Ed & Eunice Vought "Time of Maturing" Best Friends series #4

Questions abound: what is this about (see the synopsis below)? Is this a YA thing(Yes!) What is the deal on this series? The deal here is that the Vought’s have co-written a full length series that revolves around the life of teens and they are trying to send a positive message with this: growing up is hard; it is difficult, and at times very awkward. No news there right? The news though is in the manner in which they tell it, let it unfold, and shed light on it, that is the difference maker right there. Their narratives are insightful and heartfelt; that is evident and that is what the makes the read, the read it is. One does not have to be a teen, have teens, or be around teens to enjoy this novel; all one needs to be able to do is enjoy a good read.

“Somewhere around midnight I must have dozed off but now I am completely awake. Did I hear something or is my imagination playing tricks on me? I have stayed here enough to know the night sounds the house makes, every house is different. There it is again, it sounds like someone at the back door. Not knocking, working the door knob or something like that. I get up and grab an aluminum baseball bat that is in the family room for some reason, I’m glad it is. I walk as quietly as I can into the kitchen staying close to the wall so I won’t be highlighted by the light in the family room. Every sense in my body is alive and I have a very sick feeling in the pit of my stomach. What if someone breaks in and gets past me, I’m still just a teenager and these may be men, mean vicious men. The mind has a tendency to overreact at times like this. I am almost right by the door now, there is definitely someone or more than one someone’s outside that door, I can hear voices. I definitely hear one tell the other. ‘The women are home, I saw them this morning, the old man isn’t, his old lady says he’s in Arizona.’ These guys are some nasty customers, they are not just interested in stealing, they want Mindy and her mom. If I have anything to say about it they will have to take them over my dead body. That sounds a bit dramatic but that’s the way I feel.

In the next few seconds all heck breaks loose, I am getting better I don’t even swear in times of stress now. They must have used a pry bar because the door breaks inward and the first guy is through into the kitchen in a step or two. He is followed by another one but I am not sure if there are more or not, can’t worry about that now.

Join Eddie, Mindy and the rest of their ever expanding group of friends in their most challenging experiences and adventures yet.”

 New from Trestle Press authors this week: Chantal Boudreau “Weighing Fate”, Mark Cooper “How I met Your Mother”, Darren Sant “A Good Day”, Mark Miller “Daniel’s Lot” & “Meant to Be”, Wenona Hulsey “Burden of Blood”, Joan Meijer “The Rescue”, Robert Ford “The Curse of The Translucent Monster”, Laurie Bowler “Fangs, Inc. The Tortured Revelations”, Michelle Vasquez “Second Hand Bookstore”, Ed & Eunice Vought “Best Friends #4” , Thad Brown, “Lights Out”, William Tooker,”Bad Angels”, April Pohren, “Dream Me To Death”, Angelique LaFontaine & Eddie Frantom,”Thirty -1 Reckless”’ John Reed “Winter Hill Exhumed”, Allan Leverone/Paul D. Brazill ” The Darke Affair”, Julia Madeleine “The Devil’s Music: Raised in Hell”, Paul D. Brazill “Brit Grit”, Molly Edwards “The Willow Spring Killer”.