War-Torn Courier

by Adam Carter

In a city torn by civil war between the upper and lower classes, names have become meaningless and the true survivalists use titles. With the upper-class tyrant Cardinal having banned all private transport, Courier delivers her packages on foot. One of a million delivery agents, Courier lives a squalid life dodging the police thugs patrolling the streets and the private soldiers working directly for Cardinal. At home, she never bathes or washes her clothes, for her landlord is always lurking. Hardened to life, Courier sees all men as evil brutes and has learned the only way to survive is to ignore everyone else’s troubles.

When she delivers a package to the working-class resistance leader, Baronet, she is drawn into the war against her will. Cardinal has somehow discovered Courier is Baronet’s daughter and traps are set to bring her in. With the aid of her only ally, Courier escapes to the countryside, where she hopes to begin a new life, free from the horrors of war. What she discovers is something far worse.

Interacting with various contacts, Courier cannot afford to trust any of them. Expecting betrayal at every turn and with a hatred of men which increases with each encounter, Courier must become as violent as the world around her. Then she meets Laura, a woman without a title, and with her comes an opportunity for Courier’s soul to be saved. If only her heart will let her in.

325 pages, Hardcover

Published July 25, 2023

About the author

I like to tell stories. Sometimes they have to be big, sometimes they work better small. I like to write serials which can be read without reading all the ones which came before. There's nothing more off-putting than a book you can't understand! I work in as many genres as possible and read anything I can get my hands on, but have an especial love of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Alexandre Dumas. They both understood stories should be fun. Primarily I enjoy exploring characters; and the best thing about continuing fiction is gradually changing characters with whom the reader can laugh and cry and love and hate. And finally I think every book has room for humour, especially when it's inappropriate.