Islands

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Published by
Blue Works,
a division of
Windstorm Creative

Welcome/Bienvenidos

Islands cover art, by the author

Each day more and more people become aware of the reality of human-induced climate change. Islands provides readers a glimpse of a possible future, hundreds of years from now, in which the southwestern United States has been transformed by global warming and invasive species into a place where human beings live completely separated from the natural world.

The Story

Stuck inside a giant pyramid in a future devastated by global warming, Saskia is bored with her artificial life and yearns to experience the natural world. But unbeknownst to her and the other inhabitants of the pyramids, there are still survivors living outside. Abbie, a descendent of those who took refuge in the cooler mountains when the climate changed, is equally unaware that Saskia’s enclosed world still exists. Using her hunting and tracking skills, she and her brothers struggle to survive in a threatening wilderness overrun with invasive species, and dream of finding a place where they can live in peace.

The death of Saskia’s grandfather and Abbie’s search for a lost village eventually bring these two stories together in a meeting reminiscent of the first contact between Europeans and Native Americans, except this time the meeting is not between two separate “races,” but two girls whose ancestry comes from all over the world. Now, each girl must choose between a familiar past and the new world the other one will show her.