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Book Blurb

Cole rescues Ava, a pilot from the Cloud City of Easton who crash-lands near her farm, setting in motion events that will alter the course of her life. It’s a hundred years after peak oil and the rich have risen above the Earth, inhabiting great Cloud Cities, while those left behind live a rural existence, off the grid. After suffering a vicious attack, Cole is transported to the Cloud City of Easton for emergency surgery.

While recuperating and adrift in the unfamiliar social landscape of Easton, Cole begins a journey of discovery. When she meets Audrey, a beautiful doctor, the attraction they share is penetrating and possibly life altering. Explosions, staged by a ruthless underground movement, nearly bring Easton to the brink of collapse. The crisis that rocks the city forces Cole and Audrey to weigh what truly holds meaning and what each is willing to sacrifice for love.

 

Book Review

I just finished ‘All Things Rise’ and it is certainly one of the best love stories I have ever read. My heart is still pounding and my eyes are still tearing, but the love I feel is so thrillingly alive. By the way, this is a rather ingenious story from the future, too, with concepts and constructs that will have me pondering for many days to come. Most assuredly, this is one story that should definitely not be missed. Enthralling!

Cole, Ruth Coleman George, resides on the planet Earth. Interestingly, Cole's life and family bear no resemblance to the remaining bogeymen that supposedly roam and pillage the few enduring habitable places on the ground according to the folks populating the cloud cities. Additionally, Cole is truly a treasure of a woman. She seems to have no pretenses and is astoundingly open and forthright. Hardworking and accomplished in many of the skills apparently needed to run a farm, she lives with her two aunts. Curiously, Cole is the central character in both instances when cloud people end up on the ground and someone has gotten seriously injured. During both occurrences the outstanding love story I referenced earlier has opportunities to flourish. I really do love Cole. Joyous epitomization!

Audrey is a doctor doing primarily general practitioner work. What appears to happen is something akin to a magical connection when she first meets Cole. Add the intensity of how they respond to each other as they get more and more intimate, and almost everyone around them sense this couple is sublimely special. However, Audrey lives in a cloud city and Cole is totally melded to the places and people on the ground. There is no connection or interaction between these two locales. Given that reality, Audrey simply cannot comfortably visualize herself relocating. The implications are simply staggering. Yet Cole is everything she has ever dreamed of as a complete partner. What a profoundly disconcerting dilemma. Painful ultimate obfuscation!

There are fantastic interplays between various characters. Plus, life centered within the cloud cities and life on the ground has absolutely no communication, no interrelationship, and heaps of misinformation. That dynamic in and of itself is shocking, jaw-dropping, and stunningly not the main focus of the book but incredibly significant. So do enjoy the setting and the tension, but envelop yourself in the extraordinarily beautiful love story. Spectacularly delightful!

 

 

 

 

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Additional Information

Format	ebook and print
Length	Novel, 240 pages/70800 words
Heat Level
Publication Date	01-May-2015
Price	$9.99 ebook, $16.95 paperback, $19.99 bundle
Buy Link	http://www.boldstrokesbooks.com/9781626393462B.html