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Retreads

Steve Hobbs. Hatchet Mountain, $14.99 mass market (304p) ISBN 978-0-9993177-0-9

Adventurers trapped in the unknown, unfriendly parallel universe known as the Hole must find their way back to Earth in this action-packed journey between two worlds. Business owner Sam and his friend and bodyguard, Oscar, cross through a fissure in spacetime and get trapped in the Hole, where time goes by much faster. As they search for a way home, they encounter helpful and harmful humans, dangerous creatures, and resurrected people called retreads. Hobbs (New Hope) ends each chapter on a cliff-hanger as he cleverly switches back and forth between Sam and Oscar’s perilous travels and the story of Meg, a retread who’s adjusting to her new life centuries after her death. She’s sure her true love is still alive, even though they were parted 200 years before. Fans of love everlasting combined with treacherous and fascinating fights for survival will be completely captivated by Hobbs’s twisty narrative. (BookLife)