Cleaning Up

By Rita Schulz

Peter swallows hard, this time his parents are going it. They are going to cut off his fingernails. Then they’ll keep on cutting until he submits or they kill him.

He needs to run and does, into the dark, dirty streets of downtown Vancouver. He meets Jill a girl who decides to believe and helps him.

Peter knows his father is head of the underground gangs and needs to get to the police as soon as possible.

Now it’s a race, will Peter and Jill be silenced by his father and the downtown gangs or will he get to the police in time?

• Language: English
• Publisher: 53rd Street Publishing
• Release date: Oct 21, 2011
• ISBN: 9781465800718

Rita Schulz

Rita lives on the Sunshine Coast in British Columbia with, Russ, her husband, who is also a fiction writer. She has written for years and is an alumnus of the Oregon Writers Network, and the Greater Vancouver Chapter of the Romance Writers of America. Her most recently published stories are Fire in Their Hearts with R.G. Hart from Champagne books, and Ladies of the Jolly Roger and Tales of the Fantastic, from 53rd Street Publishing. Please visit her website at http://www.ritacrossley.com to view her other works.