The Forbidden Flats
Escape one danger. Jump into another...
Twelve-year-old
Hope has always felt a little different from everyone else who lives in
White Rock. She tries hard, but she doesn't always think before she
acts. She takes big risks. Sometimes her risks pay off, but sometimes
they fail. Sometimes she fails.
Hope knows that the most
dangerous thing about living in White Rock is that it's so close to the
deadly Bomb's Breath - the invisible, fifteen-foot-thick band of
compressed air that's hovered over the earth since the Green Bombs of
World War III. The citizens of White Rock live in fear of the Bomb's
Breath. Only Hope has figured out a way to go through it-and lived to
tell the tale.
But when a massivetremor rips across the earth, the Bomb's Breath begins to lower over White Rock. It's up to Hope and
her friends Brock and Aaren to make the dangerous journey far from home
across the bandit-ridden Forbidden Flats to the wilds of the Rocky
Mountains to obtain the one thing that may be able to stop it - before the
Bomb's Breath sinks too far and destroys them all. This time, Hope can't fail.
