Purgatory Spit Out Its Souls on Eden, Texas. Now There’s Hell to Pay.
Veteran novelist Ann Swann and WordCrafts Pressare pleased to announce the release of Remainders, the eagerly anticipated conclusionto Swann’s popular Apocalypse in Eden series. The final volume in the trilogy released to retail on January 18, 2025, in hardback, trade paperback, and all major ebook formats.
Told through the eyes of a teenaged boy named Jack, this scifi-horror series started with TAKERS, continued with SEEKERS, and now reaches it thrilling conclusion with REMAINDERS. The series follows the exploits of a group of people who were forced to find a way to survive after a parallel dimension dubbed Purgatory ripped open the sky and spit its inhabitants into their midst. Jack, an unwilling leader; finds himself forced to perform tasks he never would have imagined before the rip. But with the help of a motley crew of survivors, including a deaf dog named Snake—and odd brain-blasts of classic rock-n-roll—he grows into the guy who can make decisions that save their little band from annihilation by the creatures he calls… Takers.
We are the remainders,
the inheritors of the ashes,
and the builders of a new dawn.
After finding Jack’s father and a few other survivors, both takers and humans, they dubbed themselves Remainders, determined to not go quietly into the night, regardless of the cost. But as time and space unravel, and the laws of physics dissolve, the group finds they have nothing left to hold onto except their faith, hope, and each other. Will that be enough?
From the Novel
When Carlos removed the wrench blocking the overhead roller, the monsters were right there. He’d barely begun to raise the door when strong gray nail-less hands grasped thebottom of the door and sent it crashing upward. Rose had been holding the Nissan’s door open so Carlos could hop in, but now she ran at him, grabbing his arm, screaming at him to, Come!
Carlos tore toward the Nissan and flung himself inside, but Rose seemed frozen, thewhooshing of gray feet suddenly loud in the silence.
“Mom!” Milo screamed. “Get in.”
Huge gray hands reached for Rose. Carlos launched himself from the backseat, shotgun in hand. Everyone heard the
cha-chunk as he racked a shell. Trina lunged over the seat, intent on going for her mom. Carlos drew down on the reaching monster.
Ka-Boom!
The blast rattled the metal door and the monster flew backward, halfway outside, a gaping wound appearing in its chest. Cloudy fluid flew from the thing’s wound, spewing black letters, opening a sky hole, bringing down the rain. The monster rolled over and dragged itself toward Rose, across the garage floor, intent on its mission.
Trina lunged forward again, determined to get her mom. Drew grabbed her shirt as a second gray creature entered. Outside, dark rain whooshed, hitting the ground in a shiny, solid torrent, flowing across the drive and into the garage, licking up letters as it came. The stuff belched across the injured monster, shoving it forward just enough to let it latch on to Rose’s sneakered foot.
“Drew!” she screamed, finally turning. “Help me!”
“The Apocalypse in Eden trilogy is wrapping up with this novel, Remainders,” muses author Ann Swann. “It’s an homage to my speculative fiction readers, and I’ve totally enjoyed writing it. In fact, the original manuscript was almost six hundred pages long, and it took me forever to whittle it down to a manageable word count. Perhaps I just wasn’tready to be finished with Jack and Snake and all the Remainders.
“I try to keep my eyes open for the odd bits of inspiration like the one that inspired this whole trilogy,” she adds. “The Apocalypse in Eden series idea hit me the day we drove through the small town of Eden, Texas, on the way to somewhere else. There is a prison there, and because of this prison, there are signs along the highway, quite regularly spaced, cautioning drivers to keep their vehicle doors locked and to never pick uphitchhikers. Those signs set my brain on fire. I couldn’t help but wonder what had happened to precede such dire warnings. I envisioned monsters with their thumbs out. And, of course, the fact that this was all centered around the small town of Eden seemed quite Biblical—the perfect place to begin an apocalypse.”
About Ann Swann
Ann Swann was born in the small West Texas town of Lamesa. Before becoming a published author, Ann did everything from answering 911 Emergency calls to scheduling commercials in a rock-n-roll radio station to teaching elementary school.
She still lives in Texas with her sweetheart, Dude, and their rescue cat, Mojo. When she’s not writing, Ann is reading. Her to-be-read list has grown so large it has taken on a life of its own. She calls it Herman. As in Munster.
Connect with Ann online at:
https://authorannswann.com/
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