Fugue
By Anna Meshcherova
Sometimes the only way forward is back.
Josh Cummiskey has it all: wealth, influence, and the reputation of a brilliant biotech CEO in Canada. But when a health-data breach at his company sparks a national scandal, his world implodes overnight. Facing criminal investigation, Josh disappears—slipping across borders and identities in a desperate flight from the ruins of his life, and from himself.
On the run, Josh drifts through a series of fleeting encounters, each of which unearths fragments of a fractured past: his estranged father Charles, his failed relationship with Mai, and the deep unease that underpinned his success. The farther he travels, the more his identity dissolves, his life becoming a kind of fugue: part escape, part forgetting, part search for meaning.
A near-fatal accident in New Mexico forces Josh into stillness. Rescued by Alo, a reclusive healer, and Ana, Alo’s quietly steadfast partner, Josh finds refuge in a remote cabin, where the rhythms of nature and his caretakers’ austere calm begin to expose the hunger beneath his ambition—a lifelong attempt to earn love through achievement and success.
As he learns again how to listen and how to be, chance threatens his fragile transformation.
Fugue is a haunting exploration of identity and meaning.
Fugue is published by Nexum Books, the literary and genre fiction imprint of Ingenium Books.
Beneath that polish, something essential went missing. I pushed it aside for years, but it kept pressing back, harder each time, until I couldn’t hold it off any longer. It’s like the weight of the building itself finally collapsed inward, right onto the J of JBM Sciences. That’s when it hit me: I wasn’t who I thought I was and there was more to the story that I needed to uncover.
— from Fugue, by Anna Meshcherova
About Anna
Born in Moscow, raised in Barcelona, Mexico City, and Montreal, and fluent in English, Russian, French, and Spanish, Anna Meshcherova is a poet, novelist, and global citizen who writes from the fluid space between cultures, identities, and geographies.
She holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in journalism, and began her career as a cultural journalist covering art and music. Her professional path has then led her from translation to public relations to marketing, and she currently consults in marketing and communications with various technology companies.
Anna has previously published poetry in Russian literary journals, and she has several novels in progress. When she’s not writing, she’s raising two sons and occasionally sneaking outside to chase wind, snow, and a bit of adrenaline.
From a young age, I carried within me an immense, mystical interior world, a swirl of wonder, awe, pain, and imagination. I wasn’t encouraged to express myself out loud, so I turned inward, and writing became the only doorway to that inner life. Later, storytelling felt less like a choice and more like a necessity.
— Anna Meshcherova
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