Preparing lavish dinners never happens in the old haunted house Ben provides for four homeless teens: Cori, Chuck, Adam and Emily. In the suspense novel, Sheltered, a taste for freedom, acceptance, or revenge is on their tongues more than any other flavor. Packing school lunches with plain old peanut butter sandwiches is a chore left to Emily. Her heart is breaking over Ben when he rents the last room to pretty little Megan. Megan should have been thinking about formula and baby food and how she could regain custody, but that ends up on the stove’s back burner when she falls for Ben.
Spaghetti, macaroni and cheese, and of course pizza are the staples when you have an unwed mom, schizophrenic twins, and a Goth teen taking turns cooking. With so many problems in one stitched together household mealtime can be the most stressful of all, even if they stick to comfort food.
Strange things begin to happen, not only in the kitchen, but in the attic and the basement. Maybe the ghosts or demons or whatever are preparing their own feast. Any ideas what they’d want to devour?
And then there’s the vending machine at school. When Emily spots Chuck—or is it Adam?—hiding out there she stops thinking about chocolate, the weird things she’s seen at the house and even her own self-inflicted wounds … because something worse than the paranormal happenings at home is about to happen.
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Update from the author:
ReplyDeleteHowdy! Books 1, 2 and 3 of The Time Bender series are out now and the final 4th book will be released in April. Here's the link to get you started on an epic young adult ( moderately sci-fi) adventure:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0751J1QZF
And if you prefer a stand alone time travel suspense novel check out The Girl in the Time Machine
The Girl in the Time Machine https://www.amazon.com/.../ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_4ClDAbCHNVYE2