The People in the Mirror

Culture shock! That’s what Nikki experiences when her father is transferred from Laguna Beach to Seattle. Gazing up in the gray drizzle at the gargoyles on the apartment building that is her new home, she tells herself that life as she knows it is over, that boredom is all she can hope to look forward to.
But that was before she saw the people in the mirror – and before she met the gorgeous young man next door....
________From THE PEOPLE IN THE MIRROR:“Watch your footing.” Mitch turned on a flashlight and pointed it at the ground. I followed him when, suddenly, he disappeared into the ground. I backed away.
“Come on,” he urged.
“Where are you?”
“There’s steps.” He pointed the flashlight up steps where he’d disappeared. “Do you see them?”
“Just barely. Why are there steps into the earth?” I made a great leap of trust as I cautiously took the first step down. It seemed fairly solid. I took the next three steps, then turned around and looked up. A few stars peeked through the buttermilk clouds that nearly covered the night sky. I took another step down, and the sky disappeared behind the ceiling of earth.
“Where is this?” I looked around – what I could make out in the glow of Mitch's flashlight were walls, a sidewalk, an ancient billboard.
“It’s a part of Seattle’s underground city. It’s cut off from the section that’s on the tour.”
Mitch trained the flashlight on the billboard. “Millie’s Millinery,” it said over a faint sepia drawing of a Victorian woman wearing a huge, billowing hat. Curiously, she appeared to be looking right up the stairs at the night stars.
“She’s beautiful,” I whispered.
“Isn’t she?” We stood reverently contemplating Miss Millie from a bygone era for a few moments, then Mitch took my hand and we silently headed down the sidewalk ....
________Read The People in the Mirror today to discover who the people in the mirror are ... and, more importantly, who is the incredibly attractive boy next door?