Cuddle Time
Christian Burch
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(Wicked Ink, Oct. 16, 2018)
The first in an all new thriller series for younger readers (ages 11 +) will have you tearing through the pages late into the night. From the author of Haunted, Dark Horizons, and Good Home Cookin', comes a frightening story that will make anyone who's had a teddy bear or stuffed animal shiver. Each entry in the series follows different characters and stories. Ryan's defender of his dreams, bed time pal, and all around protector is gone...Luckily for Ryan, his dad gets a replacement pronto and it seems like everything is back to normal and Ryan can continue to have a good night's rest... or so they thought. This stuffed animal is alive and on the hunt. The new teddy isn't so friendly and decides it wants to keep Ryan all to itself. While Ryan sleeps, the bear feeds on his life-force, slowly draining him away. As the days pass, Ryan seems to be tired all the time, irritable, pale, and not himself. No one around Ryan is safe, especially those that begin to suspect something isn't quite right. Can his parents and sister save him in time?Book II, "Careful, I Bite" will be coming out Spring of 2019 and focuses on a middle school boy who seemed to have won the jack pot when the most beautiful girl in the school asks him for a dance. Not too long after he starts to develop an unnatural thirst for blood, that proves extremely hard to fight.