Graveyard Children

They were orphans once, in the beginning, when the world caught fire and so many people became lost and abandoned. The young ones were guided to this place in the wilderness where towering piles of junk had been left to rust. They made a home there. They made weapons from scraps and clothing from animals while the old world turned to ashes and their tiny new world grew up.

The second generation has inherited a world in which stories are worth more than gold, technology is inert, ingenuity is the key to power, and power is the cornerstone of survival. But the question is no longer how to survive, rather, how can you truly protect anyone besides yourself?

In this first installment of Graveyard Children, three counterpoint characters and their peoples come to conflict when a crazed warrior upends the fragile peace between them. A young bear rider looks for a land to which her forest people might migrate. A crippled girl learns to rule a castle in her clandestine father's absence. A boy from the junkyard keeps his one good eye on the safety of his friends, while a dark pathogen ruins the other. Human nature is unpredictable, but when the world is thrown into chaos, we fit right in.