ALL IS SILENCE finished #37 of 151 for Wattpad's Story of the Year! Also a WATTYS 2015 - Dream Collections Winner! Thanks to everyone who added me to their collections! You made my year! The sequel, STRAIGHT INTO DARKNESS, is available in print and e-book on all major ebook sites. If you are interested in hearing about special deals on this or any other works, please sign up for my monthly newsletter at www.desertedlands.com. #1 in Science Fiction - 57 days so far! Thank you, readers! PG-15: [Yes, you read that right. I would recommend teens not read it until they are 16!] Profanity, violence and sexual situations. Warning: There is talk of cutting and suicide. If any of these are triggers for you, please consider that when reading. Take care. Rob What if death forgot you? In a future that could be ours, Lizzie, a suicidal teen-age girl, barely navigates her own life. Then everything falls apart. In an apocalyptic land nearly deserted by disease, she lacks reasons to live until a shocking turn of events reveals a phone number. Her call pulls her dangerously cross-country to meet a stranger she thought was dead. In a world where there is plenty of food, plenty of gas, plenty of space... fear, anger and a lust for power still control the patterns of human life. This coming of age, edgy young adult novel is the debut of a former alternative high school teacher. If you like this, try Toils and Snares, a Deserted Lands novella, sampled on Wattpad.

When Shen Mo awakens in a foreign world ruled by cultivation, he is powerless, lost, and alone. With no system to guide him and no memory of how he arrived, he begins a solitary climb-literally and spiritually-up a remote mountain to train. As he opens each meridian, enduring the pain and silence of self-transformation, mysterious gifts begin to appear: food, herbs, a note. Someone is watching. Someone who knows. That someone is Lu Jingyan-an enigmatic cultivator with secrets of his own. As Shen Mo's strength grows, so too does the tension between them-something unspoken, fragile, and charged. But beneath their slow-burning connection lies a deeper truth: Shen Mo may not be from this world... but he may hold the key to its salvation-or its undoing.