Forty-eight years after a catastrophic solar event destroys all life and technology on the planet's surface, nineteen-year-old Reid Landers lives in the old NORAD facility deep inside Cheyenne Mountain with other descendants of Originals, barely subsisting on canned food and rats. For all they know they are the last hundred souls on Earth...until Reid meets the first stranger he has ever seen, a stranger with a grown apple. This catapults him on a journey to California to find seeds for his people, an adventure fraught with skin-carving pirates, twisted missionaries, and mercenaries on Rollerblades. Even if Reid can outwit the despot leader of "Lost" Angeles and resist the siren's song of a beautiful con artist, there may not be any seeds left to find. And his people—including the woman he secretly loves—might not take him back. Scott, bestselling author of T**he Permit and Space Wars: The First Six Hours of World War III, A War Game Scenario — “A wild, daring post-apocalyptic tale.” Mario Acevedo, author of Rescue From Planet Pleasure "Many a writer has dealt with frustration that comes with writer’s block, a problem that Mandeville’s book, the first in a series, addresses head-on. According to Mandeville, knowing the roots of one’s writer’s block is not the key. Instead, the book’s five parts outline a number of pragmatic exercises designed to help writers take immediate action...The variety of the exercises, supplemented with quotes from professional writers, ensures that every writer will be able to gain in some way from Mandeville’s advice and techniques." — BookLife.com