Sam & Emily: A Love Story from the Underground (Earth's End) [Kindle Edition]

Sandy Nathan (Author)

Book Description

BOOK 3 OF THE EARTH'S END SAGA. We recommend that you read the books in order to fully understand the story. Book 1 is The Angel & the Brown-eyed Boy. Book 2 is Lady Grace. Thank you, Vilasa Press
 
When Sam Baahuhd carries a naked stranger into the underground bomb shelter  on the Piermont estate, he has no idea she will ignite his world. Nuclear radiation traps Sam and Emily and the rest of the village's residents in an echoing cement cavern three hundred feet beneath the earth's surface. There is no escape from the underground. Not for them.
Or their children, or their children's children . . .

The lovely outsider carries deadly secrets no one can imagine. Only Sam with his
village headman's Power can heal her. Only Emily can make Sam the man he was meant to be.

Passion explodes between them. Passion that brings joy and pain, ecstasy and remorse. Passion that can kill.

Join the people of Earth's End for a legendary love story that will be remembered for two thousand years.

Editorial Reviews

Review

5 stars out of 5! A gripping story of life after the world ends . . . fascinating and reminiscent of Stephen King's epic masterpiece - The Stand.  Sam and Emily is by far my favorite . . . in the series.  It will leave you thinking well after turning the last page.
Todd A. Fonseca, bestselling author of The Time Cavern

Out of the ballpark! It's a terrific story with wonderful characters - both the good guys and the bad guys - in all kinds of wild situations.
 ... Prepare yourself for a wild ride. And give thanks that there are Sandy Nathan books already in print and even more on their way.
Laren Bright   Emmy-nominated television writer

From the Author

Hi, everyone! Sam & Emily is the third book in the Earth's End Saga, and my favorite.  Sam & Emily is a story of true and not-so-true love that takes place in a massive bomb shelter far underground. An underground tomb, really.

The character Sam Baahuud appears originally in The Angel & the Brown-eyed Boy, the series' first book. There, Sam's a minor but colorful character, a rough and rustic primitive. Sam's been stuck on the aristocratic Veronica Edgarton's estate his whole life, 41 years at the book's beginning. He's been the village headman for 22 years.

What's the village? The Earth's End Saga takes place in the future, but it's a very different future than you might imagine. If you isolated the United State's least developed areas for a couple hundred years and dropped them into a warring police state, that's Sam's world.  Its villages are fiefdoms run my strongmen. Sam has been able to get and keep the job of headman because he is tougher and more ruthless than anyone else. He can't read, nor can any of his fellow villagers. Most of them stay drunk or stoned as much as possible, including Sam.

Toss a nuclear holocaust and an underground bomb shelter meant to save the planet's best and brightest intellects into this and you've got the background for Sam & Emily. The scientists don't make it to the shelter before the nuclear holocaust, so its occupants become the villagers, Arthur Romero, a commando planted by the military, and Emily, a stranger that Sam carries into the shelter moments before the bombs go off.

So that's the set-up. Let the game begin! Or let the love flow. Or the blood.

Sandy Nathan

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Product Details

• File Size: 586 KB
• Print Length: 430 pages
• Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0976280965
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Publisher: Vilasa Press; 1 edition (July 13, 2012)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B008LFICOM
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Not Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #686,647 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing Blend of Fantasy and Psychology July 19, 2012

By K. G. McGuinness

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

Sandy Nathan's epic series "Tales from the Earth's End" starts with The Angel and The Brown-Eyed Boy and continues with Lady Grace. The Angel opens with the run up to a nuclear war at some time in the future when the United States has devolved into a military state that might be envisioned by George Orwell. It is competing with Russia for world domination. However, the nuclear holocaust at the end of the Angel means there are no winners, only survivors.

Despite the "Brown-Eyed Boy's" elaborate plans to preserve the human race by populating an extensive underground shelter with elite specimens, the war's early start means only those living in the vicinity of the shelter take refuge there. This is where Sam & Emily picks up. The twist that distinguishes Sam & Emily from other post-apocalyptic fiction is the nature of the shelter's neighbors. And what a fascinating and repulsive lot they are!

Ms. Nathan finds a hero among the primitive inhabitants of the shelter and, in the finest tradition of writers, tortures him. You'll never forget Sam or his love Emily. Highly recommended.

5.0 out of 5 stars A Gripping Story of Life After the World Ends July 17, 2012

By Todd A. Fonseca VINE™ VOICE

Format:Kindle Edition

Sam and Emily (Tales from Earth's End III) - A Gripping Story of Life After the World Ends

Rating: 5 of 5
Author: Sandy Nathan
Format: Kindle, Paperback

Sam Baahuhd flees with his village to live the rest of their lives in the underground shelter just before the bombs explode wiping out all of humanity. But Sam finds leadership in this place much different than the village. In this confined space with limited food and the need to create a society that will last for generations, the old ways of the village with their inbreeding and disorderly drunkenness will surely doom the future of humanity. Sam must change his people but first must change himself. If it weren't for Emily and her love, he may not be strong enough. Unfortunately, Sam may have to give her up in order to protect future generations.

While "Sam and Emily" is the third book in Nathan's "Tales from the Earth's End" series, this is a very different book from the first two and in many ways stands alone. Whereas the other volumes focus more on the science fiction elements, this volume centers on the relationship between two critical and damaged personalities as they struggle to keep their love alive while living under impossible conditions. Nathan's insights into the logistics and struggles of life in the underground and how to plan out generations who must not only survive but thrive, especially given the issues of inbreeding and genetic contamination with their limited human stock, is fascinating and reminiscent of Stephen King's epic masterpiece - The Stand.

"Sam and Emily" is by far my favorite and I think the best written in the series. It will leave you thinking well after turning the last page....

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More About the Author

"I write books that touch the heart--and the mind and soul. While my books have thrills to spare, they're about making the world a better place. I've won many national awards in visionary fiction. My vision is unusual--my stories don't always have happy endings and sometimes they're plain old scary. And rough.

"You won't get a story you can predict from me. Except for quality. My books are very highly rated by readers. I've won 24 national awards, including the Benjamin Franklin Award (finalist) and Gold, Silver & Bronze Medals in the IPPY (Independent Press) Awards. These are two of the most prestigious, oldest and largest competitions for independent presses. I've also won two Silver Nautilus Awards. The Nautilus competition is for books that positively impact the planet. I've also won a large handful of other awards." Do awards mean anything in the quality of writing? Check out my books and see.

Born in San Francisco, Sandy Nathan grew up in Silicon Valley's competitive corporate culture. A full time writer since 1995, Sandy Nathan holds master's degrees in economics and counseling. She has been an economist, negotiation coach, and businesswoman. The visionary part of her writing flows from her meditation practice and spiritual experience. A lifelong horsewoman, Sandy is a wife and mother of three grown children. She lives on their California horse ranch.