For adults with special interests in children's literature.

The bunkers were built for the apocalypse. Just not the one they expected. Life was bad and getting worse in the depths of Salvation. It did not take the people of Level Three long to realise that the only reason they had been spared from the cataclysm was to become a slave class. Now, a single accident has changed everything. Fear is spreading like a virus. Rumours become facts the moment they're spoken. Neighbour is turning against neighbour. And time is running out fast. For most, this signals the end. For Callie and her friends, there is just one hope, but to find it, they're going to have to fight through the most terror-filled night of their lives. Can they escape the horror that awaits them? Or will these next few hours be their last?

Juniper Tree Burning is a dazzling meditation on legacy and legend, rebellion and renewal. When Jennie Braverman, formerly known as Juniper Tree Burning, gets news of her brother Sunny Boy Blue's suicide, she flees her new husband and embarks upon a mad dash across the American West toward the site of Sunny's death. Forced to confront the past, Jennie must face the shame of the childhood name she has been so happy to shed. Only after she weaves her way through a tapestry of family sorrows -- poverty, a spider-infested adobe house, and the legacy of her hippie parents -- will Jennie be able to take on her greatest challenge: accepting love.

Ben Wells fears being at home, and for good reason. Will Ben's love for his spouse be enough for him to face what he doesn't understand, or will fear overcome courage? Follow the spiraling events as a family is torn apart and devoured by the flames... In Rory Dwane's horror/thriller novelette, follow this fast paced, suspenseful tale of a family in the grips of an otherworldly power.

The Burning Tree, a tale of infinite emotions, depicts various characters who come and go in between but creates a significant impact in the life of Krishna. The way situations and words break him up and he stands up again with the support of people around him with no loss of hope becomes emotionally deep and robust as time passes on. Nature, the ultimate mother of all, helps him heal his scars. No matter how strong one may be, there is something more vigorous than everything; time. Time breaks and heals things, always plays a critical role in people's lives and turns everything around in seconds. Will that one person's efforts give a fruitful response, with all those infinite attempts? What was that tragedy that has happened in their lives? What is that sentence that broke the relation? At what time could we do it? What are those wise words that changed someone's life?

Christina Seymour's generous, insightful When is a Burning Tree shines its brilliance on the unexpected lyrical connections between the human world and the natural one so that under its influence we recognize even "the earthworm, with its two sexes and five impossible hearts" or "the tiniest snail gripping rock-face" as fellow travelers exactly as humble as ourselves. --Lisa Lewis, author of The Body Double and Burned House with Swimming Pool