Even Climate Change Can't Stop Love and Murder: Volume 2: Paying the Price

“Romance fans will enjoy the Alby-Ginger dynamic, which illustrates the stops-and-starts of nurturing a relationship amid the distraction of running for one’s life…a literary thrill ride full of sharp social commentary wrapped in a mystery with a touch of romance.” —IndieReader

“The book's setting in the period of the climate crisis gives this exciting tale a new level of suspense. I suggest this book to people who like slow-burning thrillers with a touch of romance, contemporary world issues, and American politics.” —Pacific Book Review

“Weaving such a human and real love story into a thriller was a perfect way to hook the audience...Highly recommended." —JJ Barnes, Editor at The Table Read

“The audience is captivated by both love and murder in real-to-life situations...” —April Michelle Davis, Executive Director, National Association of Independent Writers & Editors

Will Ginger and Alby survive their new home in the West? At times, it seems doubtful they will make it to Sedona, Arizona. Even worse, they have no idea of the danger that waits for them there.

As they cross the United States to relocate to their new witness protection home in Arizona, Ginger and Alby’s search for love is marred by violent interludes with insurrectionists, white supremacists, and jihadists. Yet the worse threat of all is the fury of climate chaos—storms beyond measure, a bitter fact of life in 2026. And as our characters soon discover, even more, these storms' death and destruction are insidiously random—and for them, become very personal.

Even Climate Change Can't Stop Love and Murder, Volume 2: Paying the Price is the second novel of this romance thriller series and offers a uniquely American vision of love and murder, trauma and healing. Traveling with Alby, Ginger shares her life with him, but not the dark secrets of her childhood which explain so much of her strong, determined character. All the threads of the old life and new culminate at Tuzigoot National Monument, where Ginger and Alby face certain death—and someone pays the price.

Praise for Volume 1: Break the Bank “…packed with shady characters, double-dealing, and violence…Alby and Ginger are the novel’s driving force, and thankfully for thriller fans, they are well worth spending time with.” —BlueInk

A.E.S. O'Neill grew up going to private school paid for by a mobster father, rocks out to the Grateful Dead and Beethoven for inspiration, reads comics to never lose his inner-child, and approaches the world with a "I-could-give-a-shit" about most of society's rules- except for the importance of decency, empathy and humanity. Roll it all up? He gathers and tells stories.After several decades of film school, professional writing, public speaking, and travel blogging (www.outsokentraveler.com) experience, his debut novel, Even a Pandemic Can't Stop Love and Murder, a three-volume, romance/thriller that takes place in the mid-2020s, is based on a true story. Told to him by his father years ago, the plot centers on a robbery at mob-owned bank and the violent consequences that followed.From a childhood marked by wiretaps, mob dinners, and FBI agents following his father, O'Neill learned to understand the complexities of love, crime, and human behavior that drives right and wrong. Inspired by the snappy patter of 1930s talkies, and the mundane, ever present danger of the Pandemic Era, he used this story to show what he believes are the major themes in human behavior: the interplay of light and dark, of love and death, of choices made and lived with. Despite all of his own life's more challenging lessons, O'Neill knows that love will always win.Two subsequent volumes in the Even a Pandemic series-Paying the Price and Checking Out-are soon to come.