Escape to Nowhere by Veronica Scott @vscotttheauthor @sophiarose1816

Fleeing the zombie apocalypse on an isolated colony planet, two strangers find a common purpose and more as they strive to reach promised sanctuary in a refugee camp.

Les McDaniel barely had a chance to get a cup of coffee in the town of Rosewater before it falls to the swarming infected. He steps in to drive one of the two school buses designated as escape vehicles. He didn’t ask for the responsibility for the lives of all these other people, most of whom he doesn’t even know but he’ll do his best to get them to the refugee camp safely. Then he’s off on his own, no government-run camp for him.

Devora Sims was the police dispatcher for the town of Rosewater before the Western Flu hit and left hordes of vicious infected in its wake. The scion of a prominent local family stepped in when infrastructure failed and became a ruthless warlord. She found a temporary haven running his kitchen but then the compound fell to the infected, he was killed and she managed to get herself on one of the buses, with the additional responsibility for an abandoned toddler she rescued.

Les and Devora forge an alliance as the bus trip continues and her feelings become deeply engaged with the reluctant hero bus driver. But he’s made it plain he won’t stay at the refugee camp and she can’t imagine trying to live on the run in the open, especially with a child.
Will they reach the camp? Will it still be there? And what kind of future could Les and Devora build on a relationship born of the chaos?

After recently devouring the last installment in the series, Tamsyn, Escape to Nowhere came as a welcome return to the dark, exciting world of the sci-fi post-apocalyptic adventures of the Planet of Last Resort Series by Veronica Scott.

Escape to Nowhere follows Tamsyn in the series, but is chronologically happening parallel and then maybe a little beyond the timeline of Tamsyn.  Escape to Nowhere follows the adventure and romance of two characters who appear about half-way into Tamsyn’s story and split from her with their own adventure.

Les Daniels, a retired sectors military guy now drives the tour bus for a rock star and the tour becomes fraught with danger when the ‘flu’ going around turns people into raving and rampaging zombies.  He and some of the crew get the bus on the road and land in small town Rosewater where safety is a brief illusion and he’s now driving a bus to escape the ravaging hoard that is attacking Rosewater.  He finds himself suddenly in charge of the lives of several people including a competent woman and an orphaned girl who tug on his heartstrings.

Devora encountered the zombies in the city while the government was still trying to cover up the danger.  She returns to her job as police emergency operator briefly before Rosewater has its own zombie troubles and she ends up in a compound and her old high school nemesis has taken his bullying ways to a new extreme as a ‘warlord’ and now ‘protects’ the people with his rabble security team.  But, nowhere seems safe and, before the zombies get them all, Tamsyn hands off an orphaned girl and gets her on one of the busses pulling away from the danger.

Devora has large crew cooking ability and learned to handle the logistics of making food stretch in the compound so she teams up with Les and his friend to help get the survivors to the government protected refugee camp.  If only she can get Les to stay with them and care for her as much as she has come to care for him.

Escape to Nowhere was exciting and suspenseful as the little band must make their way to hopeful safety of the refugee camp.  The zombies are only part of the danger as chaos, scattered resources, and human predators abound in the broken-down world that is as primitive as can be.   The desperation and danger are high, but I liked that the character and relationship development are pacing right alongside, too.

I can’t wait to see what comes next for all the people trying to survive and stay safe in the Planet of Last Resort series.  Those who like dystopian or exciting sci-fi adventure romance should definitely brave the zombie hoards for the read.

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Sophia is a quiet though curious gal who dabbles in cooking, book reviewing, piano-playing, and gardening.Road trips and campouts, museums and monuments, restaurants and theaters are her jam. Encouraged and supported by an incredible man and loving family. A Northern Californian transplant to the Great Lakes Region of the US. Lover of Jane Austen, Baseball, Cats, Scooby Doo, and Chocolate.

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