Helen Brain

Post-Apocalyptic stories are catnip to me and my favourites are those set in South Africa: Helen Brain’s Elevation series is only on book one, so be warned before you start that there will be a cliff-hanger and a wait… but not too long a wait because Book Two, The Rising Tide, is already in the pipeline.
At the time of The Great Purification, 2000 children of gifted parents, were put in a bunker beneath Table Mountain to ensure their survival: for 16 years, Ebba is amongst them.
When her red hair marks her as one of the sacrificial victims at the annual sacrifice of the weak, the High Priest sees an amulet around her neck and rather than death, a life of unbelievable privilege awaits Ebba on a verdant Cape wine farm.
While those in the Table Mountain bunker work like slaves, believing the outer world is a deserted wasteland, an elite group live comfortably on the islands making up the former Western Cape, profiting from the work of the deluded bunkerites.
A series for young adults, Elevation runs high an adventure, romance and teenage hormones as Ebba is made aware of her sacred task to save humanity from a final calamity. Gosh – who can resist? This is Post-Apocalyptic Gossip Girl in the Western Cape - OMG!!… (mais)