"Pale as Hope" - Apocalyptic Sci-Fi Novel Tests the Survival of Man

LOXAHATCHEE, Fla. - April 25, 2013 - PRLog -- Plague, warfare, and Mother Nature all threaten human survival in the bleak future of Pale As Hope.

A seemingly ordinary life is violently disrupted when a woman contracts a dread disease through a freak workplace mishap. Elsewhere, the son of a streetwalker comes into the world unwanted, but stubbornly survives. Connected only by the taint of the same disease, a down-on-his-luck singer is cursed by alcoholism that is slowly killing him.

These three separate lives are ruthlessly dragged into a worldwide apocalypse, when a Middle Eastern scientist who passionately hates the West engineers a miracle of biology: a virulent pathogen that is both virus and bacterium. Having the characteristics of both hemorrhagic fever and pneumonic plague, this lethal bug is intended for release in so-called infidel nations.

But events go awry when the lab where the pathogen has been developed is ransacked in a vendetta, releasing the virus in a bloody pandemic the likes of which has never been seen before. Pale As Hope tells the story of a dark future where a virulent blood plague, nuclear war, and a resurgent ice age all combine to test the limits of mankind’s survival.

PALE AS HOPE (ISBN: 978-1-61897-899-8) is now available for $19.95 and can be ordered through the publisher’s website:
sbpra.com/ToniVerkruysse or at www.amazon.com or www.barnesandnoble.com.

WHOLESALERS: This book is distributed by Ingram Books and other wholesale distributors. Contact your representative with the ISBN for purchase. Wholesale purchase for retailers, universities, libraries, and other organizations is also available through the publisher; please email bookorder@aeg-online-store.com.

About the Author: Toni Verkruysse has written two previous novels, Iron and Intaglio, a fantasy, and Marking Time, a work of science fiction. She also illustrated the children’s book The Legend of Herkimer Diamonds. Her next book is a historical novel that takes place in a fortress settlement on the banks of the Rhine in 13 BC. “Like a lodestone to iron, I’m drawn to tales of tragedy and transcendence, ruin and rebirth, and always to stories about outcasts and underdogs.” She has a master of arts in psychology, worked a long civil service career, has lived all over the U.S., and is now spending her retirement years in Florida.

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