Dominique dreams of joining the Rangers and leaving behind her homestead’s claustrophobia and boredom. Every fledgling must fly the nest to become something more. Sadly, the world has only harsh lessons to teach. Had she known how desolate and soul-destroying conditions outside her community were, maybe she would have chosen to stay under the care of her relatives. But the young are forever restless, so when the Rangers finally arrive ahead of an inferno, she eagerly tests for their ranks. In the unlikely company of the only other teenager in her village,
Wang, autistic, brilliant, but socially inept, Dominique waves farewell to her past. On their quest to resurrect an age-old contract between the followers of an earth religion and the mysterious tech city dwellers, the closely knit rangers, with their two newest recruits, encounter the overwhelming emptiness and barrenness of the Burn. They battle disease, wild animals, the inhuman Welcomers, the frighteningly evolved City Dwellers, an all-controlling sentient being and the fragility of existence. Everything hangs in the balance. Only the burgeoning talents of the youngsters can get them through the end of times.
Author of nine fantastic fiction books – JC Pereira – With a long journey of years and distance behind him from when he began life on a small, mountainous island in the Caribbean, then to England, education and career and finally to Italy for a new family, the author decided to follow his heart. He turned his hand to what he loved most and brought him solace and joy in his youth – books. He graduated from reading into writing – an unimaginable step. His first attempt was ‘A Place to Belong To’. Since then, he has written nine books, with ‘Dying Under an Empty Blue Sky‘ being the latest. He is now working on the fourth and final in the ‘Brothers of Destiny’ series.
“I spent most of my life in the U.K., where I received a formal education culminating in a B.A. (Hons) Degree in Psychology. I worked in a couple of corporate institutions and finally settled as a civil servant within the Department of Works and Pensions. From there, I moved to Italy, where I found marriage, a beautiful wife, and a child. Here, I rediscovered books and the joy of writing stories.”
