Everything Under the Sun

Jessica Redmerski


Genre: Dystopian YA/NA Crossover


Date of Publication: August 28, 2017



ISBN: 1546413081
ASIN: B074W372G6

Number of pages: 657
Word Count: 203K

Cover Image by Perrywinkle Photography
Cover Design by Okay Creations

Tagline: Can love survive in such dark times, or is it fated to die with them?

Book Description:

Thais Fenwick was eleven-years-old when civilization fell, devastated by a virus that killed off the majority of the world’s population. For seven years, Thais and her family lived in a community of survivors deep in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains. But when her town is attacked by raiders, she and her blind sister are taken away to the East-Central Territory where she is destined to live the cruel and unjust kind of life her late mother warned her about.

Atticus Hunt is a troubled soldier in Lexington City who has spent the past seven years trying to conform to the vicious nature of men in a post-apocalyptic society. He knows that in order to survive, he must abandon his morals and his conscience and become like those he is surrounded by. But when he meets Thais, morals and conscience win out over conformity, and he risks his rank and his life to help her. They escape the city and set out together on a long and perilous journey to find safety in Shreveport, Louisiana.

Struggling to survive in a world without electricity, food, shelter, and clean water, Atticus and Thais shed their fear of growing too close, and they fall hopelessly in love. But can love survive in such dark times, or is it fated to die with them?


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 Excerpt 3

 “Why are you so angry, Atticus?” My voice was soft and concerned now.
He blinked, but offered no response.
“I’ve seen men fight before,” I went on, “but I’ve never seen a man as angry at the
world as you are. The way you beat that man in your room”—I shook my head with
despondency—“the one just now; Atticus, you’re just so full of rage and hate.
Why?”
He snorted, as if he’d found my question ridiculous.
“Why?” he mocked incredulously, holding
out his hands, palms up. “I’ll tell you why, Thais: at every turn someone wants
to rob or maim or kill us; we can’t sleep, night or day, without the thought in
our heads as we close our fucking eyes that we might not wake up.” He gestured
his arms wildly, his features constricted with indignation. “We’re covering our
shit up like animals, sleeping in ditches, watching over our shoulder every
second of every day for the chaos to grab us by the ankles and pull us down
with it—and you ask why?”
I sat against my quilt, unable to stand to hear this truth. And as if his movements
depended on mine, Atticus fell into a crouch in front of me, bouncing on the
toes of his boots. I never looked away from the pull of his gaze, trapped by the
intensity of it.
“I haven’t slept since you arrived in Lexington City,” he went on. “When I saw you
that day, clutching your sister as she was ripped away from you; when you lay
on the sidewalk, begging me to help you—it did two things to me, Thais”—he held
up two fingers, and then dropped them between his legs—“it fucking killed me;
the things I had to do, the part I had to play in not only your fate, but the
fate of every girl in those ropes—it fucking killed me! It killed what little was left of my humanity!” His voice had risen with his heated words, his memories, but then he paused to calm
himself, lowering his head but for a moment.
I remained motionless, speechless, but my heart began to ache and fill up at the
same time. I listened raptly to every word, my heart breaking as he spoke them.
“It killed me,” he repeated. “But then something reached into Hell, grabbed me by
the throat and pulled me back. I died that day in the street, Thais Fenwick; I
died and then there I was, looking down at you with the eyes of the man I used
to be, and I wanted to help you. I still fought with myself after that, but I
wasn’t going to let you die or be raped or forced to marry a man you didn’t
love—I didn’t know what to do, but I
was going to do something, goddammit.”
I sighed. I wanted to hold him, but all I could do was sigh.


About the Author:

Jessica Redmerski is a New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, international bestseller, and award winner, who juggles several different genres. She began self-publishing in 2012, and later with the success of THE EDGE OF NEVER, signed on with Grand Central Publishing/Forever Romance. Her works have been translated into more than twenty languages.

Jessica is a hybrid author who, in addition to working with a traditional publisher, also continues to self-publish. Her popular crime and suspense series, In the Company of Killers, has been optioned for television in the United States by actor and model William Levy, and a film exclusive to the Dominican Republic.

She also writes as J.A. Redmerski.

Web Site: http://jessicaredmerski.com/

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5437976.J_A_Redmerski

Twitter: https://twitter.com/JRedmerski


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