Home is a Half Broke Heart: Book I: The Babylon Road Chronicle...

Heat rises off the scorched earth, obscuring the blue-tinged mountains in the distance. Ancient tin roofs buckle, pop and yaw in the heat of high noon. A light breeze moves through the streets and alleyways of this unassuming, nameless desert outpost. For a moment, just as the breeze dies out, there is a paralyzing silence so stark, so ominous, that it feels as if time and space have collapsed in on themselves. Then a telephone begins to ring.As it rings, men, women and children begin to wake in various stages of disorientation and fear. There are one-hundred-six inhabitants in total. By the end of the week there will be fewer than twenty. At first glance there appears to be no recognition amongst the strangers - no common thread that ties them to one and other. But the emergence of an enigmatic stranger known only as Adam, begins to reveal that the arrival of those in the desert is anything but random. For those who manage to survive, they will soon discover that the desert prison holds a cache of dark and wonderful secrets that will either prove to be their salvation or damnation. Home is a Half Broke Heart is the first installment of Noah Brown's Babylon Road Chronicles. A sprawling epic of speculative fiction, Brown uses the stark desert canvas to create a tense setting for richly flawed characters on a quest for survival, atonement and an extraordinary adventure.

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