August of the People

Book I of the Eternity's Sunrise Saga

By: V.F. Aubrey

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

You can run from the past...but in the near future, you can't hide.

August Dividale has a dangerous secret. Two warring histories brew within him, and they're about to collide.

Now nineteen years old, he grew up an orphan among the People, a hunter-gatherer band living in the wild northwestern rainforests of North America, 500 years after the elites fled the planet. They make a precarious, isolated living by hunting de-extinct Ice Age megafauna, released before the Fall. While August struggles to prove his worth to them, his secret origin is about to resurface and threaten his new home.

August's big chance to show that he's not just a strange, foreign kid comes when he's chosen to lead the annual mastodon hunt, but the event is soured by the discovery of an ancient-looking spearhead, recently made. The People, already alarmed by this foreboding omen, are shocked by the entrance of two unusual-looking soldiers into their winter village, barely alive after traveling from a distant, surviving industrial city called Libernia. They tell a gruesome tale of their legion slaughtered by half-human beasts. The Council selects August to guide a rag-tag group back across the mountains to make contact and assess the threat.

During the expedition, it is not only saber-toothed tigers, marauder groups, and drowned cities that will threaten their survival. August's past is intimately linked to the ongoing war between Libernia and those whom the pre-Fall scientists chose to resurrect from extinction, against nature's will. To save his adopted family, he’ll have an impossible choice: to join forces with an ancient enemy, reborn into the world, or align with the malevolent forces that destroyed it in the first place.

Either way, he'll decide the fate of those he loves, along with the future of life on the planet.

V.F. Aubrey’s relentlessly entertaining, YA science fiction adventure August of the People combines the genetic engineering science of Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park, the detailed world-building and engrossing relationships of Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games, and the low-tech future of Kass Morgan’s The 100.

Paperback and Hardcover editions include a special sneak peek at Book II of the Eternity’s Sunrise Saga: The Immortal City, coming February 2026 - available for pre-order now.