World of Novo: Ridge Lake

A World of Novo Novel:Ridge Lake Series : Book 01: Beth By Katrin GreeneIn the city-state of Taliville, Elizabet Gibson, accountant, is both grateful and bored. She was barely twelve when the skies fell in. Her father and aunts are still alive and relatively healthy. She has a job at Phyonplex- a soy-glass manufacturing plant.She's grateful to have a paying job, her own minuscule apartment that costs most of her monthly pay, and her best friend, Ashley Monahan. They shop. Go for drinks at Cosgrove's Bar. And life seems like what she remembers from her mother's lifetime.The friends, eager to see something new, take a daring trip to the country in an armored bus to the little township of Ridge Lake. Elizabet comes home to find that her apartment has been broken into, her landlord up in arms and about to massively fine her on top of raising her rent, and trying to find a way to keep her life intact so that she does not wind up on the streets avoiding indent gangs, or worse… having to live with either one of her snobby, elitist aunts. Both of whom are trying to breed her off to "enhance the right kind of DNA." All while harboring a dangerous secret.Jordan Kearney, retired Sergeant Grand Master of the Guard and now Chief of Police in Ridge Lake, a title he scoffs at since he's the only cop in nearly three hundred miles outside the City-State, has kept his focus on keeping his little family and township safe and alive from a deadly raider by the name of Eli. He has no idea about the terrorist that has an eye on his home town. The absolute chaos Elizabet is about to spark in his life. The number of laws, the ones Jordan swore on his life to uphold, that he's going to have to break. Under the noses of his old unit. Hi. My pen name is Katrin Greene.I have lived most of my life as an office manager, accountant, auditor, math-geek, and applications specialist. Sometimes this has been in someone's garage. Sometimes, a cube farm. That's my "work life."The life inside my brain??? Well, that's a bit different. A friend once told me its like watching glitterbombs go off like fireworks.My current worlds:The World of Novo: a post-apocalyptic world, twenty years later, and how much fun some people bring into the world.Haven Point: A semi-rookie police officer and her dog in the Adirondacks trying to pay off her student loans and deal with a mother that is gender-biased and trying to marry her off…See you around the stacks sometime! Welcome to Ridge Lake, a small farming community about an hour's drive north of the City-State of Taliville. There, you can visit The Co-op, Yugi's Tavern, or Terry's Cafe. Just be careful not to walk to closely next to the jacketed oxen. Meet this fun cheesecakey apocalyptic world where one day you might be simply sitting behind your desk and the next, outrunning goats and potatoes.The Beginning: Twenty years previous, the City Elite call it Fallen Stars. When scientists decided to change the year calendar from A.D. to N.M. Novo Mutanis…. When the satellites fell, crashing into the land, sea, volcanoes and bio-research stations, releasing a deadly combination of toxic chemicals, diseases, and radiation into the sky. The water… all the water in the world is now acidic. Burning to exposed skin. It has to be purified to be usable. Life on Earth is still struggling to rise. Living in the city means protection from the acid rain. It also means high taxes, high rent, and high prices for the most basic needs. Rainbow Bloods, they are called. Whispered by those who survived wars, starvation, terrorists, disease, and cancer. Those who are different, mutated, are feared.

