Appalachian Blues (Harrowed Earth, #1) / Harrowed Earth (ePub)

Earth.

The end of the 20th Century saw the rise of superheroes, which in turn were the harbingers of a golden age of humanity.

At the dawn of the 21st Century, alien races made themselves known on Earth, having secretly had a hand in humanity's technological advances for more than a hundred years. New Orleans rose, a modern-day Atlantis. Scientific achievement exploded, bringing about cures for diseases of the body, mind, and spirit. Earth's people worked as one, hand-in-hand with the aliens toward these endeavors until the entirety of the solar system was within the grasp of a Unified Earth.

Then the true intentions of the alien races were made known. A galactic oligarchy working behind the scenes for countless years, the Ravok-Dyn, arrived in ships the size of nations to claim Earth as their own. Earth's super-powered warred against the Ravok-Dyn, culminating in the Pacific Ocean disappearing into a star-filled abyss of folded space. An event that the surviving inhabitants of Earth have since referred to as The Shift.

And the world fell.

But the people did not.

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Jedidiah Coalstream, the motorcycle mystic, is mapping out the Unknown Land -- what once had been The United States -- when he begins having strange dreams. Nightmares, warning him away from Border Town in the north. Which is why he decides to go check it out. But, traveling the land isn't as easy as all that. Many monsters, countless dangers, and restless spirits lie between here and there.

Is Jedidiah's magic up to the challenge?