As my first book, “Journey To The Black City” in the series, “After: Earth” concludes, we learn that Kel’s grandfather is not being held in the Black City—the Bishop had taken him and other kidnapped shamans into The Green. It is there that Lyria, Kel, and Raven must go in pursuit of their fellow tribes-people.

What exactly is the Green? Well, on our earth we call it South America. On my alternate universe earth, it is simply The Green. We learn that even before the Great War, the pandemic i...