A World of Novo Novel: Ridge Lake Series: Book 02: Rowanby Katrin GreeneIn a world of raiders, indent gangs, and acid rain, a sleepy little town is no longer safe…With his daughter Elizabet nearly dying and now not speaking to him, Myles Gibson has some tough decisions to make. His family is torn apart. His promise to his dead wife broken by the very people he'd counted on to help him keep it. With his life obliterated by one selfish act, how would he survive? Survive. And maybe find a way to reconnect with the daughter he loves beyond reason. Myles knows he's been lucky. Has it finally run out? Or does he go for the brass ring?Rowan's been watching a tortured Myles Gibson sit in her bar, Yugi's, day after day. Dealing with reporters and his shrewish, demanding sister. His life, along with his daughter Elizabet's, played out on national TV for everyone to see.While the influx of cash is an answer to her troubles, having that many reporters underfoot at the tavern is making life difficult. As if she didn't have enough to deal with, her ex-husband, Eli, is rearing his ugly head. Again. They've been warring for a decade. He wants Yugi's for himself.Eli's a well-known local raider. His reputation is fierce enough, with several murders, kidnappings, and arson under his belt to back up his threats. Rowan, however, hasn't backed down yet. Much to her sort-of brother Jordan's awe and dismay.With the feud blowing up again, after the poisoning of Sisihall Creek and near murder of Elizabet Gibson, the reporters aren't going anywhere soon. There's too much news in such a little country town.With the Guard and reporters everywhere, will Rowan be able to keep Yugi's secrets? The ones passed down to her from generations? Or will Eli finally win and blow her to pieces? Hi. My pen name is Katrin Greene.I have lived most of my life as an office manager, accountant, auditor, math-geek, and applications specialist. Sometimes this has been in someone's garage. Sometimes, a cube farm. That's my "work life."The life inside my brain??? Well, that's a bit different. A friend once told me its like watching glitterbombs go off like fireworks.My current worlds:The World of Novo: a post-apocalyptic world, twenty years later, and how much fun some people bring into the world.Haven Point: A semi-rookie police officer and her dog in the Adirondacks trying to pay off her student loans and deal with a mother that is gender-biased and trying to marry her off…See you around the stacks sometime! Welcome to Ridge Lake, a small farming community about an hour's drive north of the City-State of Taliville. There, you can visit The Co-op, Yugi's Tavern, or Terry's Cafe. Just be careful not to walk to closely next to the jacketed oxen. Meet this fun cheesecakey apocalyptic world where one day you might be simply sitting behind your desk and the next, outrunning goats and potatoes.The Beginning: Twenty years previous, the City Elite call it Fallen Stars. When scientists decided to change the year calendar from A.D. to N.M. Novo Mutanis…. When the satellites fell, crashing into the land, sea, volcanoes and bio-research stations, releasing a deadly combination of toxic chemicals, diseases, and radiation into the sky. The water… all the water in the world is now acidic. Burning to exposed skin. It has to be purified to be usable. Life on Earth is still struggling to rise. Living in the city means protection from the acid rain. It also means high taxes, high rent, and high prices for the most basic needs. Rainbow Bloods, they are called. Whispered by those who survived wars, starvation, terrorists, disease, and cancer. Those who are different, mutated, are feared.

A World of Novo Novel: Ridge Lake Series: Book 03: Ash by Katrin GreeneIn a world of raiders, indent gangs, and acid rain, hiding a dangerous secret continues… Ashley comes seeking her best friend, Elizabet, when she runs into trouble inside the City-State of Taliville. She is damaged, inside and out, never to be the same again. All she knows is that her life, as she has known it, is over. Ashley knows there is trouble in Ridge Lake. But she knows nothing of the Daughter-Father Gibson Duo's secret. Only that a country cop, Elizabet's boyfriend Jordan, could very well be her only protection. Only that the two people she has ever been able to count on are somehow mixed in with the terrorist problems that began her own troubles…More heads her way as neither of the Gibson's have room for Ash, obscuring their own problems, and she is hidden away in Neil's apartment, to be guarded by a Massachussett's Sniper- the very one both the townsfolk of Ridge Lake and the mass public call insane and dangerous. Hi. My pen name is Katrin Greene.I have lived most of my life as an office manager, accountant, auditor, math-geek, and applications specialist. Sometimes this has been in someone's garage. Sometimes, a cube farm. That's my "work life."The life inside my brain??? Well, that's a bit different. A friend once told me its like watching glitterbombs go off like fireworks.My current worlds:The World of Novo: a post-apocalyptic world, twenty years later, and how much fun some people bring into the world.Haven Point: A semi-rookie police officer and her dog in the Adirondacks trying to pay off her student loans and deal with a mother that is gender-biased and trying to marry her off…See you around the stacks sometime! Welcome to Ridge Lake, a small farming community about an hour's drive north of the City-State of Taliville. There, you can visit The Co-op, Yugi's Tavern, or Terry's Cafe. Just be careful not to walk to closely next to the jacketed oxen. Meet this fun cheesecakey apocalyptic world where one day you might be simply sitting behind your desk and the next, outrunning goats and potatoes.The Beginning: Twenty years previous, the City Elite call it Fallen Stars. When scientists decided to change the year calendar from A.D. to N.M. Novo Mutanis…. When the satellites fell, crashing into the land, sea, volcanoes and bio-research stations, releasing a deadly combination of toxic chemicals, diseases, and radiation into the sky. The water… all the water in the world is now acidic. Burning to exposed skin. It has to be purified to be usable. Life on Earth is still struggling to rise. Living in the city means protection from the acid rain. It also means high taxes, high rent, and high prices for the most basic needs. Rainbow Bloods, they are called. Whispered by those who survived wars, starvation, terrorists, disease, and cancer. Those who are different, mutated, are feared.

