Left on Rancho

Francesco Paola’s debut novel, LEFT ON RACHO, is an engaging suspense novel following a burned-out tech entrepreneur, Andrew, coming to a dead-end desert town to help his childhood best friend save his cannabis business. The book digs into the nuts and bolts of both the legal and illegal aspects of the cannabis business world in great detail, along with the extreme party aspect involved in marketing and raising funds from investors. It also intersects with the issues of illegal immigration and the for-profit prison culture. Along the way, Andrew falls in love and learns a lot about his own values, boundaries, and loyalties. The setting is an additional character in the story, making the Mojave Desert come to life.