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Among the Ruins

An aspiring actress wakes to discover that she's the only person still alive after a plague has devastated the world. With no purpose left, she finds herself almost unable to go on, until she meets literally the last man on earth.

Together the pair find a reason to live within each other, and work to build a life on a beautiful, quiet Earth they have all to themselves.

But when a message from someone long thought dead warns that all is not as it appears, paranoia sets in. Is the last man on earth her charming savior or a creepy captor?

Gripping, packed with twists and turns from the first page to the very last, this stunning psychological thriller is a rollercoaster of a read that explores gaslighting, Stockholm Syndrome, disassociation, mental illness, existentialism, and the search for purpose in an absurd universe.

$11.95 retail. 172 pages, 8.0"x5.0", trade paperback
Published by Dark Mountain Books
Physical ISBN: 978-1-931468-36-7, electronic ISBN: 978-1-931468-80-0

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Among the Ruins is Dominic Peloso's fourth novel, but you can read my first three novels too if you'd like:

His first novel is called City of Pillars and it's a sort of conspiracy-laden adventure novel. It's a cautionary tale of obsession and the Men in Black. I like to tell people that it's a cross between Fight Club and DaVinci Code, or maybe its like if Cormac McCarthy tried to write an episode of the X-Files.

If you are more interested in City of Pillars, and you can read more about it and download a free copy of that book HERE.

Unlike City of Pillars, Dominic's second novel, Adopted Son, is an uplifting world-spanning story about babies... alien babies! How cute is that?!? Darn cute, that's for sure. It is also about farming, bioterrorism, the civil rights movement, and third world revolutions. Although nominally a story of alien invasion based on Roswell Incident and the stories of 'abductees', it touches on a lot of today's social and political topics including; racism, terrorism, xenophobia, war, the intelligence community, bio-warfare, love, peace, family, genetic engineering, militarism, government bureaucracy, and what it means to be human.

That novel is called Adopted Son, and you can read more about it and download a free copy of that book HERE.

I also have a third novel, pretentiously titled, First World Problems in an Age of Terrorism and Ennui. I guess it is classified as 'contemporary literary fiction,' which basically means that it's not sci-fi or fantasy or romance, or any genre like that. It's just about regular people living in the regular world. In this case the regular world is Washington DC at the dawn of the third millennium (aka the year 2000). It's basically about people who don't deal very well with the fact that their lives are pretty comfortable and easy and they want more out of life, but don't know how to ask for it. Which is sort of where I was in life when I wrote it.

If you are more interested in First World Problems in an Age of Terrorism and Ennui, and you can read more about it and download a free copy of that book HERE.