In a world of raiders, indent gangs, and acid rain, hiding a dangerous secret gets bigger…Gabe Alder, Sargent Master Mechanic of the Guard, is restless.His closest friends are keeping secrets. He's been stuck in Ridge Lake for weeks. And he doesn't know why they don't just bump this Eli fellow off and be done with it. He sees the need for the Guard to be present. But not his unit. His heart is torn: leave the elderly woman he has come very attached to and leave the township unprotected or stay and give up everything he has come to understand life to be. What he had thought would be a two-week assignment seems to be going on indefinitely. He doesn't know if he can stand to be around Jordan anymore. New orders come, several times a day, pulling him to pieces. He is becoming to hate his brother and best friend, Oak, the current First of Unit 23. His life twists… and turns… and burns…Kyla has been told for years to be afraid of everything. To run. To hide. That she is incapable of dealing with anything more strenuous than a mop. Until a giant of a man comes and kicks the crap out of a lot of bad people who came to shoot up her home. Life is simple for her. Or it had been. Change comes, every day, with her brother Travis and adopted mother, Rowan, and a new man, Myles. The memories of a horrible night, when her family was killed becomes too much. Hi. My pen name is Katrin Greene.I have lived most of my life as an office manager, accountant, auditor, math-geek, and applications specialist. Sometimes this has been in someone's garage. Sometimes, a cube farm. That's my "work life."The life inside my brain??? Well, that's a bit different. A friend once told me its like watching glitterbombs go off like fireworks.My current worlds:The World of Novo: a post-apocalyptic world, twenty years later, and how much fun some people bring into the world.Haven Point: A semi-rookie police officer and her dog in the Adirondacks trying to pay off her student loans and deal with a mother that is gender-biased and trying to marry her off…See you around the stacks sometime! Welcome to Ridge Lake, a small farming community about an hour's drive north of the City-State of Taliville. There, you can visit The Co-op, Yugi's Tavern, or Terry's Cafe. Just be careful not to walk to closely next to the jacketed oxen. Meet this fun cheesecakey apocalyptic world where one day you might be simply sitting behind your desk and the next, outrunning goats and potatoes.The Beginning: Twenty years previous, the City Elite call it Fallen Stars. When scientists decided to change the year calendar from A.D. to N.M. Novo Mutanis…. When the satellites fell, crashing into the land, sea, volcanoes and bio-research stations, releasing a deadly combination of toxic chemicals, diseases, and radiation into the sky. The water… all the water in the world is now acidic. Burning to exposed skin. It has to be purified to be usable. Life on Earth is still struggling to rise. Living in the city means protection from the acid rain. It also means high taxes, high rent, and high prices for the most basic needs. Rainbow Bloods, they are called. Whispered by those who survived wars, starvation, terrorists, disease, and cancer. Those who are different, mutated, are feared.

