*****This is one hell of a book! -- Amazon reviewer
BUKU!
The series is now complete!
Order your books and get ready to run!
The world has ended. The threat hasn't.
Iris lives in a desperate world. Her village clings to the slopes high in the Rockies, where every day they run from massive beasts known as buku. Designed in a lab, buku were to be the planet’s salvation. Instead, they decimated it.
When her hunting squad crosses paths with strangers, including golden-eyed Oso, her impulsive decision to help them marks her as a traitor. But she must must protect the strangers at all costs. Because they may know how to fight buku.
With this purchase, you also receive BUKU: Micah's Story. The prequel novella takes you back to the moment Micah realized that the test-tube creatures designed to save the world were evolving into beasts that could destroy it.
This darkness is deep enough to drown in.
Camp Five finally has a weapon against the test-tube beasts that brought about the apocalypse. But Oso and Micah are in danger. Iris urges her reluctant squad to brave the buku and travel to a new community, a place steeped in shadows and a hidden malignancy. There she finds allies and enemies and a fear that threatens to bury her.
Everyone she loves is entombed in a mountain, and none of them may survive.
The exciting conclusion of the BUKU trilogy!
Iris, Oso, Micah, and their found family head west in search of a home where they can be safe and free. But no sooner do they step out of the mountains than they encounter a new kind of predator. Beasts that even buku run from.
The harrowing journey reunites Micah with lost family and an old love, but it puts them all at the mercy of the creator of buku - Dr. Buddy Givens. He claims Oso can be healed and Micah redeemed. But can the man who broke the world be trusted with its future?
Run with Iris and her team as they resolve to fight for hope. Or die trying.
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I I cut my teeth on Stephen King. Not because I like horror. In fact, I slept with the lights on after reading “It” and “The Shining”. But I was enticed by his stories, his power to make me turn page after page into the wee hours of the morning, his ability to paint outlandish worlds that seemed so real. And his words. I loved his words.
It was my 6th (and 7th) grade language arts teacher, Mr. Rhine, who first made me feel like a writer. He encouraged me and challenged me as he had us writing short stories and term papers. And so it was in junior high that I decided I wanted to write. Like Stephen King.
And I did become a writer. Though not of fiction. With a degree from the University of Illinois’ advertising program, I got a job at an advertising agency, a couple of television stations, and finally at famed WSM Radio in Nashville, TN. I liked writing copy, and I was decent at it. Eventually I moved onto writing a nationally syndicated country music radio show. I wrote and produced The Crook and Chase Countdown for more than 15 years.
But what I really wanted to do was write like Stephen King. In 2008, my husband and I decided we were at a point where I could quit my full-time job to go freelance. Or as a friend calls it, I became self-unemployed. Actually, I did well enough for the first few years, continuing to work with Crook & Chase, as well as on projects for American Country Countdown with Kix Brooks and The Blair Garner show. Several years ago, I finally pushed past my doubts and fears and started my debut novel. It took me three years of fits and starts to finally finish it.
But I did. And then I did it again. And now... I've finally completed my BUKU trilogy. These aren't horror novels, but there are monsters! And action. And suspense. I’m quite sure it’s not as good as anything written by Stephen King. That’s alright. I’m just pleased to finally be able to say to that timid girl in 6th grade – “Look what we did.”
