by Jo Ho
I made my way back onto the main street, and spotted a bus shelter on the other side of the road. It wasn’t great, but it might do. I just needed to check if it was water-tight —nothing worse than waking up to a mouthful of rain.
Expensive cars roared past, not in the least concerned by my bedraggled state. Car-jacking was low in this part of town, but these guys weren’t going to risk a higher insurance premium just to test out that statistic, especially for pungent moi. I wasn’t counting, but it’d been at least five days since my body had seen any water, and that was even before the dumpster dive. I waited for a break in the traffic.
“Woof.”
The sound came from behind. I took an involuntary gasp and spun around — but a bit too fast. Balance and co-ordination fled me as my foot slipped from the curb. I caught a brief glimpse of my furry best friend before I felt myself tumbling backwards into the sea of cars.
Time slowed to a crawl.
When you’re about to die, adrenaline pounds through your body, and details fly out at you in what can only be described as supersonic vision. Like Muttface’s eyes, which I only just noticed were an emerald green with gold flecks. And the see-through plastic tub he gripped in his mouth containing banana fritters, covered in sesame seeds that formed the initials BP.
While I was in slo-mo, the dog, conversely, seemed to be moving in super speed. In one quick motion, he dropped the fritters and lunged for my chest, snagging a mouthful of T-shirt. I hung there, suspended over the road, just inches away from my demise, anchored only by this animal’s teeth and a prayer that the cheap polyester fabric wouldn’t give out. A car horn blared to tell us to quit messing around. As if.
And then the dog pulled me to safety.
I sank to my knees, shaken, gasping for the breath I hadn’t known I was holding. I couldn’t believe it. I wasn’t dead. I was alive. The dog had saved me.
Muttface tapped his paw on the tub of fritters, which had landed unscathed on the sidewalk, and chuffed softly, like he was inordinately pleased with himself.
My jaw hit the floor.
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WANTED, Book 1 of The Chase Ryder Series
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BOOK 2 of The Chase Ryder Series
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About the Author
A self-taught screenwriter who learnt the craft when she locked herself in her room and binge watched studied her favorite genre movies and television shows, Jo’s writing life began in film and television, when she created the ground-breaking, critically acclaimed CBBC action fantasy television series, SPIRIT WARRIORS, which introduced leading actress, Jessica Henwick (GAME OF THRONES, STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKES, and the upcoming Marvel/Netflix show, IRON FIST) to the screen.
Granted the biggest budget ever given to a CBBC show at the time, it was nominated for Best Children’s Programme at the 2011 Broadcast Awards, with Jo herself, going on to win the Women in Film & Television’s, New Talent Award in 2010.
Since then, Jo has worked with some of the most acclaimed producers in the world, creating big budget projects with even bigger ideas, with several television shows and movies currently in development including supernatural horror, BLOODLINES, and family fantasy, SKETCH.
WANTED, is Jo’s first foray into novel writing. Next up, she will be working on book 2 and book 3 of THE CHASE RYDER SERIES, and WHAT DOESN’T KILL YOU, book 1 of the YA supernatural series, TWISTED, where we’ll be introduced to four outcast girls who discover they command some super dark powers.
A self-confessed geek and video gamer, and champion of female driven stories, Jo typically creates kick-ass female protagonists like the ones found in THE HUNGER GAMES, DIVERGENT, and the MAXIMUM RIDE series.
Jo lives in London and hopes one day to travel across America in a super kitted out, Zombie-apocalypse-ready RV, with her lovely fella, Matt, and three equally lovely kitties.
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