End Game

Have a date yet for the end of the world?

Set in Connecticut, End Game is a near-term apocalyptic SF adventure, where ordinary people choose extraordinary ways to face a climate and world gone haywire.

In the near future, climate change reaches a tipping point, and accelerates. Natural disasters - and man-made - spin out of control world-wide. Agricultural output is devastated. The world is suddenly all too overpopulated. Tides of refugees threaten violent domino effect disasters.

To face the crisis, the U.S. hatches a plan - the Calm Act - instituting radical martial law. American foreign involvement is withdrawn around the world, civilian air travel and international trade shut down. Interstate travel and commerce are blocked by armed borders, in a crash program to cut greenhouse emissions and force local sustainability. News and public discourse are draconically censored to quell widespread panic and rioting.

A top programmer for a Fortune 100 media giant, Dee Baker knows the truth behind the sugar-coated news foisted on the public. Dee also has a shot at an ark berth. Self-contained biospheres, the arks promise the ultimate security against disease, weather, radiation, and the starving left outside. If her job doesn't deliver, she's also dating Adam, a fun and wealthy arkitect.

But Dee could also weather the storms outside the arks. Her barricaded state of Connecticut can still produce food, and resourceful Dee grows her own. Her other love interest, solemn Zack, is way too much like Dee for her comfort. Zack plans to make his stand outside the arks.

In End Game, Dee chooses which man, and how to make her own stand in this new world.

End Game is the first installment in the the Calm Act series. See books.gingerbooth.com for bonus material and news of future installments.