Welcome to Misplacea

By Ross Peacock

Trula Bausch is 24, capable but caught in her past failings. She has a strange ability to stagger her reality in order to solve a problem, when she is desperate. The 'trick' worked well for her as a child, particularly when she needed to get out of tight spots. But the cost as an adult is increasingly painful recovery and emotional dislocation. Painful reality-tricking as a crutch to cheat the system has left her unemployed and addicted to OxyContin. Now out of money and cut-off from legal drug prescriptions, she faces a bleak future out of work, out of home and dependent on dangerous street drugs.

Trula discovers a possible solution to her problems when a fentanyl-laced street pill unexpectedly triggers her ability and throws her back in time just far enough to see the same Lotto7 number announced again on the evening news. It's the first time that she’s experienced an exact repeat of reality. She has a pack of the illicit pills. Could the same pills, taken right after the next draw announcement, put her back in time just far enough to run out and buy the winning ticket? The prospect of $millions to solve all her problems seems to make the dangerous gambit worth the risk. But Misplacea holds the doorway to many realities. She must choose the right one to win. The wrong choice will very likely kill her.

Now there is Alex. He is her first real lover and a guy she could spend her life with, who accepts her just as she is: a broke, pill junkie. He has a plan and a secret too. Step-by-step he can rescue her if she trusts him. Her gambit will look like a purposeless relapse to him and a rejection of all that he offers. She risks losing him in whatever reality she chooses.

Can more than one reality exist? Two paths each offer a different future for Trula. Or do they?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ross Peacock
• Release date: Aug 2, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005737016

Ross Peacock

Ross has been authoring fiction in both short stories and novels since 2016. He is a graduate of the Seneca Collge post-grad program in applied communications as well as a graduate of the Shulich School of Business, He taught applied communications and technology courses at Laurentian University, Toronto Metropolitan University and Georgian College. Prior to teaching, he led marketing research for leading companies in the technology sector.Ross lives in Haliburton Ontario Canada. He is the principal of Repzac Publishing, which is a private publishing house specializing in new Canadian urban fantasy fiction.

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