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After the fall of society, Charlie is captured by a group of escaped convicts camped out in the wilderness, where she's forced to become a "wife." But when she falls in love with fellow-wife Chandler, a seventeen-year-old boy, the two decide to rise up against their captors. It's The Handmaid's Tale meets The Road.

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In first-person narration that alternates between Charlie and Chandler, this upcoming speculative fiction is a romantic-thriller packed with secret codes, slaughter, and Stockholm Syndrome. It's a story of survivors of the end of the world, paralleled with themes of surviving sexual abuse.

Tapping into our current-day culture of reexamining oppression, gender roles, and sexual fluidity, The Last Wife brings us along as Charlie and Chandler take their power back, and all in an exciting post-apocalyptic landscape. But will they be able to pull the trigger on their captors?

And even if they do, have Charlie and Chandler already lost themselves – and each other – in the process of just trying to survive?

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