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Burn District
Series · 4 books · 2014-2022

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Burn District

2014

Laura and Mike Davis and their four children build an idyllic life with friends and family nearby in the beautiful Brandywine River Valley. Dreams and goals come to an abrupt end soon after Hurricane Sandy hits the east coast. Discovered in wood soaked by seawater, a virus thought to have the potential to decimate the population becomes the excuse to relocate thousands of citizens from beach towns. Fire is the only known way to eradicate the virus. Rumors spread that napalm is used to burn without evacuating the people. A neighbor warns Laura and Mike that their town is next as the destruction moves inland. Is it a drastic way to halt the spread of disease, or is there another catalyst?
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Yuma

2014

What do you do when the world as you know it ends? Run!! Laura and Mike Davis built an idyllic life with their four children, friends and family nearby in the beautiful Brandywine River Valley. Dreams and goals came to an abrupt end soon after Hurricane Sandy hit the east coast. The media reported that a virus was discovered in wood soaked by seawater, thought to have the potential to decimate the population. It became the excuse to relocate thousands of citizens from the coast, burning entire beach towns, the only known way to eradicate the virus, possibly the gateway to the Apocalypse. Soon, rumors spread that napalm is what the authorities used to burn without evacuating the people. A neighbor warned Laura and Mike that their town would be next as the destruction moves inland. Is it a drastic way to halt the spread of disease, or is there another catalyst? In survivalist mode during the post-apocalyptic time, the family uses the doomsday prepper skills Mike has acquired in his quest for self-sufficiency and to save the life of his family, including his amazing son who was born with Downs syndrome. Burn District, Jenkins new science fiction series, follows an American family as they flee from political insanity to save their lives in the Arizona Desert.
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Burn District 2

2016

After the New Year, Jenna Hayward regretfully accepted that she had waited too long to leave Jacksonville for her father's Arizona ranch. An unknown benefactor provided buses for the stragglers last minute exodus. While she waited to board with the other doubters, her sister, Laura, and father, Steve toiled along with the rest of the camp dwellers, attempting to turn the barren desert into a homestead. At the end of book #1, as they tried to settle in to a new life, waves of pandemonium hitting the camp became the new normal. The camp dwellers asked themselves if they'd found asylum in the desert, or was the illusion of safety a flimsy veil?
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Burn District 3

2022

High school sweethearts, Laura and Mike Davis have one goal, and that is to keep their family together after an apocalypse. Four families, a platoon of Marines and an underground group of revolutionaries make up the settlers who work at making a camp in the Arizona desert their home. But when the supply chain dwindles to nothing, they make the devastating decision to leave everything behind and move. The Canadian border is open to US Citizens for a short time, so they pack up what they are able to take and head north. When they are less than a hundred miles away, the border closes. With Laura’s sister Jenna Hayward leading the group, they decide to take their chances and go back to Arizona, to the land their father owns. The only caveat? What happened to the camp in their absence? Once they return to the camp, Mike makes a life changing decision that Laura can only support, even though it may end up costing her a marriage.

Author

Suzanne Jenkins
Suzanne Jenkins
Author · 132 books

Suzanne Jenkins lives at the west Michigan lakeshore. She is the author of Pam of Babylon and the series; Don’t You Forget About Me,Dream Lover, Prayers for the Dying, Family Dynamics and The Tao of Pam. The Greeks of Beaubien Street,and The Princess of Greektown from the Greektown Stories, Alice's Summertime Adventure, The Savant of Chelsea and Someone Like You. https://www.facebook.com/suzannejenki... Twitter @suzannejenkins3

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