DEVIL IN THE DUNES & TEACH AND REACH BY AUTHOR WENDY BYARD
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'DYING IS THE BEST REVENGE'
One evening at midnight on a dark Lake Michigan beach, a man peers through binoculars, intently observing a carefree young woman enjoying a bonfire with classmates. Knowing her patterns, minutes later as Cadie McLeod leaves the party and walks into the desolate dunes, ‘The Weirdo’ chokes, drugs, and drags the limp 18-year-old to his hidden truck. As a storm rolls in across the Great Lake, the man drives Cadie to a remote location where he imprisons the unconscious woman in an old root cellar built into a hillside.
The night selected for Cadie’s abduction is not random. Six years ago, on the very night that Cadie is abducted, her parents, Thomas and Aileen, were run down in grisly fashion as they walked hand in hand across a deserted coastal highway. Their killer was never captured, and everyone assumed it was a random drunk driver. However, the truth is far more evil and horrifying. The Weirdo is finalizing his revenge plan that began with the murder of Thomas and Aileen and will end with the murder of their only daughter.
If the highly-intelligent Cadie is going to live and solve the mystery of her parents’ murder, she must escape the unusual prison by her own cunning. Meanwhile, the investigation into her abduction leads police in many directions. At the tale’s end, a fight-to-the death takes place aboard the mini yacht Best Revenge in a raging Lake Michigan storm. The villain and his reasons for murder are revealed - hate-fueled reasons spanning decades that no one could have predicted.
The dark, mysterious, and suspenseful kidnap thriller Devil in the Dunes is an addictive, plot-driven novel. Readers will be fully immersed in this dark tale, quickly turning page after page to discover why Thomas and Aileen were murdered and what happens to their only child.
Hidden behind tufts of dune grass, the deep, dark waters of Lake Michigan just feet away, I watch. Past the tall, thick grasses and down the other side of the dune, Cadie McLeod is twirling in the cool sand. She’s acting like nobody is watching her, because, of course, she doesn’t know that I am. Would she keep giggling and swaying happily around the fire if she knew I was here – just feet away?
I’m actually trembling with excitement. It’s midnight in Harbor Cove. Up above, a red moon casts a hazy spotlight on the Lake Michigan beach. It allows me to study her every movement. I am transfixed; in the soft light, the popular young woman is more captivating than ever.
Dancing in her flowing yellow sundress beside the crackling, dancing bonfire, she smiles brightly at her good friends – and eager eighteen-year-olds in expensive swim trunks who hope they'll get lucky tonight.
Like all men: fools.
A sudden gust of wind catches the young woman’s long crimson hair, and it lifts upward, causing her and a friend to laugh and stumble in the sand. The winds are cooling, picking up. The smell of earthy water fills my nostrils as the strengthening waves claw at the nighttime beach. I observe Cadie touch the gold necklace around her slender neck, the smooth neck my fingers soon will be choking.
She blissfully unaware. Just a lovely girl on an idyllic beach enjoying her end-of-school celebration who’s completely at ease – well, maybe not completely. Her parents were murdered (but that’s another story and not my problem).
After Cadie is snatched from the Lake Michigan dunes on the day
her parents were killed six years ago,
the 18-year-old must escape her abductor
if she's going to live and solve
the mystery of their grisly deaths -
murders for reasons
no one could imagine.
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