Willow comes from the sewers of Taliville. Deep in the sewers. She and her tiny family have lived outside, in dumpsters, with rats, in alleys, attics of bars, and crowded common rooms where fifteen people try to fit into a ten by twelve space. Her two jobs are in the category of the most dangerous: housekeeper and cook. The former means that her skin comes in contact with harsh chemicals, sewage, disease, and rotten food. The latter means that if she is caught outside, on the city streets, chances are she will be murdered. Because she knows how and where to find food in the most unlikely of places.The only thing that has kept her somewhat safe is that no one wants to touch her. Willow is mutant. Rainbow Blood.Mattie, fearing for both her daughters, since Ivy has a lung disease and may not survive and Willow has a new price on her head, decides to take Ashley's plea for help seriously and as a means of escape. Even into a warzone.Brogan Duncan LaBrelle has been shot. Again. After a possibly crippling fall out of the attic at Yugi's, he is told he may never walk again. No one says it. The word. Cripple. But he sees the looks of pity, the dodges, the lack of reassurance. From everyone except Rowan, Ashley, and this new woman he doesn't even know.His promising career in the Guard was literally shot to hell out of jealousy and spite. Ashley's mouth and inexperience now has him under investigative review. On top of being lame, he is also told he may be discharged for repeatedly disobeying orders, and if found guilty, he will receive no medical assistance once the surgery to save his life is completed.He has nowhere to go. No means of survival outside of the Guard. His brothers, Matthew and Pete, lost the family farm. LaBrelle managed to make a new life for them with Mrs. Latterly, but being a cripple will prevent him from adding his back to the hard work it takes to run a farm. As bad as it had been before he joined the Guard, in a matter of a year, all of his options for a better life shattered and now, he faces a lifetime of near starvation and helplessness. Hi. My pen name is Katrin Greene.I have lived most of my life as an office manager, accountant, auditor, math-geek, and applications specialist. Sometimes this has been in someone's garage. Sometimes, a cube farm. That's my "work life."The life inside my brain??? Well, that's a bit different. A friend once told me its like watching glitterbombs go off like fireworks.My current worlds:The World of Novo: a post-apocalyptic world, twenty years later, and how much fun some people bring into the world.Haven Point: A semi-rookie police officer and her dog in the Adirondacks trying to pay off her student loans and deal with a mother that is gender-biased and trying to marry her off…See you around the stacks sometime! Welcome to Ridge Lake, a small farming community about an hour's drive north of the City-State of Taliville. There, you can visit The Co-op, Yugi's Tavern, or Terry's Cafe. Just be careful not to walk to closely next to the jacketed oxen. Meet this fun cheesecakey apocalyptic world where one day you might be simply sitting behind your desk and the next, outrunning goats and potatoes.The Beginning: Twenty years previous, the City Elite call it Fallen Stars. When scientists decided to change the year calendar from A.D. to N.M. Novo Mutanis…. When the satellites fell, crashing into the land, sea, volcanoes and bio-research stations, releasing a deadly combination of toxic chemicals, diseases, and radiation into the sky. The water… all the water in the world is now acidic. Burning to exposed skin. It has to be purified to be usable. Life on Earth is still struggling to rise. Living in the city means protection from the acid rain. It also means high taxes, high rent, and high prices for the most basic needs. Rainbow Bloods, they are called. Whispered by those who survived wars, starvation, terrorists, disease, and cancer. Those who are different, mutated, are feared.

