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Christy Award winnerThree strangers each encounter the same mysterious storm and awake the next day to find that everyone else has vanished Theres Conner Hayden a successful but unscrupulous trial lawyer who has forsaken his family for his career Helen Krause a middle-aged model struggling to come to grips with her fading beauty and Mitch Kent an enterprising young mechanic unable to escape a past that still haunts him Afraid and desperate for answers their paths eventually cross and they discover they are being watched Elusive and obscured in shadows the xCobserversxD are apparently forcing them to relive vivid hallucinations of events from their past They discover a mute homeless boy in tattered clothing and believe he may hold the key to the mystery but the xCobserversxD soon become aggressive and the four are forced to flee When the boy disappears the four decide to head from Chicago to Washington DC in search of answersxand more survivors Winner of the operation first novel contest Vanish is a nonstop suspense thriller in the vein of Ted Dekker.
About the Author
JUMP IN. HANG ON.
Tom is the highly imaginative Christy Award-winning author of "Vanish", "Valley of the Shadow", "Beckon", "The Way Back", and the novella "Recollection" from the "7 Hours" anthology. His unique brand of suspense thrillers will grab you from the first page and won't let go until the last.
Tom's fascination with the weird, the creepy and the unknown began at a very early age when he was introduced to a bizarre 19th century German story book called "Der Struwwelpeter". The book was a collection of nightmarish morality tales by a German physician who obviously had too much time on his hands and no children of his own. The morbid nursery rhymes included the frightful "Daumenlutscher" (Thumbsucker) , a disturbing yarn about a young boy who was warned that if he continued to suck his thumbs, the demented local tailor would chop them off with his sewing shears. You can guess the story's gruesome ending has scared many a child out of surreptitiously savoring their opposable digits over the years. Other tales warned against playing with matches and being overly messy. Needless to say Tom never played with matches, generally kept his room clean and to this day retains the use of both his thumbs.
But the psychological damage was already done, and Tom's warped imagination turned him to writing his own creepy stories at a rather young age. Alas, no publishers were brave enough to bring his stories to print, so Tom would not realize his life-long dream of becoming a published author until the ripe old age of 42. Today, Tom is happily married with six children of his own... who, oddly enough, never sucked their thumbs.
