<p><strong><em>Royals like Dora d'Arc manage the human herd; they don't fall in love with rebels like Caellum Nichols that face execution for challenging imperial reign.</em></strong></p><ul><li><strong>WINNER:</strong>&nbsp;Pinnacle Book Achievement Award - Best Science/Fantasy Fiction</li><li><strong>BRONZE MEDAL:</strong>&nbsp;Readers' Favorite Book Awards 2021 - Visionary Fiction</li><li><strong>FINALIST:</strong>&nbsp;American Book Fest - Best Book Awards - Visionary Fiction</li></ul><p>The Imperial Governor wrestles with worries about dangers that lurk in the Zone of Destruction, demands from his off-world reptilian handler, approaching famine, and the urgency to inject the restless population with docility-inducing nanites.</p><p>Dora holds a secret meeting with citizens and weds Rolf Scholtz. Meanwhile, Caellum escapes prison, a van loaded with vials of nanites appears at a local school to inject the children, and a stranger approaches from the ZD.</p><p><strong>EVOLVED PUBLISHING PRESENTS</strong>&nbsp;a compelling speculative/visionary tale, with post-apocalyptic elements, to bring the past full circle into the future, in this second book in the "New Earth Chronicles" series.</p>