The Toils (Book One)

In the future, there is no medicine that can save you.
The government is gone.
The days are hot, and the dangers many.

Welcome to the continent of Aotearoa.
The country of Gossfordshire is in crisis - the King is dead, his children are being murdered, and trade with their neighboring country Motueka has dried up leaving Gossfordshire on the brink of starvation.
Ritty, the King's son, seeks to restore the peace and bring Gossfordshire back to its glory days, but his efforts are increasingly hampered by Randall, the head councilman-come-dictator, who sets out to bring the kingdom under his control.
Also stifling Rittys goals of normalcy is Magnus, aided by councilwoman Thatcher, who sees a much more egalitarian vision for the future of Gossfordshire.
Between Randall's aim of national domination, Rittys want for normality, Thatcher and Magnus's revolution, and a mass migration crisis moving upwards from the Southern States, only one thing can be certain;
Gossfordshire is entirely unprepared for what is coming.

Content Warnings;
- Coarse language
- Light cannabis usage
- Repeated acts of abduction in the context of war
- Moderate graphic descriptions of physical violence toward people
- Infrequent descriptions of violence toward animals & animal death
- Infrequent descriptions of suicidal ideation, suicide attempts
- Infrequent descriptions of ideas toward self-harm
- Moderate descriptions of death in the context of warfare, murder and natural causes.

This book is a free version riddled with typos, spelling errors, and poor formatting.
An edited version will be arriving soon for purchase, with these errors fixed and the formatting improved.
This blurb will be updated when that version has been released, so check back over the coming months.