Blurb
A conversation with a stranger changes Amelia Hamilton's life forever. When she learns her grandfather faked his own death, normalcy slips from Amelia's grasp. To make matters worse, he is coming for her in less than seven days. What she hasn't determined is why.
Amelia's grandfather, Marius Benedict, once headed The Physician Coalition, an elite group of doctors who threw the Hippocratic Oath out the window. Years ago, they used a low-risk medical research study as a front for their experiments. Without their consent, innocents were injected with JackRabbit7, a hazardous substance used to alter their DNA. The victims were left with less-than-desirable super-human powers or excruciating death. Years after he disbanded the group, Marius has a new plan and is reforming The Coalition.
Max, a mysterious stranger from the Insurance Agency, offers to help keep Amelia safe. He introduces The Agency as an underground government organization that contains and eliminates those who intend to harm the world. To protect The Agency, the truth of their activities are concealed and replaced with sugar-coated stories in the media.
Over the course of the next week, Amelia has to accept the truth and learn who can be trusted. At midnight on her 23rd birthday, a contract between The Coalition and The Insurance Agency will expire, giving Marius full rein to approach his granddaughter and finish the project he started with her so many years ago.
Excerpt
“When did you do that?” I nodded toward the window as I scrubbed a fork.
“Do what?” he asked.
“The snowman. What else?”
“What snowman, Amelia?” He stood up.
“The one on the side of the house. It looks just like you.” When I turned off the water and turned around he was gone. “Max?”
I walked over into the living room and was met with a breeze. The door was wide open and footprints led off the porch into the snow.
I put on my boots, not taking extra time to lace them and darted out of the doorway after him. The frosty air tore through the sweater, making me flinch. I mimicked Max’s footprints in the deep snow along the side of the house.
He stood in front of the snowman, which was reminiscent of a chiseled human form. It was crafted in Max’s likeness with locks of snowy strips cascading down the sculpture’s back. Detailed attention was spent to his full lips and narrow face. The oddest feature was the shape of a heart missing through his chest. Intricate details told me someone spent hours on the masterpiece.
“Who did it, Max?” I asked. “Do you have friends who play practical jokes?” When I looked down at the ground, there were no footprints leading to the snowman except for Max’s and mine. Someone had written in the snow, ‘Tick Tock, Max’ and left the stick propped against the snowman’s hand.
Max swallowed hard and looked at me. “Amelia, we need to talk.”
Sarah Jayne Carr is a novelist who can be found most evenings with a cup of tea in-hand and her imagination racing from plot to plot. When away from her work, part of her mind is constantly brainstorming her next story and she always has writing paraphernalia within reach.
She wrote stories as a child, but became more serious about her passion during her twenties. In her spare time, she likes to read, splash in mud puddles, smell bookstores and eat Honeycrisp apples. Yearly, she participates in NaNoWriMo and has mentored others through the program. Due to her dedication to National Novel Writing Month, she is part of an amazing writing group.
Born and raised in Washington State, Sarah still resides in the area. Her life is richly filled with her supportive, yet swashbuckling husband and their golden Nugget.
REVEALING HAMILTON is Sarah’s first full-length novel.
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