Introducing The Last Departure

A Subscriber Only Sneak Peek

Hi friends! The first two paragraphs are the “pitch” for my novel. Subscribers will get to read the first chapter below.

Leticia Salcedo is a single mom raising her two daughters in the futuristic but nostalgic Las Vegas, the only place in the country that is still permitted unlimited use of the water and energy the rest of the country is restricted from using. While fretting about her older daughter’s looming conscription, Leti creates an imaginary church to assuage her rule-abiding younger daughter and to avoid further social restrictions.

Leti’s ex-husband demands that she remain in their home but when Leti is warned by visitors that she must leave the city to protect her children, she decides to flee with a stranger who trusts her instincts. Leti’s journey to safety at her sister’s ranch is interrupted when she is kidnapped by a fundamentalist cult leader and again when she must reckon with her ex-husband’s disappearance. Leti is ultimately forced to choose between her and her daughters’ freedom and the popular new religion she has created.