


Books in series

#1
The Rain
2013
There are a lot of stories about how the rain started.
The thing that always comes to mind first isn’t the how though, it’s the how much. Russell still does the math too: 15, 5,400, and 8,550. 15 inches a day, 5,400 a year, and 8,550 feet since the start.
We have no idea if it’s accurate. But it’s important to think about it, he says, because it reminds us to keep moving. I’m Tanner. Russell plucked me from the rain when I was two.
Fourteen years ago we left Philadelphia. As the water rose, we moved west, hoping the elevation would keep us warm and dry. Pittsburg, Indianapolis, Sioux Falls, Rapid City. Now we’re stranded on the islands in Wyoming. Russell thinks they used to be the Bighorn mountains. But we can’t go back now. There’s no warm and there’s no dry anymore. Just a rumor about a place where it isn't raining. So we’re going to try to make it—520 miles south to Leadville. But we can’t drift east, the Great Plains have become waterspout alley, a raging tomb of moving water.
Together we push on, surviving, heading to Leadville. But something is wrong with him now. He says it’s nothing. But his breathing doesn’t sound that way.
Exposure, pruned hands, and infection. But since, Rapid City, it’s the face eaters too. And the crack in the canoe that’s growing. And the ice I think I see on the water. Russell thinks it’s my imagination.
We cling to the last strips of the veneer. And each other.

#2
The Snow
2014
\\\THIS IS THE SEQUEL TO THE RAIN, BOOK 2 IN THE RAIN TRILOGY\\\ \\\It contains all 5 parts of The Snow\\\
A one way trip to investigate Leadville ends in Russell's mysterious disappearance. But Ernest can't wait it out any longer. The strange skies force his hand. But he let's Tanner decide. And there's no choice. They trek into the Rocky mountain sea.
The weather only gets stranger, yet it may serve as a clue about what happened to Russell. Somewhere, way out in the mountains, there is a spot of pure white. Either Tanner, Dusty, Voley and Ernest push in, or leave their loved ones behind.
Find out what happens in the frigid sequel to The Rain, The Snow (Book 2 of THE RAIN TRILOGY)

#2
The Rain - Part 1
2013
There are a lot of stories about how the rain started.
The thing that always comes to mind first isn’t the how though, it’s the how much. Russell still does the math too: 15, 5,400, and 8,550. 15 inches a day, 5,400 a year, and 8,550 feet since the start.
We have no idea if it’s accurate. But it’s important to think about it, he says, because it reminds us to keep moving. I’m Tanner. Russell plucked me from the rain when I was two.
Fourteen years ago we left Philadelphia. As the water rose, we moved west, hoping the elevation would keep us warm and dry. Pittsburg, Indianapolis, Sioux Falls, Rapid City. Now we’re stranded on the islands in Wyoming. Russell thinks they used to be the Bighorn mountains. But we can’t go back now. There’s no warm and there’s no dry anymore. Just a rumor about a place where it isn't raining. So we’re going to try to make it—520 miles south to Leadville. But we can’t drift east, the Great Plains have become waterspout alley, a raging tomb of moving water.
Together we push on, surviving, heading to Leadville. But something is wrong with him now. He says it’s nothing. But his breathing doesn’t sound that way.
Exposure, pruned hands, and infection. But since, Rapid City, it’s the face eaters too. And the crack in the canoe that’s growing. And the ice I think I see on the water. Russell thinks it’s my imagination.
We cling to the last strips of the veneer. And each other.

#3
The Blue
2014
This is the final book in the Rain Trilogy!
This is the Omnibus Edition and includes all 5 parts.
With Ernest gone, and an ice-filled sea of mist and fog, Russell and Tanner have started to let their last hopes of finding the Resilience slip away. And food and fuel and ammo are almost gone. But there's something worse out there. Something is stalking them.
The long struggle for survival begins its last chapter, with the great movement across the pack, with the last friends to ever know. A final quest toward the blue.

#8
The Blue - Part 5
2014
In the final part to the trilogy, Tanner faces her darkest night. Read the exciting conclusion to The Rain trilogy.
Author

Joseph A. Turkot
Author · 16 books
Joseph Turkot is the author of eight novels and many short stories. He began writing as an independent author, and The Rain is his first release with Blackstone Publishing. He lives in South Jersey, and when not writing, he dreams of the day when he’ll be able to open an animal sanctuary.