Survival Ties (The Outbreak Chronicles Book 1)
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“What is this?” I asked him as he smoothed out the paper in front of us.
“A map of the area.” He told me as he glanced to where we could still see the tail of the flare.
“What are you doing?” Aaron asked as he joined us.
“That flare came from around this area.” Drew said pointing down to a spot on the map. Aaron, Drew, and I looked down at the map and back to where the light from the flare was disappearing.
“What do we do?” I asked.
“We’re going to go and find out who shot it off and see if we can help.” Drew answered as a second flare went up into the air in the same spot.
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Books in this series:
The Outbreak Chronicles, Book 1 —Survival Ties
The Outbreak Chronicles, Book 2 — Crisis Ties
The Outbreak Chronicles, Book 3 — Healing Ties
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Trisha lives in Notheren Arizona with her Husband and young daughter with their two wolf hybrids and two cats. She loves all kinds of music and loves hearing new bands. She enjoys a wide varity of different books, as well as hiking and being outdoors. With each book she completes, she feels the reality of her characters moving through their journeys into the world. To contact her you can email at trisha.leazier@gmail.com or go to her Author page www.facebook.com/trisha.leazier
The Outbreak Chronicles, Book Two Crisis Ties
© 2016 Trisha Leazier, Body Count Productions, Inc.
Coming June 2017
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The Outbreak Chronicles, Book Two Crisis Ties
Drew disappeared out of the room before anyone could say anything else. I watched as Aaron stood up with Sam, followed by Hunter and Micah. The silence remained as we all waited for Drew to return and tell us what was on his mind. It seemed we were waiting forever, when he finally returned with a guy we hadn’t seen yet following quickly behind him.
“Sorry for running off but I wanted someone’s opinion—who’s flown over this area for years—on those flares and the location.” Drew explained as he grabbed the map back out and showed the new guy where he thought the flares had shot up from.
“From what I saw over at the hanger I think you’re right on the location.” The hazel-green-eyed guy with the shaved head said.
“Who’s this?” Aaron asked as he nodded towards the guy with the map.
“This is Leo Wills; he’s the helicopter pilot for Paradis.” Drew answered.
“Copter seats seven people counting myself so I say a crew of 3 should go up with me and have a crew of 3 more waiting with radios in case we need help.” Leo directed as he looked over us, “Drew, I assume you are coming so how about the girl there and her buddy come with us?” Leo was pointing at Aaron and me.
“Sounds good to me.” Drew agreed, “Sam, Hunter, and Micah; I want you to be the crew with radios for us to call if we need help. Sam, get one of the trucks ready.”
We didn’t have time to say goodbye as we went after Leo, who was already on the move to the helicopter. Drew was right on his heels moving so fast both Aaron and I were almost running to keep up. Neither one of them looked back to make sure we were following. After a few sharp turns we came to a building that looked a lot like a giant garage. Leo led us right in through a door between the huge garage doors.
There was an electric green helicopter parked in the middle of the garage we found ourselves standing in. In dark blue letters ‘Paradis Roulette’ was scrawled across the side of the helicopter.
“How do you like my ride?” Leo asked us as he walked over and started doing some sort of walk around on the helicopter.
“No offense but I’ll be happy when we land back here and are done.” I told him.
“Not a flyer then, I take it?” Leo asked.
“No, not really.” I answered as he opened up a door and motioned us to start boarding.
“Well don’t you worry, with me in the pilot seat you will be safe as can be in the air.” Leo said as he held out his hand to help me climb into the helicopter.
I climbed in with Aaron right behind me and Drew following.
“We all need to put on the helmets; they have built in mouthpieces and headphones so we will be able to talk to each other over the noise.” Drew told us as he slipped on the helmet from the seat next to the pilot seat. Aaron and I mimicked what he did with a couple of the helmets that were in the seats behind Drew. Leo looked impressed when he climbed in and slipped his own helmet on. It looked like he was just flipping switches but suddenly there was all sorts of lights blinking and you could hear the propeller above us picking up speed.
“So quick question.” Aaron’s voice sounded in my ears.
“What’s up?” Leo asked.
“How do we get out of the garage?” Aaron asked.
“Door up above us that Drew designed for this copter.” Leo responded, “Now everyone buckle-up because here we go.”
The helicopter started lifting off the ground and it felt like we were in an elevator until I made the mistake of looking out the window. The way the dome was designed made it so the door Drew designed to get the helicopter out of the garage opened straight into open sky. We were seeing the dome shrinking below us as we gained altitude. Drew and Leo looked like kids in a candy store while Aaron looked like he was trapped on a rollercoaster from hell. He looked at me and his eyes were wide from what I could see of them.
“How long will it take to get to the location?’ Drew asked.
“Not long since we can just go in a straight line to where you think it is on that map.” Leo answered as Drew pulled out his map and started to search the ground below us for signs of people in trouble. It didn’t seem like much time had passed before Leo spotted something.
“Do you see that Drew?” He asked as he circled around.
“Yeah, looks like a truck that’s rolled and that looks like a boat still attached to its hitch.” Drew responded.