Waverly's Universe — Jim Trainor

Honorable Mention, ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year 2012 Living in the shadow of his famous father, Josh Waverly is a physicist going through the motions of his monotonous life with few friends. Evangelina Gomez has grown up in a traditional Hispanic family in a remote village in northern New Mexico and guards secrets that could be the undoing of her entire family. They have little in common, other than the fear and shame that cast darkness over their futures. But Evangelina and Josh's lives are on a collision course, as they are thrown together and pursued by relentless, unknown killers. In a desperate flight for survival, Josh and Evangelina take refuge in a run-down nursing home in the middle of nowhere, among the aged and the dying. In this place of seeming helplessness and isolation, they must confront old demons, even as they are catapulted toward a final deadly showdown that means reaching for strength that may be beyond their grasp.