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J&K 4Ever
Love in a Post-Apocalypse
Sixty years after the end of everything the city of Bluette survives, controlled by a malignant sect. It’s a place where men rule, girls receive no education and are matched at 16 to the highest bidder. Everything ‘modern’ is considered evil and prohibited. No one is ever permitted to leave the city and outside is a murderous wasteland of despair. Orphans Kruge and Jeyna are about to come of age – they have been devoted to each other through all the years of terror in this harsh regime and sworn never to be parted. But the beautiful Jeyna has been betrayed by the Warden and matched to the recently widowed Master of the Sewers, who has paid well for his bride. Kruge, the carpenter’s apprentice, has been swiftly banished to the Scraps, under the control of the Keeper. Jeyna is heartbroken; she will not accept her fate and escapes to find Kruge. She is pursued by ruthless Enforcers on horseback, whose task it is to bring runaways back, dead or alive. Jeyna hides in the outland where there are no rules; aware she knows nothing of the way of the world - only that she has to reach Kruge, or die in the attempt.
J & K 4EVER is a powerful young love story set in the bleak badlands of a ruined civilization.
Sam Hawksmoor is author of the award winning 'The Repossession' - the Genie Magee trilogy set in Canada.
Sixty years after the end of everything the city of Bluette survives, controlled by a malignant sect. It’s a place where men rule, girls receive no education and are matched at 16 to the highest bidder. Everything ‘modern’ is considered evil and prohibited. No one is ever permitted to leave the city and outside is a murderous wasteland of despair. Orphans Kruge and Jeyna are about to come of age – they have been devoted to each other through all the years of terror in this harsh regime and sworn never to be parted. But the beautiful Jeyna has been betrayed by the Warden and matched to the recently widowed Master of the Sewers, who has paid well for his bride. Kruge, the carpenter’s apprentice, has been swiftly banished to the Scraps, under the control of the Keeper. Jeyna is heartbroken; she will not accept her fate and escapes to find Kruge. She is pursued by ruthless Enforcers on horseback, whose task it is to bring runaways back, dead or alive. Jeyna hides in the outland where there are no rules; aware she knows nothing of the way of the world - only that she has to reach Kruge, or die in the attempt.
J & K 4EVER is a powerful young love story set in the bleak badlands of a ruined civilization.
Sam Hawksmoor is author of the award winning 'The Repossession' - the Genie Magee trilogy set in Canada.
324 pages, Paperback
Published May 21, 2016
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Sam Hawksmoor
20 books29 followersAugust 2025 - print and ebook
ASIN: B0FL84W8J2
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Flamenco can be Murder
A runaway housewife to Spain, a husband and father-in-law executed, a desperate search for the woman who might hold the key to a fortune.
All Nia wanted was to change her life but 'beware of what you wish for'.
2025
'Whatever Happened to Genie Magee?'
No 4 in The Repossession of Genie Magee series.
It's now ten years since we last saw Genie after the cataclysmic destruction of The Fortress. Is she still alive? If so how is her physical and mental health given all the terrible things that happened to her an her friends. I feel guilty for leaving her stranded. But something is going on. She wakes up after a car crash and has lost her memory. She has no idea who she is or why she's where she is...
'The Restoration of Ami.'
ASIN: B0CVQMH78C - Kindle USA
ISBN: 978-1-7385181-0-4 - Print UK
Pub: Hammer & Tong/KDP 2.29.24
• Sam Hawksmoor
Remy has one last obsession – to complete the restoration of his ’57 Studebaker Golden Hawk. He’s planned a road trip to Montreal to find a part he desperately needs. It’s a long way from Florida; his Chevy truck is almost as old as he is. There are doubts he’ll be able to make the drive, doubts about his bladder, his heart, but he’s determined to go.
At the very first urgent stop in the pouring rain, a dog appears from nowhere and jumps into his truck, quickly followed by a drenched teen. Scared, the girl, Ami, urgently needs a ride. She has escaped from a nearby religious cult and is desperate to find the mother who abandoned her when she was just five years old.
For Ami everything is new, all modern life was shunned at the farm. Remy worries she will be bitterly disappointed when she finally meets her mother who may not welcome her back.
One old man, a troubled teenage girl and Stan the dog are on a road trip into MAGA America where violence and grievance stalk the land. With each mile they travel towards Montreal it seems to get further away.
'Fabulous, can't-put-down story with quirky, original characters, a loveable dog and a great adventure'. ***** Roxy West on Goodreads. 8.28.24
‘It’s a terrific story with engaging, interesting characters. What a wonderful dog!’
Walli Leff – New York
August 2022: Crime Fiction
The Book of Ashes published - the 2nd Delaney & Asha mystery.
ISBN: 979-8-837434-952
ASIN: B0B85HFK86
"This was supposed to be a simple track and trace job. Find the writer, bank the money. Now it's a horror show." Delaney and Asha are hired to find a missing writer who took money from the client and ran. It's December in New England. It's freezing. Turns out finding the writer is the easy part. The fact that he claims he’s being watched and told not to write anything on pain of death certainly adds a complication. Delaney thinks the writer is just a drunk but it turns out it was speaking the truth. Someone really does want him dead. But why? What did he discover whilst researching the book he was supposed to be writing? What did the old man with dementia tell him?