In a world of raiders, indent gangs, and acid rain, surviving a hidden secret is everything…Juliana Hawthorne has traveled nearly seven hundred miles to get her family away from the western border of the Eastern States and the DMZ She answered a request by her ex-lover Sergeant Master Gabriel Alder to become the new vet in Ridge Lake. What the rest of Gabe's friends don't know is that they've remained in contact after their disastrous breakup.She has no desire to begin anew with Gabe. What she wants is to keep her family alive. She accepts the offer to re-settle, well away from the border, with a Guard escort from the Double Six in Lima, Ohio straight to Ridge Lake, where she will start over. She will. Her family will start over. Her brother, Greg, adopted brother, Cody, nephew Sean, and Del. They will…Something two members of her travel group certainly don't care about. Josie and Michael have been inserted into her "family" all because her brother got in with the black market. During the trip, she has been threatened, her family has been threatened, though they don't know it, and her dreams have begun to shatter.At the age of 23, Brogan Alden OpCar is on the old side to have begun his military career. He has left his family . Not out of poverty. Out of one of the worst forms of betrayal one can endure. While risking his life to begin hire-out work in order to secure heart medicine for his Aunt Edelle, his sister got involved with his then girlfriend, Andy. Ve had wanted them to split up, her brother to settle down, and begin breeding children to fatten the family ranks. Returning home, he found that Andy may have found a solution to in a bad family situation and gave in to her wishes to break up. The one person in his village to, even if partially, understand and accept him for who he was. He found that his mother had used his odd, social awkwardness as a means to control his over-bearing sisters. He decided that finally giving in to his own thirst for knowledge and curiosity of the world was better than… He can't even bear the thought.His SubUnit Commander, Sergeant Master Alder, asked him to complete a secret mission: to become a target for the Slave Trader Eli while on assignment as the head of security for the new town vet, Juliana Hawthorne. He has trained hard for this mission, away from the knowledge of his two bag buddies, Ter Whickman and Pete Tucker– two men who have become as dear to him as his birth family. He risks everything to ensure survival is even possible. Hi. My pen name is Katrin Greene.I have lived most of my life as an office manager, accountant, auditor, math-geek, and applications specialist. Sometimes this has been in someone's garage. Sometimes, a cube farm. That's my "work life."The life inside my brain??? Well, that's a bit different. A friend once told me its like watching glitterbombs go off like fireworks.My current worlds:The World of Novo: a post-apocalyptic world, twenty years later, and how much fun some people bring into the world.Haven Point: A semi-rookie police officer and her dog in the Adirondacks trying to pay off her student loans and deal with a mother that is gender-biased and trying to marry her off…See you around the stacks sometime! Welcome to Ridge Lake, a small farming community about an hour's drive north of the City-State of Taliville. There, you can visit The Co-op, Yugi's Tavern, or Terry's Cafe. Just be careful not to walk to closely next to the jacketed oxen. Meet this fun cheesecakey apocalyptic world where one day you might be simply sitting behind your desk and the next, outrunning goats and potatoes.The Beginning: Twenty years previous, the City Elite call it Fallen Stars. When scientists decided to change the year calendar from A.D. to N.M. Novo Mutanis…. When the satellites fell, crashing into the land, sea, volcanoes and bio-research stations, releasing a deadly combination of toxic chemicals, diseases, and radiation into the sky. The water… all the

In a world of raiders, indent gangs, and acid rain, discovering a hidden secret means betrayal…Bryn has been an alpaca farmer, wool carder, and jam maker in Ridge Lake. Her little sister, Libbie, and she fight, every day. Throughout the day. Every day. She has spent the last twelve years, since their mother abandoned them in the middle of winter, scraping to survive. She rises each day before the sunrise and goes to bed every night around midnight. She has scrapped, hard, herself, her sister, her house, to keep a roof over her and Libbie's heads, and food in their bellies, despite having to learn everything the hard way, and her four jobs just to keep things afloat.. And one morning, it is all nearly taken away by a nefarious poacher…Sergeant Grand Master Commander, Sergeant Master Med Darrock Holmes, to use his shortened title now that he has been demoted, has been spinning out of control for eight months. More than eight months. His