Chlidren of the Forest

In this story six people go thru the same events, each with their own take on the happenings. They each go thru much the same time line but each knows a little bit more about the events than the one before. Some might notice this is the same structure as ‘Aluminum Quest’ and other novels from the Gordon’s Lamp series.
There are three major crimes and several lesser ones that all the characters have some degree of involvement in. There are also three ‘love affairs,’ though I’ll give you fair warning, none are what one would call a formula romance since none of the participants is within a million dollars of what it takes to be in formula romance. Also, none of the females involved in these romances is so intoxicated by the pheromones that she loses her senses. In other words, this is romance in the real world.

There is just enough sex in here to earn the ‘adult’ label. It is more of a crime novel or mystery than erotica. As a detective story, the reader will eventually know everything that went down, but the investigators will not.

But more than romance, more than mystery, this is about the consequences of an economy that is constantly pushing people out of the ‘lifeboat’ that is civilization and what they just might have to do to survive. Most can do so peacefully but some have been trained only for war so peace is not a part of their way of life.

This was written between 2010 and 2012 but never published at the time because the area did recover and the teen homeless camps are now gone. It has been revised slightly, but is still told from a 2012 point of view, before the recovery and before the division in our society became so extreme and so all-pervasive. Were this re-written to take place today it would be a much different story, the crimes would be more politically motivated and less economically motivated. In today’s climate many of the characters could not live where and how they do. I bet we never thought we’d look back on the days of the financial collapse with such nostalgia.