After the Pulse
In the year 2077, the Pulse, a High-alititude Electromagnetic Pulse (HEMP), has combined with a solar event to plunge the world into darkness, knocking out anything electronic. Solar radiation kills off around 99% of the Earth’s population in a matter of years.
Through a quirk in the Earth’s electromagnetic field, things like magnets and crystals now act differently, leading to many new technological innovations from perpetual motion machines, immensely-powerful plasma rifles and even the unlocking human brain’s innate telepathic abilities.
This series follows the survivors and their stories, centred around the city of Perth and all along the southwestern coast of Australia. Whether they’re a telepath with newly-discovered powers or simply a man trying to flee the dangers of the newly-blackened city, humanity’s connection through family and friends is a constant theme through the thrilling action and even mystery!
The Council: A Psi’s Revenge
Book One of After the Pulse
You come home to find your father murdered and the killers' cold and brutal thoughts suddenly flash inside your head. They're waiting for you...
Jatz is a low-level Psi working for the Company in southwest Australia's biggest territory, helping them rebuild society from near-extinction in the previous century before he's launched headlong into the hunt for his father's murderer and the desperate search for answers to his past and to his new abilities.
Dukan is doing hard labour across the territory as he slowly plots his escape, and his revenge. Wrongly-convicted, he keeps his telepathic abilities as secretive as his shadowy past, never knowing how intimately-entwined it is with Jatz's family history, nor that both seek the same sadistic killer.
Aided by new friends and his ex-boyfriend, Jatz will learn to harness power mankind has never known while stubbornly flinging himself into trouble while Dukan struggles to balance obsession with compassion for kindred broken souls like himself. They'll both need all the help they can get as they take on an internal hit squad, The Council, bent on toppling the territory's leadership and reforging it under the same man they're after.
Station Eleven meets The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in this action-packed thrill-ride through dystopian Western Australia.
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Book two of After the Pulse
Crazed zealots from a powerful cult are carrying out violent attacks across the Company Territory while a shadowy Assassin targets Guards and Psis for revenge, or for something bigger.
Sori finds herself almost single-handedly running the entire Company territory after a failed coup and she'll need all the help she can get from Edge Guards Jatz and Raysha, along with the enigmatic Dukan, all powerful telepaths and the people closest to her.
But a new threat has emerged. A mysterious and telepath of substantial power is assassinating Company employees in conjunction with attacks from The Unholies, a vicious offshoot from the religious cult that controls nearly the entire south of Western Australia.
On top if it all, Sori's mother reappears in her life after sixteen years, but makes no effort at amends for her abandoning her as a child, acting haughty and removed instead. Sori will need to protect her own long-buried feelings while she and her friends find a way to protect the Company.
Each carries their own secrets though, and the truth might tear the entire Territory apart.
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