Icehaven
Sum
of All Tears Book 1
by
Kim Cresswell & M.K. Chester
Genre:
Post-Apocalyptic Dystopian, Paranormal
They
said it wouldn't happen.
Everything would be better.
They
were wrong.
After
a climate change experiment goes terribly wrong, August Madison,
finds herself resurrected in a frozen wasteland.
With
most of the world's population and food sources annihilated, depraved
nomadic gangs patrol the lawless landscape as outlasters claw for
survival.
Amid
the chaos, Graysen Marx, iron-fisted leader of the domed settlement
Liberty, emerges from the catastrophic event with his own
agenda.
When
August crosses his path, he sees an opportunity he must exploit.
She
sees an evil she must destroy.
Fans
of The Day after Tomorrow, The Handmaid's Tale, Mad Max, and The
Hunger Games are sure to enjoy this enthralling post apocalyptic
dystopian adventure with a paranormal twist.
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CHAPTER ONE
August
Madison glanced at her watch, then back at her father, her shoulders tight with
anxiety. “Minus seven minutes.”
Anticipation
flickered in his blue eyes as he smiled and watched the images of the dozens of
military aircraft taking off from various airports throughout the United States
and around the world on the mammoth digital screen inside the university’s
largest auditorium.
As
chief climatologist of the International Climate Change Initiative, he believed
he’d finally discovered the answer to the world’s most pressing issue. With the
oceans growing more acidic, dozens of animal and plant species becoming
extinct, and the atmosphere ten degrees higher than a decade ago, widespread
catastrophic weather events, each more violent and deadly than the one before
had increased. Hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, droughts, and horrific
flooding due to rising sea levels had caused the destruction of some nations
and continued to kill millions around the globe.
All
of that was about to change.
“Can
you check on Luke and Chloe?” her father asked under the increasing commotion
surrounding them. “They should be here by now.”
August
frowned at the cause of her stress. She wasn’t surprised by her brother’s
tardiness. He was always late, an eighteen-year-old who had an excuse for
everything. All he had to do was pick up their younger sister from school and
show up on time for their father’s shining moment. Just be on time for once. Do
what was expected. One time.
“I’ll
call him.” August snatched her phone out of the back pocket of her jeans and
hit speed dial. He finally answered on the fourth ring, right before voicemail
kicked in. “Where are you? You’re late.”
“Chloe
was poky leaving class.”
August
rolled her eyes, knowing her brother had been up all night playing video games
with his friends. She’d bet her Yale tuition he’d been sleeping and hadn’t
gotten up in time. “Hurry up, Dad’s asking for you.”
“I’m
pulling into the university parking lot. Wow, there’s a ton of people here. I
didn’t know this was such a big deal.”
She
checked her watch again. Five minutes.
“You’ve known your whole life how important this is to him.”
“I’ll
be there in two minutes.”
August
ended the call and forced a smile for her father. “They’ll be here soon.”
He
nodded and put his arm around her shoulder. “I don’t want them to miss it. This
will be a story you’ll tell your own children one day.”
She
smiled, imagining a future where the climate wasn’t the dominant issue of the
day. Her father hadn’t been this happy in a long time. Five years almost to the
day her mother had passed away, he deserved some happiness.
While
the auditorium filled to standing room only with faculty, students and media,
excitement buzzed in the air. Her father really was about to make history, his
experiment, his hard work, bringing them to this moment. She took a seat in the
front row beside him and looked up at the screen. A low hum caught her
attention. Unsure where the sound came from, she glanced over her shoulder,
searching for her brother and sister, disappointed that Luke would probably be
too late. The humming grew louder. August covered her ears, the high-pitched
deafening sound too much.
An
earth-shattering boom savagely rocked the auditorium.
The
tile floor cracked and shifted under her feet. The seismic force catapulted her
out of the seat, slamming her left shoulder and the side of her head into the
floor with a hollow whump. Dazed, August staggered to her knees, then to her
feet and reached for her father’s hand, mere inches away through the smoke and
dust. She couldn’t get to him.
Phantom outlines of people bumped into her,
scurrying by, searching for an exit. Screams, sobs, and moans filled her head.
Blistering heat ripped through the room, as if the atmosphere was being sucked
out by a high-powered vacuum. Her heart thrashed in
her chest.
Where were Luke and
Chloe?
She fought back tears as panic drove deep into her bones.
Stretching out her arm, she reached for her
father again and struggled against the growing clatters and groans.
A gale-force wind rumbled like a freight train, and the building
blew apart.
“Daddy!”
