a badly injured woman. Their presence in the attic draws the attention of a dark watcher in the woods, and Arie is forced to choose between the narrow beliefs that have sustained her and the stubborn instinct to love and protect.
Shadow Road (#2)
Protect the family, best effort, no whining. That’s Papa’s rule
In the aftermath of a devastating pandemic known as the Pretty Pox, Arie McInness and a small group of fellow survivors have been forced from the relative safety of an attic hideaway into the forest, carrying little more than the clothes on their backs.
This second installment of August Ansel’s richly imagined post-apocalyptic series finds Arie and her ragtag family deep in the redwoods. Cold, hungry, and vulnerable, they’re determined to travel on foot to God’s Land–the troubled but familiar homestead in the hills where Arie was raised.
The road home, though, is strange and arduous, littered with other survivors. Discovering which of them are allies–and which are not–is now a matter of life and death.
Valley of Rue (#3)
Let justice be done, though the world perish.
Arie McInnes and her dear tribe struggle to avoid the troubles and oddments of a post-plague world, pushing north through forest and farmland until one dire night when young Kory sustains a dreadful injury.
Desperate for the life of their wounded boy, the group stumbles upon a fortified community. Out of options, they surrender everything except the hope of genuine help from total strangers.
Kory hovers between pain and progress, and the six of them draw close one evening when Arie hints at a tale none of them has heard before. A bond forged with a woman in the woods who calls herself Tuli. Escape from her father’s house into a new life of ritual and retreat.
As late autumn declines toward early winter in the insular town of Hayesville, the mystery of Arie’s life unfolds, and readers are pulled straight into her unwitting connection to the outbreak of the Pretty Pox.
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