After Dark - Chicago Fire: Urban Fantasy Anthologies, #2

By Mark Lee Ryan

Can Jeremy Patten use his After Dark skills to solve a longstanding mystery that has haunted several families?

Jeremy discovers he has a unique power. When others sleep Jeremy is able to enter their dreams. In the second book in this series, ‘Chicago Fire’ Jeremy uses his power to help solve the great Chicago Fire mystery that has haunted families in Chicago for years. Why would three local well to do business men suddenly disappear and were they really motivated to simply receive the insurance monies and leave the windy city?

There are several suspects and some scared people. But it is people like Julie Nancarrow who just wants closure. She wants to understand why her father Thomas Stevens really decided to leave without a trace. 

This short read will leave you guessing until the end as Jeremy visits those involved around the time of the Chicago Fire. 

This book is the follow up book in the series . After Dark 'The Story Begins.'

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mark Lee Ryan
• Release date: Jul 4, 2016
• ISBN: 9781386007449

Mark Lee Ryan

Mark Lee Ryan lives in Brisbane Australia is married, and has two adult children. A relatively new science -fiction writer, Mark has enjoyed considerable success with his debut book After Dark ‘The Story Begins’ reaching #1 on the Best Seller list on debut. The series of four books has now been converted into a box set and a new series The Osidium has started. Having long held a desire to be an author Mark is pleased with his success from the novellas and is planning to write a longer novel which hopefully will be released in 2017. With a background in finance and banking Mark has enjoyed a number of Senior Management positions in banking over a twenty six year career prior to establishing his own diverse Financial Services business in 2003, which he continues to manage day to day when not plotting his next book.

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After Dark

Chicago Fire

By

Mark Lee Ryan

Copyright

Copyright © 2016 by Mark Lee Ryan

Cover and internal design © Mark Lee Ryan

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual locals, businesses, event or persons living or dead is entirely coincidental.

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After Dark ‘The Story Begins’ the debut book by Mark Lee Ryan was a Number 1 Best Seller shortly after release. Other books in this series are:-

After Dark  ‘The Story Begins’

After Dark  ‘The Mystery of Highland Manor’

After Dark  ‘Murder on the Adriatic’

Also in early planning stage is a full length After Dark novel. 

New Series

The Osidium ‘Reactivated’

Table of Contents

Contents

After Dark

Chicago Fire

By

Mark Lee Ryan

Copyright

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Preface

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Bonus Chapter

Thank You

About The Author

Preface

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Jeremy Patten discovers that he has a very unusual and unique skill. When Jeremy falls asleep he enters a world, a dream world where those around him are like him – asleep, but the stark difference is that Jeremy is conscious of the world he enters and unlike everyone else is able to bring realism to the dream world he has entered.

When Jeremy enters a dream he is able to play out whatever role he wants almost as if he is carrying out his day time life by two; one life by day and one life at night, where in the latter, his body and mind transcends to a new world. Jeremy starts to understand the power he possesses, and in turn learns to manipulate his powers to bring justice and correction in people’s life.

‘Chicago Fire’, is the second book in the After Dark series and follows on from, ‘The Story Begins’. Chicago Fire continues the romance between the main character Jeremy Patten and Tara Shield, and sees Jeremy uncover and help solve a number of interwoven mysteries, many years after the great Chicago fire. Utilising his unique skill the story twists and turns until Jeremy eventually helps bring justice to those haunted by the tragedy.

Chapter 1

Jeremy doesn’t know why he is wandering down Chancery Lane, but having cleared his thoughts he has been summoned and faces the red front door of No. 23. Before he has time to think about knocking, the door opens and he is greeted with, ‘Hello Jeremy. Thank you for meeting me.’ An upbeat and broadly smiling Julie Nancarrow introduces herself and shakes Jeremy’s hand before inviting him into her large apartment, located in the upper market area of Bridgeport.

‘Hello Julie. It’s nice to meet you. I