Come Down Somewhere

For fans of WWII fiction comes a powerful novel by Jennifer L. Wright about two young women coming of age during the Trinity nuclear bomb test in 1945.

Sixteen-year-old Olive Alexander has lived on a ranch in the Jornada del Muerto region of southern New Mexico her entire life. But when World War II begins, the government seizes her family’s land for the construction of a new, top secret Army post.

While her mother remains behind, Olive is forced to live in nearby Alamogordo with her grandmother and find a place in a new school. When Jo Hawthorne crosses her path, Olive sees a chance for friendship—until she learns that Jo’s father is the Army sergeant who now occupies her beloved ranch. Already angry about her new reality, Olive pushes Jo away. But as she struggles to make sense of her grandmother’s lapses into the past and increasingly unsettling hints about what’s happening at the ranch, she slowly warms to Jo’s winsome faith and steady attempts at friendship . . . until one devastating day when the sky explodes around them and their lives are torn apart.

Seven years later, Jo returns to Alamogordo, still angry and wounded by the betrayals of that fateful day. Determined to put the past behind her once and for all, Jo hunts for answers and begins to realize the truth may be far more complicated than she believed, leading her on a desperate search to find her friend before it’s too late.

1. Opening Credits
2. Dedication
3. Chapter 1: Olive
4. Chapter 2: Jo
5. Chapter 3: Olive
6. Chapter 4: Jo
7. Chapter 5: Olive
8. Chapter 6: Jo
9. Chapter 7: Olive
10. Chapter 8: Jo
11. Chapter 9: Olive
12. Chapter 10: Jo
13. Chapter 11: Olive
14. Chapter 12: Jo
15. Chapter 13: Olive
16. Chapter 14: Jo
17. Chapter 15: Olive
18. Chapter 16: Jo
19. Chapter 17: Olive
20. Chapter 18: Jo
21. Chapter 19: Olive
22. Chapter 20: Jo
23. Chapter 21: Olive
24. Chapter 22: Jo
25. Chapter 23: Olive
26. Chapter 24: Jo
27. Chapter 25: Jo
28. Chapter 26: Olive
29. Chapter 27: Jo
30. Chapter 28: Olive
31. Epilogue: Jo
32. Closing Credits