murderous, adulterous, dead, almost-ex-wife, Sylvie, has just been the tip of the ice, stabbing deep into his heart, mind, and soul.His three brothers, Gabe, Stew, and Jordan, are all out of his daily life. He is surrounded by strangers, packed in a hospital of all places, demoted, no longer in charge of the unit that had been his for the previous five years, and his life is spinning even further out of control.He is aware of the plots against himself and Gabe. He is aware of the deep break between all four of them. Discovering Jordan and Gabe's secret nearly pushes him over the edge. This on top of the multiple needs of Ridge Lake and several of the Brogans, who have become critically injured. He is caught between the Military Review Board and the Upper Echelon. He has brought Med Unit 104 to Ridge Lake to deal with incoming casualties, as they are, slowly, cutting off Eli's escape.He has discovered a kindred spirit in Chief Tek, a fellow Med who has a similar skill set, and it soothes away the betrayal of his star protégé, Abigail Sheppard.And in walks Bryn… A woman who turns his entire existence upside down. When he was already off-kilter and had a severe case of mental vertigo… Hi. My pen name is Katrin Greene.I have lived most of my life as an office manager, accountant, auditor, math-geek, and applications specialist. Sometimes this has been in someone's garage. Sometimes, a cube farm. That's my "work life."The life inside my brain??? Well, that's a bit different. A friend once told me its like watching glitterbombs go off like fireworks.My current worlds:The World of Novo: a post-apocalyptic world, twenty years later, and how much fun some people bring into the world.Haven Point: A semi-rookie police officer and her dog in the Adirondacks trying to pay off her student loans and deal with a mother that is gender-biased and trying to marry her off…See you around the stacks sometime! Welcome to Ridge Lake, a small farming community about an hour's drive north of the City-State of Taliville. There, you can visit The Co-op, Yugi's Tavern, or Terry's Cafe. Just be careful not to walk to closely next to the jacketed oxen. Meet this fun cheesecakey apocalyptic world where one day you might be simply sitting behind your desk and the next, outrunning goats and potatoes.The Beginning: Twenty years previous, the City Elite call it Fallen Stars. When scientists decided to change the year calendar from A.D. to N.M. Novo Mutanis…. When the satellites fell, crashing into the land, sea, volcanoes and bio-research stations, releasing a deadly combination of toxic chemicals, diseases, and radiation into the sky. The water… all the water in the world is now acidic. Burning to exposed skin. It has to be purified to be usable. Life on Earth is still struggling to rise. Living in the city means protection from the acid rain. It also means high taxes, high rent, and high prices for the most basic needs. Rainbow Bloods, they are called. Whispered by those who survived wars, starvation, terrorists,

In a world of raiders, indent gangs, and acid rain, a hidden secret means confronting the past...Kip Hollister has made a tactical error. Which is normal. SubUnit C has been disbanded. In the process, he has managed, yet again, to piss off the other members of the new SubUnit as they are being sent to the backside of the Front Lines. His combat skills suck as much as his verbal ones. He's even managed to anger normally soft-spoken Sardichuck. It never goes right… Speaking.He says what he thinks are the right words. All the time. No one listens. He's sick to death of dealing with people who read into every single little thing that is said. Sick of assumptions. Sick of the bragging rights as to who has it worse. Sick of… He's just… plain… sick.Hollyn has been running from the attentions of her sadistic cousin Mihall for years. Ever since her mother passed away. Mihall and his three brothers– Brett, Justin, and Samael– have been in charge of the pig farm, the family business, since her G-pa died in an influenza outbreak.A hot-shot Lieutenant uses the war with Eli as cover to make a name for himself and decides, without authorization, since he is an LT after all, to start taking on the lower level cases of those who are in prison, awaiting trial. Without bothering to read through all the new laws or speak to the newly forming Ridge Lake Town Council, Nesui lets Mihall out of prison, where he has been since the last time he attacked Hollyn. Nesui dismissed the assault charges, not fully realizing the potential disaster he has released into the populace at large. Mihall returns to his home and his first stop is to locate his errant, way-ward, female cousin…Hollister is ordered to take Hollyn, the girl he has been drooling over for weeks, north, to the front, where she will man one of the abandoned fire towers, as training for her new position in the Fire Department. He has