The Nuclear Winter

Summary

Eighth-grader Lucy Sandoval has no hope of reaching high school.  Blindsided by a terminal cancer diagnosis, she resolves to spend her last moments with the father she never knew. But he disappeared years ago, and Lucy’s mother is tight-lipped about him and their shared past beyond his vague whereabouts.  With no help and little to no leads, Lucy’s loses faith, when tragedy strikes and brings her cross-country flight down mid-air. But she and her mother miraculously survive. Following a firefight with mercenaries, her mother takes down barehanded. Lucy is forced to confront a lifetime’s worth of questions, lies, and betrayal plus master an explosive newfound power all her own. Then, in a new world she barely understands, Lucy must fight death at every turn to stop a rising threat and cataclysmic, planet-altering destruction - no matter how much time she has left.  The Nuclear Winter: A Reject High Legacy Novel is a thrilling hero’s journey where a young girl comes of age by learning to master the mysterious potential she finds within herself.

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