The Fortune Follies

 Years after the end of World War Two, Sarah Igarashi departs from her home on the coast of Alaska to meet her cousin Penelope in Seattle where she stumbles to find her place in a new city filled with otherworldly technologies and ideals. Soon, Sarah finds herself drawn to a socialist cause and endeavors to propagate social change, even at the cost of her personal safety.Penelope Morgan is an outwardly confident sixteen-year-old who is quite comfortable navigating through a rapidly changing society while also pursuing a singing career. As she becomes more entwined in the criminal actions of the family business, she must make the choice between helping Sarah or achieving her dream

Although The Fortune Follies was first published by Double Dragon Publishing in 2018, with the recent sale of the imprint the rights to the novel have been reverted to me.



Author bio:



After growing up in the Pacific Northwest, Catori Sarmiento’s travels while being a military spouse have often inspired her unique writing style. Although she began writing at an early age, it was not until she began writing poetry during her time as a University of Maryland student that she decided to seriously pursue professional writing. She went on to study writing in a graduate program at National University of San Diego while also living in Tokyo, Japan. Upon graduation, she began writing what would become a first place Cygnus Award winning novel, The Fortune Follies. A year later, her next novel, Carnival Panic was published and went on to be on the short list for the International Drunken Druid Award, a Silver Award winner of the Literary Titan Book Award, and a Silver Award winner of the Kops-Fetherling International Book Awards.



She now finds herself living and working in Minot, North Dakota, and hopes that readers will find intrigue and entertainment in her stories!