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Category:
Action/Thriller
Publisher: Thomas J. Koelsch
ISBN-10: 1511627344
Type: Fiction
Pages: 238
Copyright: May 6, 2015
ISBN-13: 9781511627344
Price: $9.95 (eBook)
Victoria’s Peace, a psychological Novel by Thomas J. Koelsch
Imagine Huckleberry Finn, sold and subsequently adopted at birth through an underground market, waking up in an urban world of wealth, a dysfunctional family, ROTC prep schools, and trussed in a stubborn and unforgiving religion. Add to this an illicit love story, a mystery to resolve, a psychological thriller, and Victoria, an indomitable alter ego who abducts Huckleberry only to set him free in one of the cleverest escape adventures of all time.
Excerpt
The Incarceration: The room was cold and dark. Outside, the wind wailed in the trees, and frigid branches rapped the frosted windowpanes. Shrill, sharply honed cries rose from a white crib set on casters in one corner of the room. Like an invisible shield, the smell of urine surrounded the crib, and two tiny fists reached between the high wooden slats that enclosed it. The fists stabbed at the darkness with short, jerky movements, and the cries ascended to a high-pitched squeal.
Suddenly, a rectangular square of light opened in one wall. Two quivering black shadows slithered, like garden snakes, beneath the crib. Then there were garbled noises:
"What're we going to do, daddy?"
"Stop calling me that! You was the one who wanted it. A status symbol, you said. Buy one on the underground market, you said, like he's a commodity on Wall Street."
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