3Tossed aside like garbage, our main character comes from a violent and loveless society to be exiled to the wasteland. Determined to survive, she is rescued by a people unknown to her or that brutal culture of her origin. They hide from them underground believing they have a higher cause to live for because they were created. Can she adapt to a place so different, so alien, so opposite? Is this what she always knew must exist. More. Author Biography Retired from twenty years in the coffee business, restauranteur, fitness instructor, caterer, artist, animal lover, gardener, wife, mother, and grandmother are some of the things I am blessed to be or do. I live in beautiful Calgary, Alberta, Canada near the Rocky Mountains with my husband of over four decades, Roger.