Circumstantial Fortune

Circumstantial Fortune is an intimate, disjointed examination of the messy political and personal lives of those who rule Meraki and Lacuna, the last two nations still standing above the ever-rising sear. Meraki and Lacuna are two disparate islands, one ten times larger than the other, both created and sustained by old magic that has, to date, kept the worst of the outside world at bay. The turmoil within that ends up enveloping every character is explained by the life of an Other named Joseph Inganno, a shifter who can exist at will as his Other self - a massive grizzly. Joseph is made a General at an impossibly young age, and though the novel begins with a look at his later adulthood, it is not long before readers become acquainted with the idea that mistakes made long ago, left uncorrected, have a way of seeking him out. Joseph’s younger years were both privileged and punctuated by trauma, and decisions made in his youth reverberate far into his future, affecting anyone close to him. Circumstantial Fortune exposes Joseph’s faults, but also the cruel coincidences of his life and the arduous journeys of his twenties, and the men he loved throughout it all. Book One of the Last Call Series sets the scene for trouble from the past that threatens to destroy their slim chance of a future.