Chunks
of debris pelted down around her.
August
tripped on something, maybe someone, and landed flat
on her back. While she gasped for each painful, labored breath, electrical
wires popped and sizzled around her and shot fiery particles everywhere.
Overhead, a metal beam swung wildly in her direction, like a giant
pendulum. A
pungent, suffocating odor, similar
to lighting a million matches, filled her nostrils. An acidic taste touched the
tip of her tongue and burned the back of her throat. Muffled quiet descended
over her. The world blurred.
Then
came the cold.
A young woman, twenty-two-year-old August Madison wakes up
in a frozen world. Everything around her has turned to ice. How she got there
or how she survived is a mystery to her. August meets a group of people who
take her in and give her socks for her feet, oven mittens for her hands and a
head band for her head to help her fight the cold.
August is lucky that this particular group of people found
her and took her in as there are more people out there who would hurt her and
even kill her if she had anything they wanted. They come in attack and take
whatever they want whenever they want.
August and her friends have the opportunity of meeting
another group of people who seem nice on the surface but what is underneath may
just be a totally different story. A friend of August’s from way past is a member
of this new group of people. August and Brandon have always been friends but
when her mother passed things changed for her and they drifted apart.
At their new location with Liberty things are not as they
seem. There are secrets hidden behind the walls of Liberty. Families are separated,
the sick and the weak disappear, and people are banished for practically
nothing and sent out into the freezing cold to survive on their own. What is
going on behind the walls of Liberty? What are they hiding? Can August,
Brandon, John, Snow and the rest of their alliance find the answers they are
looking for? Can they find out what is going on in Liberty? Can they survive
not only the freezing cold but what is coming?
Icehaven caught my attention from the first page and never
let go. It kept me glued to its pages with everyone fighting for their lives
and trying to survive the cold along with what was going on inside of Liberty
the secrets and the special abilities that were being discovered among the
people.
Icehaven was a very intense and engrossing read with all the
secrets and the mystery as well as the twists. Icehaven had so many emotions
swirling around with the sadness, the hate, the selfishness, and the love, the
pain I mean there were times where I would feel like hitting someone and times
where I wanted to cry. Once I picked it up I didn’t want to put it down until I
had read the last page and even now I want more. I want more of this world of
Icehaven. I want to see what happens next for our band of survivors.
I really enjoyed reading Icehaven and would definitely recommend
it to all fans of the paranormal, dystopia, post-apocalyptic, and science
fiction.
Liberty
Sum
of All Tears Book 2
A
new enemy rises.
Surviving
the cold is only the beginning.
In
the second installment of the exciting Sum of all Tears series, a
core group of survivors from Liberty travel to Boston, endangering
themselves and those they left behind in a winner-takes-all showdown
that will leave readers breathless.
Fans
of The Day after Tomorrow, The Handmaid's Tale, Mad Max, and The
Hunger Games are sure to enjoy this enthralling post apocalyptic
dystopian adventure with a paranormal twist.
Kim
Cresswell resides in Ontario, Canada and is the bestselling and
award-winning author of the action-packed WHITNEY STEEL series.
Her
romantic thriller, Reflection (A Whitney Steel Novel –
Book One), has won numerous awards including RomCon®’s 2014
Readers’ Crown Finalist (Romantic Suspense), InD’tale Magazine
2014 Rone Award Finalist (Suspense/Thriller), UP Authors Fiction
Challenge Winner, Silicon Valley’s Romance Writers of America (RWA)
“Gotcha” contest. Kim also signed a 3-book German
translation deal with LUZIFER Verlag for the first three books in the
series: Reflection, Retribution and Resurrect. Lethal
Journey won RomCon®’s 2014 Readers’ Crown (Thriller).
The
Assassin Chronicles TV series was in development with Council Tree
Productions. The TV series is based on Kim’s upcoming 4-book
paranormal/supernatural thriller series: Deadly Shadow (May
2018), Invisible Truth, Assassin’s Prophecy, and Vision
of Fire.
M.K.
Chester is an RWA award-winning author of historical and
contemporary romance. Her first novel, Surrender to the Roman,
is currently published with Carina Press. Her three-book historical
series, Bryeton Books, focuses on love, loss and redemption in small
town America at the turn of the 20th century, while her latest
release, Crashed, is the first book in the contemporary New
South Series.
M.K.
is a native Buckeye who lives in Tennessee. She’s married to a
veteran, recently became a MoM (Mother of Marine), and will soon
become a grandmother. She adores her Scottish Terriers and is
fighting MS.
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