In post-apocalyptic America, Selah Chavez is crouched in long
grass on a shore littered with the rusted metal remnants of a
once-great city. It is the day before her eighteenth Born
Remembrance, and she is hunting, though many people refuse to eat
animal flesh, tainted by radiation during the Time of Sorrows. What
Selah's really after are Landers, mysterious people from a land
across the big water who survive the delirium-inducing passage in
small boats that occasionally crash against the shoreline. She
knows she should leave the capture to the men, but Landers bring a
good price from the Company and are especially prized if they keep
the markings they arrive with.
Everything falls to pieces when the Lander Selah catches is stolen
by her brothers--and Selah wakes up the next morning to find the
Lander's distinctive mark has suddenly appeared on her own flesh.
Once the hunter, Selah is now one of the hunted, and she knows only
one person who can help her--Bohdi Locke, the Lander her brothers
hope to sell.
With evocative descriptions of a strange new world that combines
elements of scientific advances, political intrigue, and wilderness
survival, Bonnie S. Calhoun weaves a captivating tale of a world
more like our own than we may want to admit.
The Time of Sorrows is long past.
The future of Selah and her people is shrouded in mystery.
And the clock is ticking.
Hidden in the tall grasses along a shore littered with the rusted
metal remnants of a once-great city, a hunter crouches. It is the
eve of her eighteenth Birth Remembrance and high time she proves to
herself and her brothers that she can stand on her own two feet.
Selah Rishon Chavez waits not for game but for one of the small
boats that occasionally crash against the desolate shoreline.
Because inside one of these boats she will find her quarry--a
Lander.
These people from an unknown land across the ocean are highly
prized by the Company and bring a good price--especially if they
keep the markings they arrive with.
Everything falls to pieces when the Lander whom Selah catches is
stolen by her brothers, and Selah wakes the next morning to find
the Lander's distinctive mark has appeared on her own flesh. Once
the hunter, Selah is now one of the hunted, and she knows only one
person who can help her--Bodhi Locke, the Lander her brothers hope
to sell in the Mountain.
Bonnie S. Calhoun teaches workshops on Facebook, Twitter, HTML, and social media at writers conferences. In her everyday life she is a seamstress and clothing designer. Bonnie and her husband live in a log home in upstate New York with a dog and two cats who think she's wait staff. Thunder is her first YA novel. Learn more at www.bonniescalhoun.com.