The Summer the World Ended by Matthew Cox
Genre: contemporary family drama
Publisher: Curiosity Quills
Press
Date of Release: June 29, 2015
Cover Artist: Eugene
Teplitsky
Description:
As
far as Riley McCullough is concerned, her best friend getting ‘dragged’ off to
Puerto Vallarta for the first two weeks of summer vacation was the end of the
world―at least until the bombs fell.
Life
in suburban New Jersey with her mother has been comfortable, not to mention
boring, to an introverted fourteen year old. As if her friend’s surprise trip
wasn’t bad enough, her expectations for the ‘best summer ever’ disintegrate
when she gets sent across the country to stay with a father she hasn’t seen in
six years. Adjusting to a tiny, desert town where everyone stares at them like
they don’t belong proves difficult, and leaves her feeling more isolated than
ever. To make matters worse, her secretive father won’t tell the truth about
why he left―or what he’s hiding.
Her
luck takes an unexpected turn for the better when she meets a boy who shares
her interest in video games and contempt for small town boredom. In him, she
finds a kindred spirit who might just make the middle of nowhere tolerable.
Happiness
is short lived; fleeing nuclear Armageddon, she takes shelter with her dad in
an underground bunker he’d spent years preparing. After fourteen days without
sun, Riley must overcome the sorrow of losing everything to save the one person
she cares about most.
About The Author:
Born in a little
town known as South Amboy NJ in 1973, Matthew has been creating science fiction
and fantasy worlds for most of his reasoning life. Somewhere between fifteen to
eighteen of them spent developing the world in which Division Zero, Virtual
Immortality, and The Awakened Series take place. He has several other projects
in the works as well as a collaborative science fiction endeavor with author
Tony Healey.
Hobbies
and Interests: Matthew is an avid gamer, a recovered WoW addict, Gamemaster for
two custom systems (Chronicles of Eldrinaath [Fantasy] and Divergent Fates [Sci
Fi], and a fan of anime, British humour (<- deliberate), and intellectual
science fiction that questions the nature of reality, life, and what happens
after it. He is also fond of cats.
Find Matthew Cox Online:
Curiosity Quills Press (CQ) is a
small hybrid publishing company specializing in genre fiction of the highest
quality. With 150+ titles in our catalog already and approximately 6 new books
coming out each month, there’s never a dull moment at CQ. We work with major
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Founded in 2011 by Eugene Teplitsky
and Lisa Gus, CQ was initially a resource portal for writing and publishing,
created in an effort to help writers, like themselves, survive the publishing
industry. After rapid success, CQ morphed into publishing press that over time
has solidified its share in the market. Now we spend our days searching for the
next great escape!
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