Dear Reader, 2017 will remain in my memory as a prolific writing year. I worked on five manuscripts simultaneously! Of the five, this is second to the last to be published, and one of four that are first in a series. While some authors would channel their creativity and storytelling talents into a single series, during our time together, the muse refused to be corralled. These results set me up for another wild year of penning book two in each of these series. Survivors in the After began as story starters from prompts in a writing group added to a prologue that was written for a creative writing class. I pulled together the various pages, then continued writing until the manuscript was complete. It’s by chance that I’m publishing this during a pandemic. Though the characters here surviv

