Cynthia Wainwright, in late spring of 2026, was on her way to yet another fossil fuel divestment pitch, but now she is on the run. Her boss, a V.P. at Carbon’s End, is dead and someone is trying to make it look like she pulled the trigger…
Kill Well, Book One of The Steep Climes Quartet, is available as a Kindle book and paperback through Amazon and through other ebook stores at Books2Read.com, or order the paperback through your favorite bookstore.
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Hurricane Josephine, in 2029, the earliest and strongest on record, hits Florida’s Gold Coast, and the devastation of South Beach and the Miami Metro area and the count of the dead and displaced staggers the nation.
Dear Josephine, Book Two of The Steep Climes Quartet, is available as a Kindle book and paperback through Amazon and through other ebook stores at Books2Read.com. The paperback version of Dear Josephine is also available by ordering the paperback through your favorite online or local bookstore.
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2035 sees battles over climate policy and new legislation continue, as does the march upward of average global temperatures. A long heatwave oppressing New York City drives people to escape into the relatively cool hills of the Berkshires, and out west, a terrorist cell member of No One is Safe, is getting back at work on drone systems blowing up refineries and pipelines and the occasional oil exec…
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