The Invitee

By Beverly Blackman

What do you do when you receive an invitation from an alien? Simple, ignore it until they won’t let you ignore it anymore. Braden and his brother Cade were trying to lead a normal life in their hill country home in Texas. They had helped their grandpa out on his ranch further north from them with three alien encounters—first when the aliens arrived at Christmas holidays (The Invader), once in the following spring (The Insider), and once last summer (The Intruder). Now school was in fall session. Football season had begun, and the boys wanted nothing more than to get back to their routines. Earth and Xeracik had made peaceful agreements, and in spite of constant human errors, the intergalactic relationship was going well. The shocking situation that developed this time, however, was that the error was not caused by humans. There was a civil war on Xeracik, with one side not having peaceful intentions toward Earth! The large historic oak tree on Grandpa’s ranch was being used as the portal between the planets. What is going to happen to it? Fortunately for the boys, their brother Ryan is a secret agent for interplanetary interactions. Read what happens as once again the boys are drawn into an alien encounter, the fourth one in less than a year!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Page Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Apr 20, 2017
• ISBN: 9781635689112

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The

invitee

Beverly Blackman-Mounce

Copyright © 2017 Beverly Blackman-Mounce

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First Edition

PAGE PUBLISHING, INC.

New York, NY

First originally published by Page Publishing, Inc. 2017

ISBN 978-1-63568-910-5 (Paperback)

ISBN 978-1-63568-911-2 (Digital)

Printed in the United States of America

Chapter 1

The Invitation

Braden held the envelope in his hands. The neon lettering started to glow as he walked around his bedroom, getting ready for school. Last night his mom had put his mail in his room, but Braden didn’t get around to looking at it until this morning.

What the? Braden said out loud as he noticed the glowing getting brighter and brighter. I don’t have time for this, he thought. So he threw it into his backpack and went running into the kitchen for a quick bite to eat. As he ran to his car with his brother Cade following close behind, Cade asked, Why is your backpack glowing?

What the? Braden said again as both boys jumped into the car, and Braden threw his backpack into the back seat. We’re going to be late to school if I open that envelope now.

What envelope? asked Cade.

The one I threw into my backpack. I probably should have opened it last night, but it wasn’t glowing then. God help us if it has anything to do with our three encounters this past year.

The boys immediately went deep into thought as they drove down 306 and around the lake to school. In July, they had witnessed the third of the alien involvements that had started on their grandpa’s land just last Christmas. Both of them had read much about possible life forms on other habitable planets out of this solar system. However, they would not have believed in aliens if they had not have been there. On their grandpa’s land, some aliens from the planet Xeracik had taken refuge. As a result, an alliance had been formed with Earth and Xeracik.

Please, please, don’t let this envelope have anything to do with Xeracik, thought Braden. Football was going so good. Braden was on the high school varsity team, playing both offensive and defensive, and Cade was quarterback on the junior high varsity team. August practices were over, and classes and afternoon practices had just begun. The team was predicted to have a winning season.

Cade said, We can’t do anything else today until we know what’s in that envelope. Remember, we are kind of like friends to the aliens. They might be trying to contact us, and the envelope and your backpack will probably get really weird before the day is over if you don’t open it.

It’s just going to get complicated, replied Braden. We’ve got to contact Ryan if it really is from Xeracik. Ryan was their older brother who had graduated from the university and went to work right away for a top-secret government department at the Pentagon. The family could not know exactly what his job was, and they could only visit Ryan at certain times of the year when he was between assignments. At first it was fun to think about how special their big brother was. At the end of this twenty-first century, many things had happened that needed people to be involved in careers that could protect the planet. Germ warfare by terrorists had been annihilated, and now there seemed to be other kinds of threats, not the least of which was unidentified objects in the atmosphere. There were government labs all over the seven continents. The one closest to Grandpa was in Waco, Texas.

The first encounter was last Christmas. Grandpa had called all his grandsons to come and help him figure out something that was happening on his ranch in Norse, Texas. It was something that he didn’t understand. Since it was about time for Christmas vacation, all the cousins came, even Ryan. Ryan mysteriously was assigned to this case due to the nature of the alien arrival. Then just as things seemed to get back to normal for Grandpa’s ranch and for all the cousins back at their homes outside New Braunfels, and Victoria, the unsuspected return of an evil human whom the Xeracikeans had abducted to Xeracik, caused much chaos on Grandpa’s ranch. The cousins and one of the grandsons of Grandpa’s friend were a key part of this adventure. The alliance with Earth and Xeracik had been endangered, and because it was spring break at school, all the boys came to Grandpa’s aid. The third and latest encounter involved a greedy neighbor rancher / business tycoon who found out, using his advanced drones, how he