Christine D. Shuck
Fueled by homemade coffee ice cream, a lifelong love of words, and armed with strong female (and male) characters I cross genres like the Ghostbusters crossed the streams in pursuit of the question.
"What is the question?" you ask.
The question is simple. It asks, "What would you do, if..."
What would you do if you were fifteen years old and the world as you knew it fell apart? Would you run? Would you fight? Would you survive? - Meet Jess and her brother Chris in War's End.
What would you do if you had a chance to live your life over? Not just once, but twice? - Meet Dean Edmonds in Fate's Highway
What would you do if everyone you loved was lost to a terrible virus and you faced the real possibility of the extinction of the human race in the da
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