Toils and Snares (Deserted Lands Book 4)

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What if Death Forgot You?

Untouched by a global pandemic killing over 95% of the population, Samuel’s family fears a mutated virus and the people who have survived it. Is this apocalypse an act of God? They may escape into the wilderness to find a place of safety as civilization dies around them, but can they escape each other and their pasts?

Toils and Snares is a parallelequel to Cygnus award winner All Is Silence. It starts slightly before chronologically and ends a bit after, but it tells a smaller story with more details about the pandemic that caused Deserted Lands.

“Toils and Snares is a powerfully visceral and moving tale of a family’s intimate struggles to cope with the aftermath of a devastating worldwide plague. Robert L. Slater immediately engages us with the dangers of a post-collapse, lawless Pacific Northwest. Then he ups the ante by stripping bare the internal landscapes of wonderfully realized characters, as we share survivor’s guilt, parent/child resentments, and difficult joys on the path to heroically remaking a world for themselves and their children.” —Sara Stamey, award-winning science fiction author of The Ariadne Connection.