I’m an international, multiple award-winning author with a passion for the voices in my head. As a singer, songwriter, independent filmmaker and improv teacher and performer, my life has always been about creating and sharing what I create with others. Now that my dream to write for a living is a reality, with over a hundred titles in happy publication and no end in sight, I live in beautiful Prince Edward Island, Canada, with my giant cats, pug overlord and overlady and my Gypsy Vanner gelding, Fynn.

When a colony ship is attacked by an unknown force and sent crashing into a settlement that has suffered the same fate, eight teenagers, the only ones left behind, have to work together to resurrect an ancient ark ship so they can pursue the aliens who kidnapped their parents.

Horizon

Sammel didn't need Minnesota's excuses. He may have denied it, but he knew the truth. He only lied because it was habit, years of trying to do good and screwing up and being so afraid of the consequences, of being judged. He learned to lie in a panic-stricken gamble to save himself from confrontation.


But Sammel knew the truth. Knew he had been avoiding the bomb, unwilling to go too close, feeling the twinge in his side deeper and more painful the closer he came to the device, just like with the alien. He resisted it, wanting to get closer despite the ache, for some reason, not knowing why, but needing to touch it, to connect the link between it and how he felt.


When Archer arrived and Minnesota was distracted, it was finally time to take action. Before he could stop himself, he stepped up and pressed his fingertips against the pitted metal.


Chapter 35: Sammel