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The Game

Audiences 18 and older
Trigger Warnings: violence, sexual assault (not described in detail but on page), murder, sexual content, kidnapping, torture
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•             I woke up with a start, heaving and throwing up. I wiped my mouth, looked around me, and saw that I was in a gray room. The walls were covered in dirt and blood, and the floor had dried vomit on it. I pounded the ground and stood up, slamming my hands on the wall behind me; where the hell was I? Panic started to envelope me and I felt like I couldn’t breathe.
             “Where am I?” I heard a voice coming from across the room. I looked up quickly and squinted, wanting to see who was with me. I could not believe my eyes.
            “Kaia?” I asked. She looked at me with her one open eye.
            “Luca? What is going on?” She asked, looking around at the small room.
            “I have no idea.”
           “How the hell did we get here?” Kaia cried out.
            “I don’t know, but we are going to find a way out.”
  
  Kaia Devivo and Luca Hollister absolutely despise each other. Even being near each other causes them to argue. However, when they are kidnapped from a party by complete psychopaths, they’ll have to learn how to coexist. When the kidnapper forces them to do horrible acts, they have to choose to either do them or die. Will they get out, or will they die in the cells they’re held captive in?

The Game - Kindle edition by Vohasek, Liz. Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.

by Liz Vohasek

Audiences 18 and older
Trigger Warnings: death of a child (on page), extreme violence, suicide (on page), emotional abuse, gun violence, murder, sexual content, torture
Description from Amazon:
My duffle bag taunted me from the closet. Dad wasn’t home tonight, and Mom and Julianne were fast asleep. This had to happen now or never. Without thinking, I pulled the bag down off of the shelf and double checked it. I’d packed clothes, stolen $8,000 from Dad, and I’d taken Mimi’s old I.D. so I could pass as a 21-year-old. I then packed contacts, my glasses, snack bars, bottles of water, my phone charger, and an extra pair of shoes, putting my pocket knife in my back pocket. The bag was extremely heavy, but it had everything I needed to start a new life. A life filled with happiness, not abuse, one where my father couldn’t touch me. I opened my bedroom door and snuck outside, ready to start fresh.

Elena Rojas ran away from her mafia-run house ten years ago. She'd thought she had put her past behind her, but when her fiancée Collin requests to meet her family, Elena has to face returning home to a house of sorrow. Still living in fear because of her father, Elena bravely brings her fiancée to her childhood home, only to be confronted by her dad, who wishes her gone. Elena must figure out how to beat him in his sick games before she ends up dead, by the hands of her own father.


Told in both past and present perspectives, Elena's story unravels, showing just how terrifying going back home is.

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