Ruin's Wake

A moving and powerful science fiction novel with themes of love, revenge and identity on a totalitarian world. Ruin's Wake imagines a world ruled by a totalitarian government, where history has been erased and individual identity is replaced by the machinations of the state. As the characters try to save what they hold most dear in one case a dying son, in the other secret love their fates converge to a shared destiny. An old soldier in exile embarks on a desperate journey to find his dying son. A young woman trapped in an abusive marriage with a government official finds hope in an illicit love. A female scientist uncovers a mysterious technology that reveals that her world is more fragile than she believed.