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Leap Second
Leap Second
Leap Second
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Leap Second

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The camp is destroyed, thousands of acres burned to the ground, and all but one person is accounted for.

When Tommen wakes up in a forest of ash, he makes a startling discovery—well, more startling than being cold, along, injured, infected, and concussed. He's invisible and incorporeal. Somehow, in the chaos of the fire, he was thrown into the Land In Between, from which no one has ever returned. Worse, Time does not work in the Land In Between, meaning he is also powerless to heal himself or escape.

With no way to communicate with the corporeal world, Tommen must find an exit from within the dimension. But there is more to this fabled hell than meets the eye, and time travel is only the beginning. When he meets the self-proclaimed mistress and curator of the Land In Between, she agrees to teach him the way to escape, but only if he agrees to take her with him.

Time is short as Tommen's infections worsen, and his dad is not the only one waiting for him on the other side.

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Release dateJan 21, 2023
ISBN9781953113122
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Brooke Shaffer

Brooke Shaffer was born and raised in a small town in Michigan with one blinking light and a stop sign that's more of a suggestion. After dropping out of college in 2013, she married her husband Adam in 2014 and they moved out to an even smaller town that doesn't even have a stop sign, where they started a farm that continues to this day. Her favorite animal has been and always will be cats, of which she currently has five. Other hobbies include video games, construction work and tinkering, traveling, martial arts, and eating.

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