Wastelands

By Melissa Pimentel

Caught in the timeless, dreaming space between life and death, Lucy makes a fateful decision and enters a world where the lines between illusion and reality blur, where waking nightmares roam and she and her fellow inhabitants must earn their freedom through blood. Mirroring Lucy's struggles, her twin brother Kevin unknowingly watches over this battle while navigating his own wastelands; the ones he has created and the ones he rediscoveries in his estranged, dysfunctional family. Finding herself on the brink of death and guided by some unlikely and colourful companions, Lucy treks across an endless black desert lit by a sunless sky, seeking the elusive truths of her purgatory in order to escape, transforming herself in very unexpected ways in the process. Bearing his own battle scars, Kevin returns to a family that is struggling with the unexplained suicide of a favoured daughter and quickly discovers that he must shed the comforting weight of his old roles or risk losing his younger sister, Jackie, to the same wayward winds that have blown them all apart. The Wastelands explores the invisible lines between life and death, the fragile yet resilient lines that bind families, and the peculiar and particular line cast between Lucy and Kevin that bridges their alternate realities and ultimately brings them both into a world of their own choosing.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1492798517
• ISBN13: 9781492798514
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"