Rich Bruno, once a nineteen-year-old Miner, now has the opportunity to move from his poor Home City of Adlington to the wealthier Market City of Espington. He and a group of young Miners are transported via carriage to their new life. En route to Espington, the carriage is struck by a wood bomb. Several Miners are injured, a few are killed, and Bruno believes he sees a mysterious red-haired man that may or may not have been on the carriage to begin with. 
     Getting to Espington was not easy for Bruno.
     Starting a new life there will be even harder.

I hope you enjoy Book One of the Piner Trilogy.

The Ones Who Live in Espington

Espington Square flooded with Piners and Vikings alike; all of the Gates and Alleys were overrun by now. Many of the Guard had no choice but to ditch their guns and resort to physical combat as their enemies neared. All of the Guard who could still shoot continued to do so: from the Walls, from their Humvees, from the roofs. Piners and Critters began to scale the Walls and it was only a matter of time before the structures were swarmed. Bruno stood on the Guard House steps firing bullets at the nearby rodents. He could not believe how the Critters only attacked the Guard and not the Piners nor the Vikings. The Piners must have domesticated the rats for they obeyed their every command. Bruno watched as a horde of Critters climbed up the outhouse and mauled two Guard to death after a Piner pointed to the roof of the small building. 


The War of the Pines