T.L. Costa the author of the teen suspense thriller "Playing Tyler" will be at A Good Book Cafe from 1 P.M. to 3 P.M. Saturday August 17th. Come meet her. Buy a book and get it signed!
When is a game not a game?
Tyler MacCandless can’t focus,
even when he takes his medication. He can’t focus on school, on his
future, on a book, on much of anything other than taking care of his
older brother, Brandon, who’s in rehab for heroin abuse… again.
Tyler’s
dad is dead and his mom has mentally checked out. The only person he
can really count on is his Civilian Air Patrol Mentor, Rick. The one
thing in life it seems he doesn’t suck at is playing video games and,
well, thats probably not going to get him into college.
Just when
it seems like his future is on a collision course with a life sentence
at McDonald’s, Rick asks him to test a video game. If his score’s high
enough, it could earn him a place in flight school and win him the
future he was certain that he could never have. And when he falls in
love with the game’s designer, the legendary gamer Ani, Tyler thinks his
life might finally be turning around.
That is, until Brandon
goes MIA from rehab and Tyler and Ani discover that the game is more
than it seems. Now Tyler will have to figure out what’s really going on
in time to save his brother… and prevent his own future from going down
in flames.
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