Badlands Born Special Edition
A 3+1 Badlands Born Series Omnibus

“This story is an unexpected surprise. While I expected a rough ride for the characters, the apocalyptic scenes drove the tale into the kind of horrifying adventure one cannot put down. Once I started, I couldn’t stop, had to read until I finished it. I particularly liked the use of music as a device to escape – highly imaginative and another surprise …”
-Goodreads Review
“Badlands Born is a dark thriller that kept my heart beating quickly. The book also does a great job at being a little funny, a little sexy, a little spooky and a whole lot of awesome!”
-Amazon Review
The Badlands Born series has been ten years in the making, fever-dream that refused fitting into a single novel. It’s my own love letter to the 1980s and the awesome absurdity of its pop culture excess, Mad Max movies, hair metal music videos, and cult shows etched into my brain.
These tales have everything I’ve wanted in a series: a hero starting from scratch, gritty action, unique magic, post-apocalyptic monsters, romance, betrayal, loss, and redemption. These heroes all have their flaws and don’t always get along, but when they band together, they can overcome any obstacle.
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She tried to take the easy way out. But life after death is killer…
Jasmine Shaw believed being dead would solve all her problems. But instead of reconnecting with her deceased twin brother, she wakes up in a grim desert afterlife where zombies want to munch on her brains. And no sooner does she escape that fate than she’s pursued by an indestructible psycho samurai.
Harried and terrified, Jasmine teams up with an Eighties glam-rocker wannabe to navigate the unforgiving landscape. But with a horde of flesh-eaters and the katana-wielding nutjob hot on their heels, all roads seem to lead to ruin.
Will Jasmine find her sibling at the passage to Heaven, or will she be skewered by a warrior’s blade?
Badlands Born is the first book in the gritty post-apocalyptic Badlands Born fantasy series. If you like complex heroines, gruesome ghouls, and Eighties Easter eggs, you’ll love this page-turning tale.
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Badlands Born is a dark thriller that kept my heart beating quickly. The book also does a great job at being a little funny, a little sexy, a little spooky and a whole lot of awesome!
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– Amazon Review
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