I consider BooksBNimble to be an acceptable, not self-pub, press, but if you disagree with me, skip this post. (My decision is based on the facts that BNB is run by an Edgar-award winning author, they have editors and I don't find their books full of errors, and I like multiple books by a lot of their authors, including Julie Smith, Tracy Whiting, Shelley Singer, and Tony Dunbar.)
Anyway, one of the authors that I like for her mysteries, Shelley Singer, has started a post-apocalyptic series, the Blackjack Trilogy, published by BNB. And the first book in the series,
Torch Song, is free right now at Kindle US. I haven't read this title, and don't read much post-apocalyptic fiction anyway, so can't vouch for this title, but free is free, and I'll probably give it a try pretty soon.
link:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IGK6UNW
Spoiler:
Quote:
IT’S 2066. AND YOU CAN'T TRUST ANYBODY…
"Fast-paced action and a decisive, strong-minded heroine make this a good choice for fans of the postapocalyptic thrillers." --Library Journal
Fans of Lisbeth Salander of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Katniss Everdeen of The Hunger Games will love Rica Marin, a new kickass, gunslinging heroine.
Rica Marin’s a mercenary—a hired gun, soldier, and spy who answers only to whoever can keep her in the meds she and her only living relative need to survive the plagues that scourge the earth after biological warfare’s wiped out pretty much everything.
It’s a strange world that’s left—composed of tiny city-states like Redwood, Sierra, and Rocky—run with a variety of futuristic machines and broken-down ones. Fancy new cars float as well as roll, but the Internet’s now so glitchy you can't even blog properly—newspapers have come back! So many machines are in disrepair that a fixer in this world isn't someone who rigs elections or cleans up after murders—it’s a person who can repair both an elevator and an ancient toilet. But roving bands of bandits, godders, causies, breeders, khakis, and toxies threaten to destroy what’s just been fixed.
Anywhere there are people—however few—there’ll be power plays, and Rica’s current job at the Blackjack Casino is to run interference between the warring clans of Tahoe, in tiny Sierra. But then the city-state of Rocky gets ambitious. And that means war.
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EDIT: also free at Kindle UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00IGK6UNW