
Until we reach what's left of our town and can finally let go of one another. He's gruff and stoic and unfriendly, and I don't really know or like him. Travis used to fix my car, and now he's all I have left in the world. The only way I'm going to make it is by trusting Travis. To survive, I'll have to salvage food and supplies and try to avoid violent men who've learned they can take what they want by force. Now the last member of my family has died, and I'm forced to travel across what's left of three states to find the only people I know left alive. IT ONLY TOOK FOUR YEARS for the world to fall apart. But no matter how much I appreciate those of you who’ve read and loved my Claire Kent books, I don’t want anyone to be holding their breath for more. If a miracle happens and this book actually moves, or if I get inspired with another story unexpectedly, those plans could certainly change. Plus, my Claire Kent books sell about a tenth of what my Noelle Adams books do (even less now that it’s been two years since I’ve published one), so it makes no sense from a business perspective to keep pouring my time and energy into the pen name.Īll that to say that, according to my plans now, this will be my final Claire Kent book. I wrote most of my Claire Kent books ten or fifteen years ago. But please don’t count on a follow-up book. I did set up secondary characters in this one with follow-up potential, just in case I get inspired and this one sells more than I’m expecting. I’m not expecting this to sell in any numbers, but I wanted to put it out in the world anyway.ĭespite publishing a new Claire Kent book, I’m not planning to restart that pen name. In terms of heat level and core story/theme, it’s probably closer to Noelle Adams, but the only books I’ve written that are anything like this one in style and genre are the Hold series books, so I finally decided to publish this as a Claire Kent title. This one falls somewhere in between my Claire Kent and my Noelle Adams stories. Then I had a completed novel-one I loved and was proud of-but had no idea what to do with it.

I ended up giving into the inspiration and sending it out chapter by chapter to my serial novel list.

THIS STORY CAME TO me randomly late last year, and it wouldn’t let me go, despite being nothing like I usually write. All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce, distribute, or transmit in any form or by any means. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.Ĭopyright © 2019 by Claire Kent. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
