Marisol has carried a raven feather, a warm cherry pie, a jar of eggroll ingredients, a penguin pebble, a dead decoy key, a puzzle piece, a three-legged wooden horse, and a cat who has died more times than either of them can count.Now the shelf is almost full. The letter has arrived. The number is nearly readable. Three moons left - a petty bay that swallows castles, an old band held together by grudges and ghost musicians, and a final exam that reduces everything she's done to bubbles on a scan-tron sheet.This is the last volume. This is how it ends. Dennis Santaniello is a New Jersey–born author who writes novels, screenplays, and essays. His work moves between historical fiction and nonfiction, with a steady interest in how people carry memory, loyalty, and damage through time. His books include Sergei and Hans, a World War I novel set on the Eastern Front, The Conquistadors Trilogy about the Spanish conquest of the Americas, the nonfiction series The Fruits of History, and Dennis At The Movies. He publishes independently and approaches his work with patience, curiosity, and a voice shaped by long years of writing and revisiting the same questions from different angles.
