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A fading desert town, a missing girl, and a teen searching for truth before it all closes. |
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Empire, Nevada is a lyrical coming-of-age novel set in a nearly abandoned desert town on the edge of collapse. Sixteen-year-old Paul and his friends—Chief, James, Slim, and Trish—are stuck between childhood and whatever comes next. The heat presses in. The silence deepens. And as one final summer unravels, their friendships are tested by grief, desire, and the quiet weight of survival. This is a story about the in-between spaces: between leaving and staying, memory and forgetting, holding on and letting go. It’s about the people who find you when everything else feels lost. With echoes of Looking for Alaska and The Outsiders, this debut novel captures the raw, poetic ache of growing up in a place no one believes in anymore. For readers drawn to found family, broken landscapes, and the fragile beauty of letting go—Empire, Nevada lingers like heat on the pavement, long after the last page. |
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