As she celebrates her 16th birthday in the post-Collapse world, Dar is ready to take her exams and prepare to enter a nearby school.  What should be a special day takes an unexpected turn into the surreal when her family’s farm is attacked by marauders bent on taking their land.  

As the dust settles, she must decide what path she will take -- face the attackers in an effort to keep what her family has worked so hard to build or try to find sanctuary and live to fight another day.  

Alone, but not friendless, Dar heads to the school.  Along the way, she learns some of her family’s history and its surprising connection to the myth of Haven.  Can she survive long enough to reach her destination and begin to make her future?

(This is an excerpt from the novel Search for Haven by Justin Oldham.)

"Search for Haven (excerpt)"

by Justin Oldham