Alex didn’t want to die, but he
just couldn’t take it anymore. Dwight’s pills seemed to promise escape… and
escape is exactly what he gets. He ends up in a world reminiscent of his
childhood Wonderland, but nothing is as it was in Alice’s day. The Outerlands
are a twisted version of his favorite story, with strange characters and
unnatural dangers. Before he can get used to his new home, it’s threatened by
an outside force. Will Alex ever find a place where he feels safe?Excerpt:
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eath
is rarely a choice and, when it is, it’s usually a final choice. After all, for
all that most people know, there are no choices after death. Alex certainly
thought this would be the case. And he would have been right. If.
If.
Such a small word – barely two letters – that
encompasses so much. So much uncertainty. So much dependency. So
much…possibility.
It was this very possibility that launched one
Alexander Carroll Lewis into a Realm of curiosity. This special journey hinged
on that two letter word – if. Even in the midst of all of the madness, he knew
that was the root of everything. He traced the ifs back through from the recent
to the past.
If he hadn’t swallowed the pills.
If he hadn’t bought the pills.
If he hadn’t fought back.
If he hadn’t met Jay.
If he hadn’t gone to that school.
If he hadn’t lived in that town.
If he hadn’t lived at all.
Strangely enough, or perhaps not strangely at
all, it was this last if that
prompted him toward the first if in
the first place. He saw the latter as a solution for the former. What he was
about to find out was that there was no solution to the last if because the last if wasn’t a problem that needed solving at all. Eventually, he
found his way to the problem and the solution, but that won’t happen until the
end of this story.
This is only the beginning.
Originally from Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, Jared fell in love with stories at a very young age. This love
led him to major in English and Theatre, a decision that brought him many
adventures, such as performing in Footloose, Cats, and West Side Story.
His first full novel, Rising Sign, was started backstage
during a production of South Pacific in Indiana. Five years later, his debut
novel was complete and he headed back to school for his Masters in Special
Education. By the time he graduated, he had written the following two books in
the trilogy, Ruling House and Returning Planet. He used his school
experiences as a base for his standalone novel, Let's Play It By Ear. His newest novels, The Outerlands and The Good
Witch are slated for release in 2015.
Jared currently lives in New York
City with his cats, Benedick and Beatrice. He works during the day as a high
school English teacher and theatre director at a Deaf school.
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