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“The Remnants” is a post-apocalyptic, fictional journey through a broken landscape of small town Appalachia, where love and hope are stretched thin, and where the journey to save one little girl becomes the only thing a small group of survivors clings to in an effort to save the child, but also to save themselves.
The bunker began as little more than a hobby, but when every semblance of humanity fell away, and ragged bands of survivors descended into an almost feral existence, Billy Ballit grew increasingly thankful for his bizarre hideaway and increasingly alarmed when he suddenly had to leave it behind. Billy and his teenage son, Johnny, are forced from their secret safe house into an unrecognizable world filled with remnants of a shattered civilization when their lone surviving neighbor learns that her missing daughter has been discovered nearby. Embarking on an expedition to save the girl from unknown dangers in a society gone to hell, and with the curious visions of a mentally challenged stranger as their only guide, the Ballits encounter the awful reality of the new, mad world and the desperate lengths that humans will go to protect their lives.
Local readers will find the setting familiar from–Ohiopyle to West Virginia and everything in between, the author describes in vivid detail.
“The Remnants” is available from Amazon for Kindle ($7.99).
This is the first novel from former Herald-Standard crime reporter Josh Krysak, an award-winning journalist. Krysak, an Ohiopyle native, now serves as the Community Relations Coordinator for Uniontown Hospital since leaving the world of journalism, although he continues to write in his free time – contributing analysis on the Pittsburgh Pirates at blog sites rumbunter.com and piratesbreakdown.com.
He is also working on the second book in what will likely be a trilogy exploring the new world he first revealed in “The Remnants.” Tweet him @jktypist.