no idea what to say. What to do. And he is… sick.He is sick. The words repeat inside him as he struggles with the news that he may, in fact, turn into one of the rainbow bloods as he is sent north to prepare for incoming units. A rainbow blood. Mutant. If his father ever finds out, the man might actually beat him to death this time... Hi. My pen name is Katrin Greene.I have lived most of my life as an office manager, accountant, auditor, math-geek, and applications specialist. Sometimes this has been in someone's garage. Sometimes, a cube farm. That's my "work life."The life inside my brain??? Well, that's a bit different. A friend once told me its like watching glitterbombs go off like fireworks.My current worlds:The World of Novo: a post-apocalyptic world, twenty years later, and how much fun some people bring into the world.Haven Point: A semi-rookie police officer and her dog in the Adirondacks trying to pay off her student loans and deal with a mother that is gender-biased and trying to marry her off…See you around the stacks sometime! Welcome to Ridge Lake, a small farming community about an hour's drive north of the City-State of Taliville. There, you can visit The Co-op, Yugi's Tavern, or Terry's Cafe. Just be careful not to walk to closely next to the jacketed oxen. Meet this fun cheesecakey apocalyptic world where one day you might be simply sitting behind your desk and the next, outrunning goats and potatoes.The Beginning: Twenty years previous, the City Elite call it Fallen Stars. When scientists decided to change the year calendar from A.D. to N.M. Novo Mutanis…. When the satellites fell, crashing into the land, sea, volcanoes and bio-research stations, releasing a deadly combination of toxic chemicals, diseases, and radiation into the sky. The water… all the water in the world is now acidic. Burning to exposed skin. It has to be purified to be usable. Life on Earth is still struggling to rise. Living in the city means protection from the acid rain. It also means high taxes, high rent, and high prices for the most basic needs. Ra

In a world of raiders, indent gangs, and acid rain, a hidden secret breaks men apart...Sergeant Master Chem Stewart Collins, current First of Unit 23, has a problem. He has too many problems that, if he fails in any, several people will die. Including his brothers– the men he has served beside for nearly twenty years. He's been on the Front Lines in the war with Eli, a dangerous sociopath and human trafficker, for nearly eight months. What should have been over in two weeks has become a feud that may very well turn into a revolution or increase the war with Southern. He knows that famine is around the corner in one to two years. It is August. He knows that if he does not end this conflict, and soon, his Brogans will be fighting a prolonged, pitched battle into it's second winter. He is the head chemist of his unit. The very reason they were called to Ridge Lake– the poisoning of Sisihall Creek– he has had to hand off to Oak, the doctor of the unit, since Jordan, their former commander and his bag buggy, has his hands too full, trying to cope with disease outbreaks, a war zone, smuggling operations, his family falling apart, and several mutations. Not to mention. Jordan isn't exactly stable. Neither is Gabe, Oak, or himself. Has their four man finally cracked for good? Can trust ever be rebuilt, between him and the three men who he'd been incarcerated with during Novo, the ones who left him to deal with the lives of over three thousand people almost entirely on his own, to the point where his own sanity no longer hangs in the balance?Hazel and her family have run from Okder, Eli's seat of power. They are running for their lives, with no more than a single bag of food, one bag of personal possessions each, their wagon, and two donkeys. During the escape, she rolls down a hill and smashes her body into several trees and rocks. She has already had one head injury in her lifetime that caused permanent amnesia. Mother, Sev, and Edward leave her and her father with half of the food, traveling on foot to try and get out of the war zone. Hazel and Owen stay with the wagon. They don't know they are being hunted, targeted by one of Eli's patrol crews, also trying to leave the war zone.Sergeant Master Chem Collins walks into their camp, in the middle of the night. He offers them protection, the services of a doctor, food, safe water, and medicine. He tells her that her paranoia is perfectly acceptable. Hazel winds up making an offer that might end the war and might buy her family a safe house to live in... Hi. My pen name is Katrin Greene.I have lived most of my life as an office manager, accountant, auditor, math-geek, and applications specialist. Sometimes this has been in someone's garage. Sometimes, a cube farm. That's my "work life."The life inside my brain??? Well, that's a bit different. A friend once told me its