Hidden in Plain Sight (Early Preview №2)

[PREVIEW]

“Ooh! I can’t believe they’re all the same guy!” Julie said giddily as she looked in the cover at the author’s signature, “Ren Ya Dang has got talent!”

“Who woulda known that the same guy that wrote The Supernatural Crime also wrote the Sapphire Twister series?”

“If you’d have told me that Ren Ya Dang writes pony fanfiction a month ago, I woulda checked you for narcotics!” Julie said, “The guy can take anything and make it original again! It’s an underappreciated skill, I’m tellin’ ya.”

“I still can’t believe he wrote that story about The Croods,” George said, getting into the turn lane as he came off of the bridge, “If only the road designers were as good at this as Ren was at writing.”

One thing that always baffled the two was that they lived in Sandy, which was its own city. How the place was laid out, however, was that Sandy was like a subdivision of Lamton, although when the metro area was organized, it was named Lamton and the city took on the name North Lamton to differentiate it from the metro area.

It was a mess of naming at the end of the day, but at least it meant that neither of them had to live on a trucking route.

“You know you could just clip the interstate and not have to deal with this traffic, right?”

“I’ve done that a few times, mostly before and after classes,” George said, “I’m not taking Exit 4A. Peacock Drive is hell at lunch.”

“Can’t you come up from the parkway?”

“I’d just meet the same traffic I’m avoiding. Usually, it’s better on gas if I just come up to where Jonathon Boulevard becomes the highway and file in at the end of the line. By the time I get to Peacock Drive, it doesn’t matter too much anyway. The bypass highway forks out and continues on, Leafgreen Avenue is two roads off of the fork.”

“It’d be funny if we gave someone directions,” Julie said, a chuckle in her voice.

Eventually making it to the house, they didn’t see anything off- George’s now-father’s SUV was parked in the driveway with his mother’s Volkswagen next to it, both in their usual places. The only thing that didn’t seem normal was what looked like a set of tire tracks from a dually and all eight tires were flat.

My uncle’s at the beach, he couldn’t have gotten here unless…

“Everything okay?” Julie asked.

“Something’s off,” George said, getting on a video call with his uncle, who was living it up in Panama.

[END OF PREVIEW]

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Everything was going well for George Stanminson and Julie Corella until one day, after a book signing and lunch, they both returned to their house, only to find a not-so-nice surprise. On the outside, everything looked to be intact, but what had, earlier, been Home Sweet Home now resembled facing the lions' den.

Full of starving lions.

To a young couple just starting out, the world can seem like an intimidating place- full of scares and surprises, but their starting point should've been one of the best on the board. All of the cards were in their deck, nothing could have went better for the two.

Except for that one card.

While the two were innocent-minded young people starting out in the world, one of the two had a not-so-well backstory that, in a matter of a few hours, went from bad to worse. Who will come out victorious? Who will still be able to walk at the end? Can they ever return to the status quo, or has it been engraved in their new lives.

Coming soon to the Kobo eBook Store.