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

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