Into the Great Wide Open is a wartime romance set against the fall and rebirth of an occupied America.
On a cold November night in Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey, Jack Caldwell walks into Crossing Point carrying the weight of a revolution, a broken country, and a grief he can barely survive. Alina Kassovich arrives moments later-a young Navy nurse with secrets of her own, a dangerous past, and a strength that matches his.
As rebel forces fight to reclaim the nation, Jack and Alina are drawn together by loss, loyalty, and the fragile hope that something beautiful can still exist in the middle of war. From the Jersey Shore to New York, Atlantic City, and the final push west, their story becomes one of sacrifice, second chances, and the people we choose when everything else has been taken.
A sweeping alternate-history novel of love, rebellion, humor, heartbreak, and survival, Into the Great Wide Open asks what remains after the world you knew is gone-and whether two damaged people can find a future worth fighting for.