Shelter of Leaves

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>On Memorial Day a series of bomb explosions shuts down major cities across the US. Her apartment in ruins Sabine flees Washington DC and begins a grueling journey on foot that brings her to West Virginia where she finds safety at an abandoned farmhouse with other refugees. For Sabine family is a vague memory-she can't even remember her last name. Without an identity she hides-although thirty-five she pretends to be twenty-eight even to the refugee she falls in love with. But Sabine wants to recover her identity. Despite gangs bombings riots and spreading disease she longs to return to a family she has begun to recall-a mother a father and brothers. Are they alive surviving in hiding as she is? Do they await news and hope to reconcile? Even in harrowing times Sabine's desires to belong and to be loved pull her away from shelter.</span></p>