Kill Well Sell Sheet
Kill Well, Book One of The Steep Climes Quartet
In one quick glimpse, her world collapses.
Cynthia Wainwright was on her way to yet another fossil fuel divestment pitch, but now she is on the run. Her boss, a V.P. at Carbon’s End, is dead and someone is trying to make it look like she pulled the trigger.
Kill Well publishes on September 1, 2023.
Kill Well surveys the climate crisis coming toward us today and in the years and decades ahead, focusing on the experience of these troubled times and the thoughts and feelings and choices of the series’ main characters caught up in the climate crisis. Kill Well blends thriller genre with the literary style of deep character development to build page-turners that help us imagine what we might be thinking now and in the years ahead about climate change and choices we each must face.
The signs of and fallouts from global warming are already part of our experience and there is more—much more—to come. But even if we escape for some fortunate length of time the heatwaves or fires or storms that increasingly appear in this wide world, we can’t escape the consequences for international, national, and local politics or the unsettling effects on the world economy. Nor can we avoid the increasing distress in our own families and households, with any grasping after comfort feeling more and more unreal with climate change already at work in our lives in the size of our energy bills, the rising prices for food, and, of course, the ceaseless news-scape of disasters closing in. None can escape the demands and costs for correcting the errant path of centuries of carbon-dumping because doing nothing guarantees a much higher cost.
Kill Well is the first book of The Steep Climes Quartet and takes place more or less today and in one particular spot in America, Berkshire County, which lies at the western end of Massachusetts, a location thought likely to miss much of the very worst effects of climate change for longer than many other places in our fragile world. In Kill Well, one singular danger comes to the green hills of the Berkshires in the form of fossil fuel capitalists buying the deaths of divestiture activists all for the sake of protecting profits.
For synopses of the other three books of The Steep Climes Quartet, click here.
- Available in Kindle ($7.99) and in paperback ($16.99—384 pp., 5¼ x 8 inches)
- ISBN Number: 979-8-9885055-1-8 [ebook]; 979-8-9885055-0-1 [paperback]
- Published by CMTI Publishing
- Genre: Climate Fiction
A young woman framed for killing her oil divestiture boss is on the run, but can she find help in the Berkshires before the contract killer finds her?
Kill Well is for readers who like a good story but want to see how good stories play out in the coming crush of climate change.
About the Author: David R. Guenette is the author of the climate fiction series, The Steep Climes Quartet, with the first title, Kill Well, published in September 2023. He worked in book publishing as a developmental and acquisitions editor before shifting his focus to digital publishing as a journalist and editor for electronic publishing trade and technology periodicals, and founded Retrosheath, a start-up that aimed to reduce cost for energy efficiency improvements for DER.