The Woodman Series

The Woodman (Book One) POST APOCALYPTIC Imagine a world where nothing is easy. No electricity, electronic communications, fuel or running water. Imagine that world came so fast there was nothing you could do about it. No preparation, no stockpiling of goods. One day you flick a switch and a fire comes on, the next day you need to learn to make fire to enable warmth and to keep animals away. No law, no order, survival of the fittest is the name of the game. From seven billion human beings to a few million, almost overnight. Imagine that day comes tomorrow could you handle it? Ebola has attacked the human race, virtually wiping it from the face of the planet. For those who survived the struggle is just beginning and for some the nightmare is just starting. It is now three years since The Death first visited the globe but the fight goes on. A madman, now free of prison hospital builds an army and marches on Coast Town with the intent of taking it over. Coast Town is a haven on the south coast of England, a refuse for the few survivors to gather and start again. Three years on from the dark day when Ebola struck the people face another challenge, this one perhaps all the more frightening because it might not kill you, just enslave. One man can make a difference, two men can change the future. Duke Woods, The Woodman, stands in the way of the madman. Duke has the power to stop him and a score to settle with him, too. With the help of his new-found friend Shadow, Duke takes the battle to the madman known as The Black Pope. As well as facing such danger, Duke also has to deal with the scorn of a woman, the truth of fathers death and comes to realise why he was forced from Coast Town so many years ago. Will Duke survive? Can The Black Pope be beaten? Will the plague, known to all as The Death, return? As Duke's past comes back to haunt him so the battle for life takes off, with not only his life in the balance but that of Coast Town, too.

The Woodman, book three, The Gates of Hell This instalment begins six hours after Duke Woods, AKA The Woodman, has decided he must leave Coast Town. If he leaves, they stand a chance of negotiation with the small army coming their way, and he gets to go home to his family. If he stays the army will want his head. He has to try and flee, regardless of how it looks to others. The reluctant hero in the making fights his way out with bow and arrow, and arrives home only to find his family in mortal danger, then, in a twist of fate; Duke is taken prisoner and escorted to Dover Castle. There he has, under threat of death, to fight for his freedom and his sanity as the true horrors of a madman come to light. Sue goes to other lands to start a new and joyful life whilst Coast Town burns; only to find the sweet talking man was really a serpent in disguise. Duke fights evil time and again, fashioning himself unwittingly into a hero, regardless of his wish to not be. Years of peace follow, communities come together, trade and growth, and a network of towns and villages live in harmony with the people of the woods. Harmony that is, until evil rears its ugly head once more. The Death is still out there, perhaps it always will be, and evil men still rampage across the lands too. Will peace ever really come to The Woodman?

The Woodman, Book Two. The Fires of Hell (re-edited) This second instalment starts six weeks after Book one, the Roads of Hell, finished. The reluctant hero in the making, Duke Woods, The Woodman, has contracted Ebola, otherwise known simply as “The Death”. The Black Pope is still alive and kicking, unknown to most and The Woodman has a new friend. Michelle, a six-year-old girl, remains at his side watching and waiting whilst The Death ravages his body. Hannah, the love of his life is not allowed near them in case she and the child she carries become infected, and the communities, at the news of his contagion, go into lockdown. Hannah is nearly six months pregnant, Sue is seven months into her pregnancy, and several other women are carrying babies too. As Duke recovers, he finds the Army is still in place and helping everyone it can, and the Elders are still unable to achieve even the simplest of things. Coast Town looks to be thriving again with the new influx of people but, as always, trouble is just around the corner and new horror surfaces. Just when things looks good for the survivor’s, just as they begin to grasp skills forgotten, new evils and hard times rush to compound issues and make life a far greater struggle than it already was. The Death wiped out most of Mankind; illness and disease took even more. 90% of humans are dead, the rest think they are in hell. Those lived through it, instead of banding together, seem unable to change their ways and people find they still have to fight Mankind’s greatest enemy, Mankind itself.