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After nearly seven years of living in a settlement ran by the government, blending in was pretty simple. But things never come easy for her. One day, she is faced with letting her family slowly starve to death or face the wilderness of Colorado almost a decade after the bombs went off. Her mutation from the radiation of the bombs has marked her as different from the others in her settlement and gives the most recent decision from the government has pushed her to finally leave to give her family enough food to survive. With her brotherโs disappearance seven years before, getting away isnโt going to be fun. After enlisting the help of her younger brother, MB is ready to go. Getting out into the wastelands of Colorado wasnโt easy but she made it, but now she has to survive the harsh lands and opaque skies that surround her. While traveling, a gunshot rings out and MB witnesses a man falling. Rushing to the manโs aid after the vehicle disappears, MB is in for a shock. Nursing the man back to health, she learns his identity and fights to find out why he left his family, but she doesnโt know if she can accept it if he is ever willing to disclose it.
Meanwhile, the lullaby that has helped her maintain her calm during the harsh years of adolescence in the settlement urges her to go higher, to seek higher grounds. After the man heals, he joins her on her journey. A journey that he took once upon a time. Fighting off bandits and the radioactive wildlife MB knows that something is up. And itโs her job to figure it out. So, she climbs, she travels, to the highest peak that she can only to discover that the secret that she was trying to figure out was inside of her all along.
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JILLIAN E. THOMPSON is an author born in Colorado, United States of America. She grew up in the Denver Metro Area of Colorado and was immersed in reading and writing from a young age, attended school and started her career in education in Colorado.
Credited with authoring or self-publishing over 40+ poems and young adult titles as part of her collection. As of 2019, her poetry has been published and sold as part of poetry.com books under her maiden name JILLIAN E. LOVE as well as the beginning of her Lullaby Series through Amazon.
Jillian is married to Cliff Thompson. She has two sons, a dog, two cats, two bearded dragons, and a Russian tortoise. Her travels across the United States has brought her to over 50+ towns in over 9 states. She continues to live in the sunny and temperamental climatic state of Colorado. Her passions are self-publishing several series that embrace the idea of coming into adulthood, science-fiction, post-apocalyptic worlds, short stories, and more.
Jillian received her Bachelors of Science in Elementary Education degree from the University of Phoenix and is earning her Masters of Education degree in Special Education from Grand Canyon University. Jillian is a preschool teacher, she works with children under the age of five in gaining life skills as well as academic knowledge, such as phonics, phonemic awareness, mathematics, science, technology, the arts, as well as social studies. She continues to work every day with students in the hope of brighten the future with adults that care about the environment, literature, and are empathetic to those around them.
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