Goodreads asked Chris Foster:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Chris Foster The idea for my latest book 'Shards' came from the local media talking about the ice (crystal meth) epidemic spreading across the country. Then my house was broken into by addicts. The local police knew the culprits but refused to arrest them. It was a strange time. All I could think was one day the cartels and criminals would rule in place of government.

And so began the birth of Shard, a new Las Vegas city that has crumbled in the dystopian future. A city built in an open cut mine, an open grave in a dying world. It's streets were white with the snow that wasn't snow, ice that wasn't water. In among the dealers, the users and the halfbreeds lived a family. A family who just wanted to keep to themselves.

A family who were savagely turn apart and in their desperation to find each other made difficult choices, the kind of which they had never ever considered...

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