Secure The Colour: Shapes in the Grass, a new novel by Chris Yeoh and Laine Pearce-Rees
“There was a world out there full of wonder, a violence of colours. Yet those in charge lived with their eyes purely on the value of its belly.”
Shapes in the Grass is the first book of Secure the Colour, a dystopian fantasy series about the Greyshun family as they try to reunite, battling against the tide of war, greed, and zealotry. It is an ecological, anti-authoritarian, post-steampunk exploration of the true cost of a society that prizes a powerful mineral above human lives.
Synopsis
Ruthless ruling corporations wage holy war in pursuit of the Colour – a mysterious mineral that fuels machines and floats continents. To the brutal Trident Extraction Corporation, it's divine. To the monstrous Alchemy Mining Company, it represents limitless power.
When the Extraction Wars demand more, they descend upon the quiet town of Amberley, where the Greyshun family is torn apart and cast into chaos. Theodore, a blacksmith, is conscripted and, in the fires of battle, uses and adapts his skills to change the course of the war. Meredith, his wife, is sent into forced labour at a water collection camp, where she draws the attention of the administration and uses her cunning to plant the seeds of resistance. Freddie, their daughter, escapes capture and finds herself adrift among the orphans of war, where she must decide where her future lies. Hardships and life-changing choices shape their adventures, but the thought of reunion guides their hearts.
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About the authors
Hello, we're Chris and Laine - independent authors from the UK. We have been a creative duo since 2007, writing music and stories ideas, which have culminated in the Secure the Colour, which we started writing in 2019.
Chris is a writer from Glasgow who works in community arts. He is inspired by the power of the human spirit and its fearlessness against injustices. He has been writing since he was a child, and has self-published two parts of a science-fiction series ‘A Generation of Ghosts’, and one short horror anthology ‘When The Dead Walked’.
Laine is from Bath, where he works for the NHS, but previously had a career as a live sound engineer. He has a love for the great-outdoors and is ecologically minded. Having a lifelong passion for story and world building, with a vivid imagination.