A DEVIL IN THE DUNES & TEACH AND REACH BY AUTHOR WENDY BYARD
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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.
'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 A 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.
The kids in school called me Weirdo.
Their daily cruelty and vicious words beat me down and crushed my spirit. I was hopeless for a while. But do I really care anymore? No, I don’t. That’s in the past, and everything I have endured throughout my life has brought me to this moment.
I see her up ahead.
Crouched behind tall dune grass, I massage the back of my thighs. My hamstrings are killing me, and my lower back is literally on fire. But it will all be worth it.
Just past the small dune in front of me and down the hill, Cadie McLeod is twirling around in the sand. She’s acting like nobody is watching her, because, of course, she doesn’t know that I am.
I’m watching you, Cadie.
Would she keep giggling and swaying around the fire if she knew I was here – just feet away? My eyes glued to her every move?
I’m actually trembling with excitement – sweating through my shirt. Up above, the midnight moon casts a hazy spotlight on the Lake Michigan beach. It allows me to study her every movement.
I can’t wait.
Retired college professor Wendy Byard spent twenty years teaching her students to write creatively and get published.
Now it's her turn.
Byard has penned A Devil in the Dunest, an engrossing kidnap suspense novel set on the charming - and often deadly - coast of Lake Michigan.
Byard is the published author of Teach and Reach for Classroom Miracles: Lessons on Teaching with Love . She was a college writing instructor for over twenty years; a magazine writer for On the Town magazine; a journalist with articles published in various Michigan newspapers; a former high school English teacher; a previous advertising and marketing account executive; and is now the owner of a graphic design and website design business: Wordgirl Marketing (wordgirlmarketing.com).
Byard earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism and history and a master’s degree in English Education from Michigan State University.
She resides in Metamora, Michigan.
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