Pitfall: a Post-apocalyptic Fantasy

The Pit … a toxic mist that embroils the world, mutating people into the Fallen, radioactive mutants with powers beyond man’s wildest dreamsThe Peaks … Home of the Peakers. Five mountaintops where the last scraps of humanity eke out a living like cavemen among the dinosaursUnable to conceive children of their own, they rely on the Cradle of Life, a mysterious structure from a long-lost time before the Cataclysm that destroyed the planet …Technology is forbiddenThe moon is wreckedAnd dragons terrorise the Peaks every summer when they emerge from hibernationThe only defence against them is the noble pterodactyl-ridersWith her apprentice ceremony coming up, Erris longs to be one of the legendary pterodactyl-ridersBut what her apprenticeship will set in motion is a chain of events that no one could have predicted, unlocking the secrets of the Pit’s depthsUnveiling the enigmatic schemes of mad scientists, cunning mutants and a ruthless AI in a sinister plot against the Peakers themselvesAn action-packed, fast-paced, post-apocalyptic sci-fantasy thrill ride of a story about the lengths to which some will go for the greater good, and how far one young woman will go to stop them