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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Diamond City Trilogy

Fresco spun on Medley, furious, when she pulled up in front of the safe house and stopped the car.


"What the hell are you doing?" He would go alone. Fine. He was halfway out of the car when she called after him.


She knew exactly the right thing to say. It drove a spike of fear and guilt between his shoulders. So much so, he saw clearly what he needed to do in spite of his fear of going it alone.


"They do," he said. "Thanks for the reminder." He sighed deeply. "I have to protect them. This means things have to change. I can't have someone I don't trust knowing this much about us."


She didn't speak, just clutched at the steering wheel.


Fresco went on. "Maybe it's not fair of me. Maybe I'm being an idiot. But you betrayed us, Medley. You lied. And in my world, that means you don't get a say in what I do anymore. In what any of us do. So, for now, we go our own way."


Chapter 52: Betrayed