About the Book

A Futuristic Novel Depicts
California After the USA
Breaks Up

In the year 2075, after a long drought, California is transformed. The United States has collapsed and California has become an independent republic dominated by a powerful corporation. Bran, an 18-year-old shepherd, must travel through California in 10 days to keep his rural community from losing its land. He teams up with a run-away girl, a boy with uncanny skills, and a musician with a secret agenda.

This vivid dystopian fantasy is a chilling vision of what we might become. The well crafted story and plot flow naturally, and keep you hooked right up to the last page. Along the way, you will learn something about loyalty, friendship, and trust.

Here’s a sample: “The spear-straight firs that had once covered the gentle slope and obscured the view of Templeton are now just a memory recalled by a cemetery of bleached and rotten stumps. Templeton is as Bran has always known it; green, slope-roofed, homely buildings, baled like recycled newspapers by its sixteen-foot-high double barbed-wire fence.”

About the Author

Sheldon Greene is a critically acclaimed novelist who has been called “a born storyteller” by the Los Angeles Times for his book Lost and Found (Random House); “immensely entertaining” by Dallas Morning News. This is his fifth novel. He is a lawyer, an executive in a wind energy development company, and has a background of high impact public interest litigation.