THE EXTRAORDINARY DAYS SERIES
by Polly Becks
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GENRE: Romance/Mystery/Thriller
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BLURB:
In
the late spring of 1991, a flood and fire of historic proportions tore through
the pretty resort town of Obergrande, New York, in the central region of the
Adirondack mountains.
The twin disasters
destroyed a large part of the east side of the town that bordered the Hudson
River and Lake Obergrande.
In the aftermath, a
new dam was built, and that damaged part of the town “drowned,” covered by the
new, larger lake.
During that terrible
flood, five kindergarten girls were trapped in their drowning school, huddled
together as the water rose higher, rescued just in the nick of time. The
nightmare bonded them, and three others like them, to each other for life.
These are their
stories.
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EXCERPT:
All excerpts are from the
3rd book in the series: Tuesday's Child: Full of Grace
In the blue light and wisp-thin clouds of this late June
morning, Donovan Farrell, a wide-shouldered man in a leather motorcycle jacket
and jeans tucked into heavy boots, came out of his motel room, his helmet in
one gloved hand, directions in the other, a string-banded rollpack across his back.
He stopped, absently admiring the color of the sunlight on
the clouds at the horizon, and took a deep drink of the morning air.
His hair, hanging long in dark brown waves that matched his
heavy, somewhat unkempt beard, caught the wind and danced around his head for a
moment.
Donovan, known as Van to the few people who knew him, set
his helmet down on the bike that was parked outside his room, a Yamaha FZ6 in
the same gleaming black as the full-face helmet, and stuck the paper on which
he had jotted down the directions inside it for the moment to keep it from
flying away in the breeze.
He drew his hair back in a hair tie so that it was out of
his face, retrieved the paper, then pulled the helmet on.
Scanning the directions again, Van made a mental note of the
route he planned to take, as he did each time he got on the bike.
He was avoiding the New York State Thruway, partly because
of the expense, partly because the eastward drive by way of Route 20 was more
scenic and offered more opportunities to stop, stretch, and eat over the course
of the day.
And partly because, unlike the Thruway, Route 20 was quiet
and mostly empty.
It added a couple of hours to his trip, but Van was not in a
hurry.
He had nothing but time now.
He looked at the destination, which he had underlined
several times upon writing it down.
Obergrande, New York.
And exhaled.
Then he got on the motorcycle, started it up, and headed
east.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Polly Becks
has been making her living writing for more than twenty years, as well as
working as an editor, curriculum developer, and teaching secondary-school
Spanish. She has more than 350 books to her credit, mostly educational
materials, as well as professionally published fiction in both the adult and YA
market in a variety of genres, plus more than 30 Children’s books. She is
excited about exploring the digital literature frontier and is honored to be
the launch series for GMLTJoseph, LLC. - See more at:
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