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Sometimes losing your children is the only way to save them.
The year is 2039. Jean Bennett’s husband and sister have died from a mysterious illness. To save her children’s lives, she must leave the home she loves. Deep in grief, infected by a virus that might kill her at any time, and chased by government goons, Jean must be braver than she ever thought possible as she journeys to Canada to get her five children to safety. It should be a three-day car trip, but this ride is not like any they’ve ever taken. When Jean learns that children, originally thought to be immune, can be infected at fifteen, the stakes rise. Her oldest son just turned fourteen. Then their vehicle and all their supplies are stolen. As each new challenge changes her, Jean begins to understand what she must do to save her children. Just making it to Canada isn’t enough; she must make one final sacrifice.
The grueling journey of The Road meets the shifting perspectives of Station Eleven in this dystopian speculative fiction about a family that survives their worst fears as the known world and their certainty about who they are disintegrate during a thousand-mile race to safety. Sanctuary is a story about love and determination, a story of hope.
Caro wipes sweat from her forehead with her wrist, keeping the dirt-covered fingers of her glove pointed away from her face. She doesn’t want to streak her cheeks with mud.
“What about angels?” she asks, pulling off her gloves and adjusting her broad-brimmed sun hat.
“Angels?” I laugh. She hasn’t given up, only changed tacks. “What about them?”
“Do you believe in them?”
I look at her angular, still unlined face and wonder why she’s strug¬gling with this idea of deity today. “Why is this important now?”
“I saw something,” she says. “Hovering over the kids yesterday when they were playing in the trees. Something I don’t know how to explain.”
“Heat haze,” I guess. “Northern lights during the day. Electromag¬netic activity caused by sun flares. Auras.”
She lowers her eyes, a signal that she thinks I’m being flippant. In the world of all possible answers, I haven’t stumbled upon the right one.
“It’s a portent.” She stares into my eyes as if to send me a telepathic message. “You know, like Mom said. Something we’re supposed to notice.”
I tense. Our mother was not an oracle I would believe, but whatever Caro saw has meaning to her. I should pay attention instead of making light of it, even though I can’t resist teasing her. She’s always so serious.
“Okay. What does it portend?”
“I did something you’re going to be angry about.”
I stretch my neck, close my eyes to shutter my annoyance, and wait.
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Ginny Fite is an award-winning journalist and author of nine traditionally published novels, three collections of poetry, a collection of short stories, and a book of humorous essays on aging. A graduate of Rutgers University and Johns Hopkins University, her 40-year career in communications included posts in newspapers, government, higher education, and a robotics R&D company. Pushcart Prize nominated, shortlisted for the 2019 SFWP prize, a finalist for the 2020 Bakwin Prize, winner of the FAPA gold medal in fiction for the collaborative novel Thoughts & Prayers, her stories have appeared in The Delmarva Review, Women Arts Quarterly Journal, Heartwood Literary Magazine, Coffin Bell, and the Anthology of Appalachian Writers. Writing about ordinary people who grapple with extraordinary circumstances, her novels span the genres of mystery, thriller, adventure, speculative, and women’s fiction. Learn more at GinnyFite.com.
Published novels:
Sanctuary
Leave Everything You Know Behind
The Physics of Things
Possession
Blue Girl on a Night Dream Sea
No End of Bad
Lying, Cheating and Occasionally Murder
No Good Deed Left Undone
Cromwell’s Folly
Thoughts & Prayers (co-author)
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Looks fascinating!
This looks like a very good book.
I would enjoy reading this one.
Thank you so much for featuring SANCTUARY today.