Avis Kalfsbeek

What if we made something beautiful from what was built to harm? A small town of nature-loving misfits turns the steel of guns into the frames of bicycles. When a school shooting shatters the quiet Inland Northwest town of Sandglass, best friends Tilly and Camas refuse the familiar cycle of grief and paralysis. They decide to do something. What begins as a conversation at a community gathering becomes the Melt Zone, a movement to turn the town's weapons into bicycles.
The gang is along for the ride: the Bike Guys, Moore and Spit, Vovo, and the ever-faithful Pedro. But Sandglass has been watched for a long time. As the movement grows and pressure builds, Tilly follows a trail that leads far beyond her small town and into a decades-long system of propaganda and profit. At its center is Operation BB Gun, a program with deeper roots and intentions than anyone expected. Back home, Camas fights to hold the town together as threats escalate and the future of the Melt Zone hangs in the balance. Set in a world of forge fire, gravel bikes, wildflowers, toddlers, and loyal dogs, Bullet Poof is a story of friendship, transformation, and the courage to build something better. Bullet Poof is Book 7 in the Pedro the Water Dog Saves the Planet series and can be enjoyed as a standalone.