In HOPE:A GOING HOME NOVEL, two of America's finest post-apocalyptic authors have created a novel that's imbued with a bit of intrigue, tragedy, and despair. But more than anything else, it fills the reader with . . . Hope. Almost predictable in its outcome, we see sisters Charlotte & Hope seized from their family only to be befriended by one of their captors. But when tragedy strikes and the girls are separated, big sister Charlotte thinks of little more than saving her younger sister Hope. Meanwhile Neal & Carlos, longtime friends working desperately to survive the new reality also are beset with tragedy. Only one of them survives. As the other, as well as both men's families meet an untimely death due first to cartel members & then an unknown illness. The survivor funds young Charlotte, who wants nothing more than to rescue little sister Hope. And this is where it all comes together for one & all. Sorry, I've given away far too much already. But I will say that this little novel left my heart filled with joy. Lacking in tactical scenarios & radical combat scenarios, but filled with the promise of redemption for those who seek to do the right thing, it was a nice departure from all the doom & gloom so common in the genre.And I enjoyed it immensely.