Lady Grace & the War for a New World (Earth's End Book 2) (41 page)

About the book

Lady Grace

& the War for a New World

&

Earth’s End

A note from author Sandy Nathan—

People ask me where I get the ideas for my books. I use a technique I call “literature through disaster.” That’s a cheeky way of saying that many of my books are my soul’s way of making sense of my personal tragedies. The Earth’s End exists because of a painful loss.

A few years ago, my brother died suddenly. I was heartbroken—he was my only sibling and adored baby brother. On the outside, I looked calm, but on the inside, grief fought with memories, creating a contained despair.

Perhaps three months after my brother’s death, I had a dream. A shining, golden light hovered above me as I lay in bed. The light was a conscious entity radiating goodness. I would call the apparition an angel, except that she was just a hovering light. No wings or halo or so on. (But maybe those are human add-ons.)

The light lowered itself onto my body, finally merging with me. The bliss was enormous. Indescribable. For several hours, I enjoyed the state of that beatific creature.

That dream was the inspiration for the angelic Eliana in the first book of the Earth’s End. My creative process turned my experience into an angelic alien sent to earth on a vitally important mission. 

The rest of the book’s plot was revealed to me during the next week. The Angel & the Brown-Eyed Boy occurs hours before a nuclear war destroys the planet. The story describes the attempts of an ensemble of people to escape the conflagration. I introduce the gigantic underground bomb shelter on the Piermont estate.

When I finished the draft for The Angel & the Brown-Eyed Boy, the characters were as real to me as people I know in daily life. My mind kept churning, turning out two sequels in record time.

The second book, Lady Grace, tells what happens when the radiation clears. It chronicles the attempts of the survivors to create a new world. Some of the characters come from The Angel & the Brown-Eyed Boy; some are new. Lady Grace is a romance as well as a thriller, with more twists than a politician’s cover story.

My mind/heart/psyche/word generator was still stoked when I finished Lady Grace. The character of Sam Baahuhd from The Angel & the Brown-Eyed Boy captivated me. Sam is the headman of the village—the community composed of the staff and workers of the Piermont estate where the action in The Angel ends up.

Sam is huge, almost a giant, and as tough as they come. He’s a seasoned fighter and defender of the estate, as well as an agricultural expert and top manager. He’s been stunted by the serf-like conditions in which the villagers live.

Sam Baahuhd fascinated me so much that I wrote The Headman & the Assassin. The Headman is a love story that takes place in the bomb shelter below the Piermont estate. It’s a passionate and sometimes dangerous romance that lasts a lifetime. 

A fourth book in the series is shaping up in my mind and is partially written. Book four will pick up where Lady Grace ends. No title yet. This book will not be released for a while.

That’s because I’ve got two series in play. The characters in Lady Grace are visited—involuntarily on their parts—by Bud Creeman and Wesley Silverhorse from my other collection, the Bloodsong Series. The Bloodsong Series tells the story of the richest man in the world, Will Duane, meeting a great Native American shaman, Grandfather.

Numenon, the first book in the Bloodsong Series, takes place in 1997, as Silicon Valley billionaire Will Duane and his employees travel to New Mexico to attend Grandfather’s final spiritual retreat.

When Bud and Wes drop into Lady Grace, they left their world in 2015. Eighteen years have passed since Numenon and much has happened in Will Duane’s world. You need to know what went down.

Several Bloodsong Series books must be released before the fourth book from Earth’s End can come out and make sense. When completed, The Bloodsong Series and Earth’s end will cover more than half a century in our time––and span thousands of years in the world of Earth’s End.

It’s a spectacular journey that may take a lifetime. I invite you to make it with me.

Sandy Nathan

About The Author

SANDY NATHAN

Sandy Nathan writes to amaze and delight, uplift and inspire, as well as thrill and occasionally terrify. She is known for creating unforgettable characters and putting them in do-or-die situations.

She writes in genres ranging from visionary fiction to juvenile nonfiction to spirituality and memoir.

“I write for people who like challenging, original work. My reader isn’t satisfied by a worn-out story or predictable plot. I do my best to give my readers what they want.”

Mrs. Nathan’s books have won twenty-four national awards, including multiple awards from oldest, largest, and most prestigious contests for independent publishers. Her books have earned rave critical reviews and customer reviews of close to five-star averages on Amazon. Most are Amazon bestsellers.

Sandy was born in San Francisco, California, at the end of WWII. Her father, a first generation immigrant of Icelandic stock, created and owned one of the largest residential construction companies in the USA. Sandy grew up in the hard-driving, achievement-orientated corporate culture of Silicon Valley.

Sandy holds Master’s Degrees in Economics and Marriage, Family, and Child Counseling. She was a doctoral student at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and has been an economic analyst, businesswoman, and negotiation coach, as well as author.

Mrs. Nathan lives with her husband on their California ranch. They bred Peruvian Paso horses for almost twenty years. She has three grown children and two grandchildren.

www.sandynathan.com

From award-winning author Sandy Nathan

The Angel &

the Brown-Eyed Boy

E
arth
’s End
1

Tomorrow morning, a nuclear holocaust will destroy the planet. Two people carry the keys to survival: Jeremy, a 16-year-old, tech genius; and Eliana, an angelic, intergalactic traveler.

Welcome to a future world only heartbeats from our own.

By the late 22nd century, the world has become a police state. A ruined United States barely functions. Government control masks chaos, dissenters are sent to camps, and technology is outlawed. War rages while the authorities proclaim the Great Peace.

It’s New York City on the eve of nuclear Armageddon.

Join Jeremy and Eliana on a quest to save two doomed planets … and find each other.

The Angel & the Brown-Eyed Boy

Earth’s End 1

From award-winning author Sandy Nathan

The Headman

& the Assassin

Earth’s End 3

Sam Baahuhd has been the village headman for twenty-two years. He can control others with his speech and heal with a touch. Even with his powers, Sam has survived only because he’s kept his fellow villagers from murdering him. (They’re a little rough.) The villagers live on Veronica Edgarton’s estate. Or they do until nuclear Armageddon forces them into a huge underground bomb shelter.

When Sam carries a naked stranger into the shelter, he knows what she did before the war. Her work was murder––murdering people. He has no idea she will ignite his heart and change his world. The lovely outsider carries deadly secrets no one can imagine. Only Sam with his village headman’s powers can heal her. Only Emily can make Sam the man he was meant to be.

Passion explodes between them. Passion that brings joy and pain, ecstasy and remorse. Passion that can kill.

All the while, they know there’s no escape from the underground. Not for them. Or their children, or their children’s children …

Join Sam & Emily for a love story that will be remembered for all time.