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by Lorna Brockway Lieske (Author)
Thirty-eight years have passed since The Revanche - the extreme-sanction response to a catastrophic act of terrorism that decimated global population and left presidents and potentates alike flailing in its wake. Having grown up in the dictatorial morass that emerged from the wreckage of the former United States, Valaria Thorpe has known nothing else. Beginning life as the Eugenics-approved offspring of privileged government workers, she ultimately was raised by a grandfather exiled to the Borders as a result of having a personal philosophy that veered decidedly away from popular dogma; a man who walked an extremely fine line between what was acceptable and what very definitely was not. Now on her own following his death, Valaria's life is about to take a dramatic turn when she meets an enigmatic stranger who has come looking for her grandfather, insisting that he held the key to restoring freedom to the hapless survivors of terrorism.
Author Biography
Lorna Brockway Lieske is an award-winning educator who has taught American History and U.S. Government for more than 25 years. Although she'll tell you she found her calling in the classroom, Lorna has been a story-teller from childhood - spending summer evenings with friends in Tucson, Arizona weaving tales with her sister for neighborhood adventures they billed as "Story-Come-True." Lorna's love of story-telling followed her into the classroom where her original curriculum materials include educational short stories and plays on topics ranging from the French and Indian War and Westward Expansion to the Bill of Rights, the U.S. legal system, and basic economics. Lorna lives in Michigan with the love of her life, her husband Richard, and their dog, a loveable, loyal - and irrepressible - Shiba Inu named Riley.
