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It must be Tuesday.
A house of her own with a white picket fence, complete with a loving partner, Anne Perrin finally has the life of her dreams тАФ including the job she always wanted and a caring family to share it all with.
But every Eden has its PandoraтАЩs Box. AnneтАЩs personal heaven is marred by a malevolent presence in her head who, if given a choice, would use her to usher in a dark age, ending humanity as she knows it. The only thing holding it at bay is an unpredictable computer implant in her chest that seems to have its own agenda.
Two unexpected visitors turn AnneтАЩs delicate world upside down in completely different ways тАФ one better than she could have ever hoped, one catastrophically terrible тАФ pitting Anne in a nightmare battle against the very people she holds dearest: her family.
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Ryan Southwick decided to dabble at writing late in life, and quickly became obsessed with the craft. He grew up in Pennsylvania and moved to a farming town on CaliforniaтАЩs central coast during elementary school, but it was in junior high school where he had his first taste of storytelling with a small role playing group and couldnтАЩt get enough.
In addition to half a lifetime in the software development industry, making everything from 3-D games to mission-critical business applications to help cure cancer, he was also a Radiation Therapist for many years. His technical experience, medical skills, and lifelong fascination for science fiction became the ingredients for his book series, "The Z-Tech Chronicles", which combines elements of each into a fantastic contemporary tale of super-science, fantasy, and adventure, based in his Bay Area stomping grounds. RyanтАЩs related short story тАЬOnce Upon a NightwalkerтАЭ was published in the Corporate Catharsis anthology, available from Paper Angel Press.
You can find out more about Ryan Southwick at his website, Ryan Southwick, Author and his Facebook page.
