The Fortress, Book 1
A Post-Apocalyptic Survival Thriller
Date Published: August 29, 2023
We are the fortress, and the fortress is us.
Sim was a teacher in his old life. Now he’s the savior of orphans.
He isn’t their father. God knows he has already failed in that role. But he
is their guide. And the kids? They are his penance. His redemption.
For three years Sim has prepared his orphans for the hard realities of life
after the plague that wiped out most of the global population. Theirs is a
life without laws or creature comforts. He has trained them to forage and
grow their own food, to be vigilant, and to protect themselves and each
other by any means necessary. In building a fortress of brick and mortar,
they’ve become a fortress of flesh and blood.
These allegiances and ideals are put to the test when a man named Zagan,
who believes himself to be on a mission for the devil to bring about the
destruction of civilization’s remains, gathers hundreds of marauders and
confronts Sim and his orphans in a merciless siege.
Will the fortress hold… Or will it collapse under the pressure of
evil?
EXCERPT
It’s bigger than Magic Kingdom.
“It’s our fortress, indeed.”
“Is that what we’ll call it?” she asked. “Not a kingdom?”
“A kingdom sounds a lot bigger than what we have here. That we have
here is just a small part of a kingdom. Maybe from here we can build a
kingdom. Anyway, there is an expression I remember from all the reading
I used to do.”
“I like to read too,” Elizabeth said. “Next time we go out we have to find
more books for the library.”
About the Author
T.A. Styles earned his B.S. in Elementary Education and Mathematics and his
M.S. in Developmental Reading. He taught in elementary and junior high
schools for twelve years before launching his own childcare enterprise, TSL
Kids Crew, which he has operated since 2009. He has had a passion for
writing stories since he was a teenager, as it was a hobby and skill for
which he realized at a young age he had a knack for and loved. He has two
grown children and has traveled extensively including to Iceland, Australia,
Greece, Italy, South America, and many other places nationally and
internationally.
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