Tamara Hunney

The entire U.S. communication grids are down. Ignorance rules. Poisoned Los Angeles water accounts for survivors in the thousands dying by the day - among millions dead. Of the living handful who did not drink the water, Tamara Hunney, off the streets, and Sam Winterstone, a staunch Christian and impoverished screenwriter living in a trailer park beside a non-poisoned lake in horse-country, chance together and rescue 8 steers and 9 horses and, by looting the local feed and tack stores, ready them for the 1500 mile trek to find her Aunt Tillie in Denver. With feed and water on a wagon, they set off in the last of the summer weeks, and plan to winter halfway. As they travel they discover the Hoover Dam is blown. On the high desert, out of feed and they and their critters near to frostbite, they encounter a friendly town near Prescott, and a sheriff who sends them to winter at a billionaire newspaper publisher John Teal's summer ranch; he's trapped there by the apocalypse with his wives, daughters, and ranch hands. (His adopted Muslim religion allows him four wives.) Determinedly blind to Tamara's lethal street-smarts, he deprives her and Sam of their weapons, holds them prisoner, and believes he's winning her to his perversions and plans to marry her to his brutish son, Lewis. From here the story advances into a desperate chase and fatal conclusion among the Navajo of Arizona.

Kendrew Lascelles writes plays, screenplays, and novels, and lives in Southern California.

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