THE LONGEST HARVEST

The Longest Harvest is speculative fiction, a dystopian survival story that explores themes of loss, morality, violence, and redemption. Here’s a sneak peek summary:

In the wake of global cardiac failure, Lee is among the last generation of adults, though she doesn’t feel like one. At 20, she is her camp’s organ harvester and surrogate mother to its children. Outside their walls, beating hearts are commodities to kill for, taken and transplanted for extra time. Inside, there are not enough to go around. When Connor appears, a man whose heart has an unthinkable 75 years to offer, she is drawn into a suicide run to escort him cross-country to be studied for a cure. But the rest of the team are mostly young orphans she’d give her life to protect—and who must now be expendable donors to feed the mission’s violent needs.

They struggle westward, under threat from wild animals, killers seeking to steal Connor’s decades, and betrayal in their own ranks. As the losses mount amid a shifting landscape of grey morality, and as Lee grows closer to the man whose heart holds the key to saving humanity, she must decide if the cost of this rescue is one she will pay: the death of everyone she loves.