The Last Person To Appluad – Paperback

Sixteen years ago, Nell Arlen watched her younger sister disappear beneath the water of a flood barrier. There was never a body, but everyone agreed Mara was dead.

Then a postcard arrives in Mara’s handwriting.

I WAS NEVER IN THE WATER.

The address leads Nell to Saltmere, a nearly abandoned town in the Nevada desert. There are no clouds, yet the streets sometimes smell of rain. Recordings contain voices that shouldn’t exist. Photographs show people in places they’ve never been, and the locals seem afraid to speak about the old quarry.

Nell came to find her sister. Instead, she begins uncovering a history that changes every time someone tries to remember it.

The deeper she searches, the more she questions what really happened sixteen years ago. Someone in Saltmere knows the truth, but the town has a way of making people forget the things they most need to remember.

And Nell may have been brought there for a reason that has nothing to do with finding Mara.