Debut Novel out now
for home and hearth by
ethan warrener
Ella Holland wanted a simple life, but she would have settled for survival.
Neither come easy in the slowly rewilding hills of West Virginia. A genocidal purge and fifty years of twisted chimeras gnawing at the bones of civilization have left humans—natural-bred or genetically modified—few and far between. Those who are left cling to whatever settlement, clan, or town that will provide shelter from unbred monsters and vicious marauders alike.
Ella’s world is a small one: small comforts, small communities, small questions, small hopes and ambitions.
But when a wandering drifter turns up with an army of ravenous pigmen at his heels, Ella Holland and the rest of her clan will have to confront all the harsh realities they've kept sealed outside their walls, the lies they've told themselves, and even the specter of their own extinction.
Will there be room at the end of all this for small things? For tenderness? For compassion? For home and hearth?
“Creature-feature material blended skillfully with Appalachian-style grievances in a post-apocalyptic world.”
— Kirkus Reviews
enter the world of the tucker clan. lose yourself in the mountains.
But make sure you watch your back.
About Ethan
Ethan Warrener grew up in Southwest Missouri, which resembles West Virginia if you really squint. If he’s not writing or teaching, he’s spending any extra free time with his wife and kids or playing too many video games. As you might expect from a Midwesterner, he’s an occasional farmer, a regular churchgoer, and a huge metalhead. For Home and Hearth is his first novel fit to see the light of day.
