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We all experience underworld journeys, times when it seems like the life we knew was hijacked and the world is suddenly unrecognizable.

Jessie's future looks bright. She's a successful artist with an MFA and a job she loves when her clairvoyant grandmother has a vision of imminent catastrophe. Jessie, her…

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1 author picked AspenRidge as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

While the characters of this story are preppers and likely to survive an end-of-the-world event, I love that the story focuses on a young woman and her grandmother, who, despite all the planning, face this cyberattack without the men in their lives.

It is also believable that a cyber-attack and the climate crisis would play a role in the story, as the worst winter in over a hundred years isolates the survivors. I like how we are introduced to the fiercely protective MMC in the spring after a second tragedy has struck.

I also loved the bits of my mythology…

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