A CLIMATE CHANGE ADVENTUERE
STORM SEER - Book 1
It is because climate change is unstoppable that Storm Seer asks the question: What will become of us?
With the Extinction a distant memory, it’s a challenge to survive. Scattered folk steal what they can. The storms will never abate. Worse, they may strike with ferocity wherever folk hide.
On the islands of Sealand, Alfren believes her life is mapped out to be in the service of her new folk. Despite her oddness, which she puts to use in evading trouble, all is well. Until, one ordinary day, a raider is thrown ashore with a key to the disappearances of the children.
A trap is set.
Alfren must break free and face the greatest force ever.
Storm Seer is a must-read for young and older readers interested in the effects of climate change and opens a new perspective on the resolve we need to survive it.
STORM BRINGER - Book 2
In the second of the Alfren series, Storm Bringer asks the question: What resolve is needed to wrest humankind from oblivion?
An Extinction storm has passed and Alfren’s world is in disarray. Her island folk are on the cusp of failure. Isn’t that enough to deal with? But now Alfren’s insight has shown her the enormous power of Earth. Forces old and new are now at large in a chaotic world. The trouble is, this is only the start.
Alfren has much more to learn and must accept she’s a seer, because a vast Extinction storm is not the only thing on the horizon …
This is a tale of challenge and awakening, friendship and betrayal, disorder and love.
Storm Bringer is a must-read for young and older readers interested in how folk will manage in a post-Extinction world at the mercy of climate change.
STORM VIKING - Book 3
In a world where climate change is here to stay, Storm Viking asks the question: How can we survive?
In the chaos of the occupation, Alfren sees raiders establish themselves and her folk begin to starve. In the ice winter, there’s little hope. The trouble is, there’s a storm on its way which is unlike any before. Certainly, it brings havoc and destruction like all storms. But what it also brings is much worse. It will surely finish her folk forever. So she had better do something – and it will be a wrench. Alfren sets off on a voyage in search of answers to a deeper level of storm.
Storm Viking is a must-read for young and older readers who recognise that change to our way of looking at things and readiness to adapt, although daunting, will be our best hope when facing up to climate change.
STORM CHARMER – BOOK 4
Coming Soon
Snippets
Alfren slithered along the ditch in pitch-black night and fell onto the beach just as the surf tossed an open rowing boat onto the shingle. She hefted her bow and nocked an arrow, sure to strike. In the faint lamplight cast from the prow, a raider leapt out and turned to pull on a rope. Likely they wore body armour: thick leather and maybe steel plate. Alfren stood and, in a snap, took aim and loosed the arrow at her target some 50 yards away.
The wind gusted, the raider slipped and struggled upright … and yet the arrow stabbed on target, through leather sleeve and flesh of arm into chest.
The raider cried out and fell into the surf.
Alfren’s watch partner sprinted past, lamp held high in one hand and knife drawn in the other. Alfren nocked another arrow and ran forward, ready to shoot should the raider fight back. Her partner dropped the lamp and crouched over the raider with knife raised. The raider called for mercy … Alfren heard children’s wailing screams, pleading.
Two children reached over the gunwale.
Children?
She ambled along below the wall to check if any children were following. They wouldn’t be caught out. She hoped not, because she had passed on to some of them what they should do to stay hidden: it wasn’t about simply knowing all the paths and rooftops and keeping your distance, in the shadows; it was about knowing your quarry and what they might be up to. Be ready to run; have a way out if your quarry turned.
It had happened to her knowledge only a few times over her years. A child, somewhere in and around the burgh, in the quiet of their backyard or playing on the scrap heaps at the shipwrights’ quarter, had been snatched without sound or alarm, a raider glimpsed with a sack over their shoulder.
It was important for every child to know how to hide because no child wanted to be the one who got caught and taken.
And lost forever.
She breathed in and because she was hidden by the parapet and no one was close she went to the waves in her mind. Her favourites were the wind waves. They were mostly blues, thin streamers and great blankets, which knotted, tangled and unwound, with some flitting by and others twisting around her. She dipped in among them lightly because she didn’t have the time to fall in and float off with them.
Strange, she thought, but when she slipped away from them, they chased after her.
A tremor. That was odd.
OMG just buy this if you are able to – it’s an amazing story with interesting characters.
My son is a very reluctant reader but absolutely loved this and finished it in 4 days, which is a first! A very happy boy and an even happier mother. Please write another one very soon 🙂
Wild Books is a publishing company based on the Shetland Islands, a large archipelago in the North Atlantic lying between Scotland and Norway. D Wild found inspiration for the story of life after the Extinction from the high winds and storm seas that pound these island shores.