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.

The blue joy is calling... but can Fresco survive it?

"Do you know what happened to you?" Joey's voice broke a little. Fresco shook his head. The kid nodded, like it was no big surprise." Yeah, me either. No one seems to. We just have normal lives, you know? Then suddenly you wake up with this thing eating into you," he swallowed hard, "and that's it. The rest is Wasteland."

Seventeen-year-old Fresco Conte is an ordinary All-American kid from an upper middle-class family. He plays football. His girlfriend is a cheerleader. Life is good. Until unexplained things, scary things, start to take him over. Like surviving an accident that should have killed him. Or hearing the thoughts of the people around him whether he wants to or not.
 
When the men in the dark blue coveralls come for him, Fresco is forced into addiction to the blue joy known as Wasteland and set free on the street, with no answers and only his hunger to keep him company.

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Fresco didn't make it far. He was halfway up the stairs when he ran right into Parker. The look on his face must have told her something because the shock of crashing into him faded to concern.


Fresco fought with the push and pull of his emotions, but she caught more than he wanted her to.


"Medley," Fresco said. "She has a new treatment to try."


Parker made an unhappy face. "Who volunteered?"


Her reaction flashed immediate fury. Her golden eyes flared fire as she balled her hands into fists and glared at him.


"How dare you?" It came out of her like the snarl of a cornered animal.


Fresco was taken aback. He expected resistance, but her pure rage overwhelmed him.


"Parker..." He reached out for her. She swayed away, almost backing into Chad who came to a stop behind her.


"He's your brother," she said. "Your brother, Fresco."


Chapter 25: New Treatment