Cynthia Kraack: 4 books

“Big Brother goes stark raving mad in Harvesting Ashwood,     Cynthia Kraack's engrossing drama about family love versus an unfeeling bureaucracy. The author paints a dystopian future that's scary as hell. It makes Ayn Rand's Anthem and Jack ­London's The Iron Heel look like a day at the beach.” -- David Housewright, Edgar Award winning author of Curse of the Jade Lily

"Cynthia Kraack’s immediately transfixing Ashwood deftly swings us into a not-too-distant future of limited natural resources and unlimited challenges, and into the life of a young government worker beginning an assignment as matron of an agricultural estate, where being certain of who you...

The Ashwood trilogy ends three decades after failure of the global economy. The big question is answered. If world leaders had the opportunity to build from scratch, what would happen? At the half point of the twenty-first century, corporate spinners say: ''The vote of a shareholder is a commitment to building a better world, while the vote of a citizen is an uneducated guess.''

"Readers who have loved 1984, Brave New World, Soylent Green, Fahrenheit 451, or the The Handmaid's Tale will devour this book, too. Rigorously plotted and carefully written, the author brings Minnesota into a frightening fictional future with no holds barred and no politically correct nods to...