One of them is a warrior survivalist named Ryan Cawdor, believed to possess pre-apocalyptic knowledge that holds hope for a beleaguered future. Among other interlopers, the city is guarded by huge winged creatures, protecting the grisly secrets of a nearby barony.

The Marshall islands, once the testing grounds for twentieth-century weapons of mass destruction, remains pervesely beautiful. As barons fight for power in a savage new America, power is claimed with the salvaged arsenals of a predark world: weapons, gasoline and those willing to kill.A nuclear apocalypse almost destroyed Western civilzation in 2001, leaving in its place the forbidding world of Deathlands.

(The SkyDark Chronicles - 2 of 3). But his true invincibility lies in his possession of stockpiles of pre-dark rapid fire missiles and a fleet of functional PT boats.

A planet ravaged by the apocalyptic blast of 2001 gave birth to a new world of savagery-and a new breed of hero. Here in this world of slavery and brutality the companions have fought a fierce war for survival, on land and sea-yet the crafty baron still conspires to destroy these interlopers. (The SkyDark Chronicles - 3 of 3). In what was once the nuclear testing ground of the pre-dark world, the Marshall Islands are now the kingdom of the grotesque lord Baron Kinnison.

A pre-dark legacy of shattering promise lies beneath the ruins of nuke-ravaged Seattle.. Ryan Cawdor and his warrior companions come face-to-face with the ancestors of a secret society whose members were convinced that paradise awaited at the center of the Earth..

Here, the brutality of man and nature conspire against hope. Yet despite its chaos and bloody turmoil, Deathlands is a second chance for the human race. Yet for an elite few, the reality portal offers a new frontier of raw energy, expendable slaves-a bastion of power for Dredda Otis Trask. Now this Otherworld Earth is in its final death throes.

When a Gateway jump puts Ryan and the others deep in the hell of Texas, they face a no win situation: fry in the heat, or become a rogue baron's sec force for an oil refinery targeted by saboteurs.

or peril. But to seize tomorrow, they must confront its deadly guardians: what is left of the constitutional Government of the United States of America. Armed with rare knowledge of top secret twenty-first-century technology, Ryan Cawdor and his band of warrior survivalists traverse the new America, seeking to claim something beyond the grim reality of Deathlands.

As Ryan's group falls victim, time is running out-for the intrepid survivors. Emerging from a gateway in New England, Ryan Cawdor and his band of wayfaring survivalists ally themselves with a group of women warriors who join their quest to locate the Illuminated Ones, a mysterious pre-dark secret who may possess secret knowledge of Deathlands..

. Ryan, Mildred and Krysty are captured by the baron's sec men and pawned into the cruel frenzy of their leader's grotesque desires.. JB, Jak and Doc enlist the aid of outlanders to organize a counter strike-but rescue may come too late for them all.

... But a traveling road show gives new meaning to the word chilling.

Stranded in the salty desert wastes of West Texas, Ryan and his companions find pre-Dark wheels and set out on a treacherous journey across inhospitable terrain...A century after the nuclear conflagration almost destroyed the world, humanity endures in a lawless land.

Savagely transformed by atomic fallout, what remains of humanity endures an internecine war against those who thrive on chaos and bloodshed. A legend in a violent land, Ryan Cawdor lives and fights by his own rules as he and his companions traverse the grim world of Deathlands. Hearing a rumor that the Trader, his old teacher and friend, is still alive, Ryan and his warrior group struggle across the treacherous Texas desert to find the truth.

Emerging from a gateway into a redoubt filled with pre-Dark technology, Ryan and his band hope to unlock some of the secrets of post nuclear America.

When the tribesmen declare Mildred Wyeth "free" from her white masters, it is a twist of fate that ultimately leads the battle-hardened medic to question where her true loyalties lie.

. Now with the group's armorer, JB Dix, imprisoned and near death, Ryan and the others are forced to join Ethan's hunt-as the hunted. Ryan Cawdor has endured the worst that Deathlands has to offer and continues to push on, leading his companions through a land of madness and treachery, seizing each new day with a deep, primal hope that refuses to die..

An internecine war foreshadows ultimate destruction of the valley at a time when unity of command and purpose offers the only hope against a terrible fate. In the Deathlands everyone has a future. Some will wish they didn't..

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Army, commanded by a brilliant general with a propensity for casual mass murder and a vision to rebuild America.

Men like Ryan Cawdor, whose inner strength and stubborn resolve continue to defy the worst that Deathlands offers.

There are times when the oblivion of death seems a most welcome journey out of Deathlands.. Ryan and company are willing to come to the aid of these freedom fighters, ready to wage a war against the twisted tyranny that permeates Deathlands. But in a chill-or-be-chilled world, freedom can only be won by spilled blood.

In the ancient canyons of New Mexico, the citizens of Little Pueblo prepare to sacrifice Ryan and his companions to demons locked inside a twentieth-century dam project..

Twenty-second-century America may not be much worth fighting for, but Ryan Cawdor and his warrior survivalists push on, clinging to the deep wellspring of human hope that somewhere in the raw, violent frontier of a rad-blasted tomorrow is someplace they can call home. But nothing can prepare them for Dr. Weary, sick and hungry, the group barely survives a trek through the torturous deserts of the Southwest which leads into the bayous of what was once Louisiana, a place one of their own first called home. The eerie, lifeless silence of the swamps warns of trouble ahead.

Possessing understanding and the unshakable will to survive, Ryan Cawdor and his warrior survivalists face each day armed and ready for the enemy called Deathlands, whose formidable power has yet to claim victory over the human spirit.

.. Now evil is alive and stalking the warrior group.Journeying across the devastated frontier of post-nuclear America, Ryan Cawdor and his companions have unlocked clandestine knowledge of pre-Dark tech, secrets that give them an edge for staying alive, an edge augmented by an ability to fight.

Long ago Ryan Cawdor and his band threw in their lot together-to do or die trying.

Yet few among the most tyrannical barons can rival the ruthlessness of Sandra Tregart, whose despotic visions are being realized by resurrected technology: air power..

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But as the land around the Rio Grande reaches the breaking point in a bitter war, the companions are harnessed into battle, moving toward a grim confrontation with an old enemy whose secret stockpile of twenty-first-century nerve gas is poised to unleash infinite madness once more upon a ravaged earth. In the Deathlands, history readies to repeat itself. Now the past lies in the ashes, while the mysteries of the future unfold in the hands of those willing to live each new day in search of hope for tomorrow..

Staying hard and cold for today is the only way to survive. And he's eager for the keys to the kingdom that only the legendary Deathlands survivors-and their secrets-can help him attain. Though hope lingers under the blood and the dust, looking blindly toward the future is the surest way to get killed.