For Sci-Fi lovers:
Mission Longshot - How far will you go to save one life?
A trillion miles from home Celeste Kandar (14) is abruptly woken after an asteroid strike on her colony ship and discovers everyone is dead but her. She has been in stasis 23 years. One thing she is certain of, no one would be foolish enough to cross the whole universe to save her. Especially if it might cost their lives too. She is alone with one maintenance bot for company.
Stella is testing the first light-speed ship. The only chance they have to save Celeste. On her return, no one answers her calls and Florida is no longer flooded. Cities across the world still shine at night, which is illegal.
Landing on Ochee Island, she discovers trees instead of a space research platform. Stella, crippled by gravity, is rescued by three space geeks, Gerry, Kali and Jolene, out hunting
ASIN: B0FL84W8J2
The Days After She Went Dancing
Flamenco can be Murder
A runaway housewife to Spain, a husband and father-in-law executed, a desperate search for the woman who might hold the key to a fortune.
All Nia wanted was to change her life but 'beware of what you wish for'.
2025
'Whatever Happened to Genie Magee?'
No 4 in The Repossession of Genie Magee series.
It's now ten years since we last saw Genie after the cataclysmic destruction of The Fortress. Is she still alive? If so how is her physical and mental health given all the terrible things that happened to her an her friends. I feel guilty for leaving her stranded. But something is going on. She wakes up after a car crash and has lost her memory. She has no idea who she is or why she's where she is...
'The Restoration of Ami.'
ASIN: B0CVQMH78C - Kindle USA
ISBN: 978-1-7385181-0-4 - Print UK
Pub: Hammer & Tong/KDP 2.29.24
• Sam Hawksmoor
Remy has one last obsession – to complete the restoration of his ’57 Studebaker Golden Hawk. He’s planned a road trip to Montreal to find a part he desperately needs. It’s a long way from Florida; his Chevy truck is almost as old as he is. There are doubts he’ll be able to make the drive, doubts about his bladder, his heart, but he’s determined to go.
At the very first urgent stop in the pouring rain, a dog appears from nowhere and jumps into his truck, quickly followed by a drenched teen. Scared, the girl, Ami, urgently needs a ride. She has escaped from a nearby religious cult and is desperate to find the mother who abandoned her when she was just five years old.
For Ami everything is new, all modern life was shunned at the farm. Remy worries she will be bitterly disappointed when she finally meets her mother who may not welcome her back.
One old man, a troubled teenage girl and Stan the dog are on a road trip into MAGA America where violence and grievance stalk the land. With each mile they travel towards Montreal it seems to get further away.
'Fabulous, can't-put-down story with quirky, original characters, a loveable dog and a great adventure'. ***** Roxy West on Goodreads. 8.28.24
‘It’s a terrific story with engaging, interesting characters. What a wonderful dog!’
Walli Leff – New York
August 2022: Crime Fiction
The Book of Ashes published - the 2nd Delaney & Asha mystery.
ISBN: 979-8-837434-952
ASIN: B0B85HFK86
"This was supposed to be a simple track and trace job. Find the writer, bank the money. Now it's a horror show." Delaney and Asha are hired to find a missing writer who took money from the client and ran. It's December in New England. It's freezing. Turns out finding the writer is the easy part. The fact that he claims he’s being watched and told not to write anything on pain of death certainly adds a complication. Delaney thinks the writer is just a drunk but it turns out it was speaking the truth. Someone really does want him dead. But why? What did he discover whilst researching the book he was supposed to be writing? What did the old man with dementia tell him?
For Sci-Fi lovers:
Mission Longshot - How far will you go to save one life?
A trillion miles from home Celeste Kandar (14) is abruptly woken after an asteroid strike on her colony ship and discovers everyone is dead but her. She has been in stasis 23 years. One thing she is certain of, no one would be foolish enough to cross the whole universe to save her. Especially if it might cost their lives too. She is alone with one maintenance bot for company.
Stella is testing the first light-speed ship. The only chance they have to save Celeste. On her return, no one answers her calls and Florida is no longer flooded. Cities across the world still shine at night, which is illegal.
Landing on Ochee Island, she discovers trees instead of a space research platform. Stella, crippled by gravity, is rescued by three space geeks, Gerry, Kali and Jolene, out hunting
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October 7, 2017
Very good, cold, austere, paints a graphic picture of a post-nuclear war society with the terrible destruction involved. But the author paints hope. Would be nice to read again as it offers a sobering reality of "nothingness" that we could find ourselves into with the possession of weapons of mass destruction leading to the destruction of the post-industrial society we are currently living into. A nice narrative of two young lovers breaking out of the clench of Ministers and their imposition of an austere community because this they feel this is what would preserve their newly-reduced rudimentary life.
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