sophie littlefield

Awakening in a bleak landscape as scarred as her body, Cass Dollar vaguely recalls surviving something terrible. Wearing unfamiliar clothes and having no idea how many days or weeks have passed, she slowly realises the horrifying truth Ruthie, her daughter, has vanished.

And with her, nearly all of civilisation, too. Where once–lush hills carried cars and commerce, the roads today see only cannibalistic Beaters people turned hungry for human flesh by a government experiment gone wrong.

In a broken, barren California, Cass will undergo a harrowing quest to get her daughter back. Few people trust an outsider, let alone a woman who became a zombie and somehow turned back, but she finds help from the enigmatic outlaw, Smoke.

Smoke is her saviour, and her safety. For the Beaters are out there, and the humans grip at survival with their trigger fingers. Especially when they learn that she and Ruthie have become the most feared and desired weapons in a brave new world

Bestselling author Sophie Littlefield weaves a powerful tale of stolen innocence and survival that echoes through generations, reverberating between mothers and daughters. It is a moving chronicle of injustice, triumph and the unspeakable acts we commit in the name of love.

Lucy Takeda is just fourteen years old, living in Los Angeles, when the bombs rain down on Pearl Harbor. Within weeks, she and her mother, Miyako, are ripped from their home, rounded up – along with thousands of other innocent Japanese–Americans – and taken to the Manzanar prison camp.

Buffeted by blistering heat and choking dust, Lucy and Miyako must endure the harsh living conditions of the camp. Corruption and abuse creep into every corner of Manzanar, eventually ensnaring beautiful, vulnerable Miyako. Ruined and unwilling to surrender her daughter to the same fate, Miyako soon breaks. Her final act of desperation will stay with Lucy forever...and spur her to sins of her own.

Of living things there were none. But they carried on. Cass Dollar has survived the worst Aftertime has to offer: civilisation's meltdown, humans turned mindless cannibals, men visiting and revisiting evil upon one another. If Cass can overcome the worst of what's inside her – After all, she was once a Beater herself, until she mysteriously healed – Then their journey may finally end. And a new horizon will be born.

Bestselling author Sophie Littlefield delivers a riveting, ripped–from–the–headlines story about a family put to the ultimate test when two men take them hostage inside their home.

Jen Glass has worked hard to achieve the ideal life: a successful career, a beautiful home in an affluent suburb of Minneapolis, a seemingly perfect family. But inside the Glass house, everything is spinning out of Jen's control. Her marriage to her husband, Ted, is on the brink of collapse; her fifteen–year–old daughter grows more distant each day; and her five–year–old son barely speaks a word. Jen is on the verge of breaking, but nothing could have prepared her for what is to come….

On an evening that was supposed to be like any other, two men force their way into the Glasses' home, but what begins as a common robbery takes an even more terrifying turn. Held hostage in the basement for more than forty–eight hours, Jen and Ted must put aside their differences if they have any hope of survival. They will stop at nothing to keep their family safe–even if it means risking their own lives. A taut and emotional tale of a family brought together by extraordinary forces, House of Glass is a harrowing exploration of the lengths a mother will go to protect her children, and the power of tragedy to teach us what truly matters.

The end of the world was just the beginning

Civilization has fallen, leaving California an unforgiving, decimated place. But Cass Dollar beat terrible odds to get her missing daughter back she and Ruthie will be happy.

Yet with the first winter, Cass is reminded that happiness is fleeting in Aftertime. Ruthie retreats into silence.

Flesh eating Beaters still dominate the landscape. And Smoke, Cass's lover and strength, departs on a quest for vengeance, one that may end him even if he returns.The survivalist community Cass has planted roots in is breaking apart, too. Its leader, Dor, implores Cass to help him recover his own lost daughter, taken by the totalitarian Rebuilders. And soon Cass finds herself thrust into the dark heart of an organization promising humanity's rebirth at all costs.

Bound to two men blazing divergent paths across a savage land, Cass must overcome the darkness in her wounded heart, or lose those she loves forever.

Cass Dollar outlasted the fall of civilisation. But surviving Aftertime requires the kind of toughness that can conquer the violent landscape of California and still retain its humanity.

When a young boy and his dying grandmother are brought to the Box, the survivalist community where Cass takes shelter, she realises that without her help he won't be long for this unforgiving new world. But while the Box is a haven from the roaming marauders –– and the flesh–hungry Beaters –– it forbids children within its confines. The boy will be turned out to fend for himself. All that stands between him and the brutal wilderness is Cass's protective instincts, and the stubborn resolve that's gotten her this far Aftertime.