How does one take back the unforgivable? How does one carry on when no one else would be capable of going on living with themselves? Yet how can one give up when they've been taught their whole life that that isn't an option? Circumstantial Fortune takes place in Meraki, one of only two final outposts of humanity on earth, and is an intimate yet disjointed look at the life and times of Joseph Inganno, one of the Others, the magical beings tasked with keeping Meraki and its neighbor Lacuna thriving and above sea level. Choices made impulsively, with the best of intentions, while still well within the bounds of the folly of youth, haunt Joseph in the circumstances – and unexpected happiness – he finds himself experiencing in the first chapter. The lives of the citizens of Meraki and Lacuna at large, and particularly of those featured and followed within this first volume in the series, are so intertwined and engrained with one another that it is impossible for anyone, Joseph especially, to decipher what's the predestined work of generations of optionless inbreeding among the Others, and what's their own inability to make the right decision. Circumstantial Fortune is a raw, twisted snapshot of Joseph's childhood and youth, his teenage exile, the work of his young adulthood that gained him his infamy, and the grossly improbable, rash decisions that situated him in the comfort and prominence of his thirties and forties. None of this would be complete without the many men in his life who defined every step of the way. Circumstantial Fortune is the first in the Last Call Series, and it sets the stage for earth's last two nations at war, both with surrounding forces and within their own civil ranks, both having to decide what is important, what is worth preserving into the dark, unsure future awaiting both nations.