like watching glitterbombs go off like fireworks.My current worlds:The World of Novo: a post-apocalyptic world, twenty years later, and how much fun some people bring into the world.Haven Point: A semi-rookie police officer and her dog in the Adirondacks trying to pay off her student loans and deal with a mother that is gender-biased and trying to marry her off…See you around the stacks sometime! Welcome to Ridge Lake, a small farming community about an hour's drive north of the City-State of Taliville. There, you can visit The Co-op, Yugi's Tavern, or Terry's Cafe. Just be careful not to walk to closely next to the jacketed oxen. Meet this fun cheesecakey apocalyptic world where one day you might be simply sitting behind your desk and the next, outrunning goats and potatoes.The Beginning: Twenty years previous, the City Elite call it Fallen Stars. When scientists decided to change the year calendar from A.D. to N.M. Novo Mutanis…. When the satellites fell, crashing into the land, sea, volcanoes and bio-research stations, releasing a deadly combination of toxic chemicals, diseases, and radiation into the sky. The

In a world of raiders, indent gangs, and acid rain, a hidden secret lays waste to the best made plans...Evan Sardichuck was assigned the role of Mech for SubUnit F. Sent to the backside of the Front in the war with Eli, with Hollister, Hillard, Goss, Goherty, and Roberts, his duties were to assess Mobile Station Units and build habitats for wildlife seeking shelter from both the war zone and the heavy, damaging acid rains. His secondary functions were to work with his new bag buddy, Orrin Goss. Goss and Hollister did not get along, at the beginning of the assignment, even though all of Sub F came out of their original SubUnit C.In one year, since leaving his nomadic, pacifistic village, soft-spoken Evan has been dumped by his fiancé for another man, trained in combat and retrieval, killed three men, fought forest fires, and assigned security at the hospital, checking wagons and incoming packages for contraband, poisons, and hidden compartments. Then, he was sent to the front. It didn't feel like it, at first.Sub F was split off from the rest of the unit because they had the most chance at turning into a Rainbow Blood. A mutant. In a routine, step out of the fire tower to collect wood from the nearby tree line, Evan became a casualty. A feral pig, infected and released by Eli into the war zone, came screaming out of the woods and gored his leg, tearing through muscle and tendon. And then… then… then… he mutated.For six weeks, he has battled with suicidal rages, fevers, lucid moments, the knowledge that he has been cut off twice over from ever returning to his home, only to find out he has changed. His outlook on life has completely, utterly changed…Can he deal with it? Can he deal with all of his overwhelming feelings? All of them, which he doesn't understand, even if he can start to accept them? Will he tip over the edge? Will he lose his mind or his battle to stay alive? Hi. My pen name is Katrin Greene.I have lived most of my life as an office manager, accountant, auditor, math-geek, and applications specialist. Sometimes this has been in someone's garage. Sometimes, a cube farm. That's my "work life."The life inside my brain??? Well, that's a bit different. A friend once told me its like watching glitterbombs go off like fireworks.My current worlds:The World of Novo: a post-apocalyptic world, twenty years later, and how much fun some people bring into the world.Haven Point: A semi-rookie police officer and her dog in the Adirondacks trying to pay off her student loans and deal with a mother that is gender-biased and trying to marry her off…See you around the stacks sometime! Welcome to Ridge Lake, a small farming community about an hour's drive north of the City-State of Taliville. There, you can visit The Co-op, Yugi's Tavern, or Terry's Cafe. Just be careful not to walk to closely next to the jacketed oxen. Meet this fun cheesecakey apocalyptic world where one day you might be simply sitting behind your desk and the next, outrunning goats and potatoes.The Beginning: Twenty years previous, the City Elite call it Fallen Stars. When scientists decided to change the year calendar from A.D. to N.M. Novo Mutanis…. When the satellites fell, crashing into the land, sea, volcanoes and bio-research stations, releasing a deadly combination of toxic chemicals, diseases, and radiation into the sky. The water… all the water in the world is now acidic. Burning to exposed skin. It has to be purified to be usable. Life on Earth is still struggling to rise. Living in the city means protection from the acid rain. It also means high taxes, high rent, and high prices for the most basic needs. Rainbow Bloods, they are called. Whispered by those who survived wars, starvation, terrorists, disease, and cancer. Those who are different, mutated, are feared.