Jim Dougherty lives the kind of unsatisfied life familiar to many a middle-aged millennial. He’s stuck in a dead-end job at a tired old casino, haunted by regrets of unfulfilled childhood potential and going nowhere—slow. Every day it seems the life he was meant to live becomes a little further out of reach.
But when the oddly familiar stranger appears at his pre-dawn blackjack table with a new perspective on the mysteries of a shared past and offering the possibility of true success, Jim learns that living his best life has a price he may not be willing—or able—to pay. For Jim Dougherty, the road not taken turns out to be a dangerous one.
In his debut novella, M.L. Schepps has produced a unique blend of noir, sci-fi, satire and creative meditation sure to keep readers guessing until the final desert sunrise.