After the Pretty Pox: A Post-Apocalyptic Survival Tale (Book One The Attic)

After the Pretty Pox: A Post-Apocalyptic Survival Tale (Book One The Attic)

<b><i>"It's worse than that. God will ignore us entirely."</i><br />A searing act of bioterrorism. A catastrophic plague they call the Pretty Pox.</b><br />Most of the human race is dead, and for two years Arie McInnes has been alone, riding out the aftermath of the Pretty Pox, waiting for her own inevitable end.<br /><br />Hidden in the attic of her ruined home, Arie survives by wit and skill, ritual and habit. Convinced that humans are a dangerous fluke, a problematic species best allowed to expire, she chooses solitude...even in matters of life and death.<br /><br />Arie's precarious world is upended when her youngest brother - a man she's never met - appears out of nowhere with a badly injured woman. Their presence in the attic draws the attention of a dark watcher in the woods, and Arie is forced to choose between the narrow beliefs that have sustained her and the stubborn instinct to love and protect.<br /><br />In Book One of August Ansel's captivating new post-apocalyptic series, <i>After the Pretty Pox </i>casts an unwavering eye on what it means to be human in a world where nature has the upper hand, and the only rules left to live by - for good or ill - are the ones written on our hearts.