The Buried Sky

Coming of age after the end of the world.

The Bunker was humanity’s last hope. An underground town, sealed away from the radiation that killed everything on the surface. A lifeboat, with its own water and power and hydroponic farms to see us through the long nuclear winter.

But radiation isn’t the only thing that can kill you, and life in the Bunker has its own dangers. There are a half dozen factions that rule this town, and it’s a bad idea to get on the wrong side of any of them.

I’m one of the Brats, the kids who were born in this place and have never seen the open sky. But I’ve never fit in with the rest of them. I’m not one of the Cools, or the Geeks, or the Chosen. I’m just the weird boy who sits in the library, reading stories about the world that’s gone. But still, this is my home, too.

And now it’s dying.


The Bunker is failing. One by one, the lights are going out, and the farms are going dark. Soon there won’t be enough food to go around. And the factions are already starting to turn on each other.

Sometimes it takes an outsider to see what’s really going on. Somebody with nothing to lose.

So if anyone is gonna save this place, I guess it will have to be me.

"A fun, fast-paced book with the kind of ending that makes you immediately want to start over again to find the clues you missed the first time around." --Charles de Lint, Book Critic for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction

"A wonderfully imagined, humorous, and fascinatingly detailed thriller that hooked me immediately and wouldn't let me stop reading until I reached the last page."
--David Rambo, Producer of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Murder under the Buried Sky did something few books have ever done--it made me wish I'd written it. It's just that good. This is a gritty, twisting tale told by a man who knows how to drag you into the story and keep you there till you've read the last word."
--Selina Rosen, winner of the Pheonix Award for lifetime achievement in Science Fiction

• Post-apocalyptic new adult dystopian science fiction noir mystery with occasional sex loosely based on Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. Read at your own risk. •