The Last Circle is a chilling and brutal account of a genocide driven take-over of America by radical, right-wing, Christian conservatives.
Based upon existing platforms and quotes from American Conservative political and church leaders, The Last Circle chronicles the rise to power of a United States Evangelical theocracy and the small group of Pagan and LGBT friends who must escape the country in order to survive.
The U.S. economy is plunged into depression allowing a charismatic preacher to seize control of the government as the leader of the Tea Party and 'Revangelism' movements. With the support of a starving nation, he engages in a gruesome, systematic program of religious and cultural cleansing.
Laura Salway is the leader of a devoted group of friends who maintain a precarious Wiccan Coven in Indianapolis. After publicly performing a Pagan ritual in protest of the new administration, they attempt to flee to the safety of Europe. In a cat and mouse chase through the Southern states, they are relentlessly pursued by Shelby Langman, the vitriolic director of the Bureau of Religious Protection, charged with keeping America safe from threats to Judeo-Christian values.
Their terrifying journey tests the limits of the Coven's friendship and Laura must discover who among them is secretly tipping Shelby off.
"A compelling read. Well-conceived and grippingly structured and told. The Last Circle is disturbing in its indictment of an America we are slowly becoming. Like a passenger trapped in a car slowly skidding on an icy road toward the edge of a ravine, the reader must confront the looming reality of a theocracy in the United States - and what that would mean for those who have been the focus of that regressive movement's obsessive hate for decades."
"The discussion within this book is certainly a relevant one and something that is important to think about. Each chapter begins with a quote from a modern-day conservative and some of them are frightening in their complete lack of understanding, humanity or even comprehension of the basic fundamentals of Christianity."
"I got angry, upset, I laughed giggled and couldn't read The Last Circle fast enough. Then I would go back and reread the pages just to make sure I didn't miss anything."
"I'm not even sure where to start on this book other than: READ IT. So many of the thoughts conveyed are ones I have often had. The what ifs. The "How can anyone think like that?" or better yet, "Do people really think that way?" Turns out they do. When reading the quotes that preface each chapter, I was thinking them figments of Gretchen's imagination, perhaps Shelby's thoughts. Imagine my surprise when I finished the book to see the key of whom said such heinous things."
"Well written and frighteningly realistic. Once you start reading it's hard to put down. Page after page the fear escalates until you are seeing connections on the evening news. This is a scary look at where we are headed, if the right wing, evangelical Christians are not reined in."
"A very compelling thriller, set in a near-future American dystopia. What could happen if all of the fundamentalist Christian wing-nuts got it all their own way politically? This, like the very different "Handmaid's Tale", shows a version of the results, and why we need to take their sometimes ridiculous rhetoric seriously."