Last Living Girl

“They’re old photos from when the pandemic first started. [...] My nurse said they’re here so we don’t forget where we came from.”

The world didn't end, but Dover-Valle Syndrome (DVS) is here to stay. The disease's inevitable onset is about to disrupt fourteen-year-old Mia Delgado's high school career and unearth the darkness hidden within her subconscious.

"Scissors snipped around her shoulders. Cold water dribbled onto her neck. A feverish haze hung in the air."

Decades ago, a virus called Dover-Valle Syndrome (DVS) swept across the globe. Doctors never found a cure, but they found a solution: yearly injections that delay symptoms until puberty. Once the symptoms start, patients undergo intensive treatment until their body fights off the disease.

Fourteen-year-old Mia Delgado is about to enter this rite of passage. Checking into Fontaine, the local medical clinic, means enduring pills, doctors and a growing sickness that will inevitably send her into a coma-like state. But as an overconfident teenager, she's not too concerned. And Fontaine isn't all bad. She makes new friends, enjoys smaller class sizes and gets a temporary break from her absent father and high-strung mother.

Still, DVS is about to take her on a journey: one into the deep recesses of her mind, a path that challenges relationships and reveals subconscious pain. And when she reads the diary of a girl who survived the pandemic's destruction, she realizes how much she's taken for granted.

Last Living Girl is a fresh take on pandemic stories. Humanity survived a near apocalypse, but a depleted population and failed medicine force ordinary people, like Mia, to adjust to this troubled new world.

Order your copy today, and join Mia as she navigates an alternate history that's eerily similar and yet strikingly alien to our own.