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Books in this
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The Outbreak
Chronicles, Book 1 —Survival Ties

The Outbreak
Chronicles, Book 2 — Crisis Ties

The Outbreak
Chronicles, Book 3 — Healing Ties

About the Author

Trisha
lives in Notheren Arizona with her Husband and young daughter with their two wolf
hybrids and two cats. She loves all kinds of music and loves hearing new bands.
She enjoys a wide varity of different books, as well as hiking and being
outdoors. With each book she completes, she feels the reality of her characters
moving through their journeys into the world. To contact her you can email at
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2016 Trisha Leazier, Body Count Productions, Inc.

Coming
June 2017

Enjoy
the following excerpt from:

The
Outbreak Chronicles, Book Two Crisis Ties

Drew
disappeared out of the room before anyone could say anything else. I watched as
Aaron stood up with Sam, followed by Hunter and Micah. The silence remained as
we all waited for Drew to return and tell us what was on his mind. It seemed we
were waiting forever, when he finally returned with a guy we hadn’t seen yet
following quickly behind him.

“Sorry for running off but I
wanted someone’s opinion—who’s flown over this area for years—on those flares
and the location.” Drew explained as he grabbed the map back out and showed the
new guy where he thought the flares had shot up from.

“From what I saw over at the
hanger I think you’re right on the location.” The hazel-green-eyed guy with the
shaved head said.

“Who’s this?” Aaron asked as he
nodded towards the guy with the map.

“This is Leo Wills; he’s the
helicopter pilot for Paradis.” Drew answered.

“Copter seats seven people
counting myself so I say a crew of 3 should go up with me and have a crew of 3
more waiting with radios in case we need help.” Leo directed as he looked over
us, “Drew, I assume you are coming so how about the girl there and her buddy
come with us?” Leo was pointing at Aaron and me.

“Sounds good to me.” Drew
agreed, “Sam, Hunter, and Micah; I want you to be the crew with radios for us
to call if we need help. Sam, get one of the trucks ready.”

We didn’t have time to say goodbye as
we went after Leo, who was already on the move to the helicopter. Drew was
right on his heels moving so fast both Aaron and I were almost running to keep
up. Neither one of them looked back to make sure we were following. After a few
sharp turns we came to a building that looked a lot like a giant garage. Leo
led us right in through a door between the huge garage doors.

There was an electric green
helicopter parked in the middle of the garage we found ourselves standing in.
In dark blue letters ‘Paradis Roulette’ was scrawled across the side of the
helicopter.

“How do you like my ride?” Leo
asked us as he walked over and started doing some sort of walk around on the
helicopter.

“No offense but I’ll be happy
when we land back here and are done.” I told him.

“Not a flyer then, I take it?”
Leo asked.

“No, not really.” I answered as
he opened up a door and motioned us to start boarding.

“Well don’t you worry, with me
in the pilot seat you will be safe as can be in the air.” Leo said as he held
out his hand to help me climb into the helicopter.

I climbed in with Aaron right
behind me and Drew following.

“We all need to put on the
helmets; they have built in mouthpieces and headphones so we will be able to
talk to each other over the noise.” Drew told us as he slipped on the helmet
from the seat next to the pilot seat. Aaron and I mimicked what he did with a
couple of the helmets that were in the seats behind Drew. Leo looked impressed
when he climbed in and slipped his own helmet on. It looked like he was just
flipping switches but suddenly there was all sorts of lights blinking and you
could hear the propeller above us picking up speed.

“So quick question.” Aaron’s
voice sounded in my ears.

“What’s up?” Leo asked.

“How do we get out of the
garage?” Aaron asked.

“Door up above us that Drew
designed for this copter.” Leo responded, “Now everyone buckle-up because here
we go.”

The helicopter started lifting
off the ground and it felt like we were in an elevator until I made the mistake
of looking out the window. The way the dome was designed made it so the door
Drew designed to get the helicopter out of the garage opened straight into open
sky. We were seeing the dome shrinking below us as we gained altitude. Drew and
Leo looked like kids in a candy store while Aaron looked like he was trapped on
a rollercoaster from hell. He looked at me and his eyes were wide from what I
could see of them.

“How long will it take to get
to the location?’ Drew asked.

“Not long since we can just go
in a straight line to where you think it is on that map.” Leo answered as Drew
pulled out his map and started to search the ground below us for signs of
people in trouble. It didn’t seem like much time had passed before Leo spotted
something.

“Do you see that Drew?” He
asked as he circled around.

“Yeah, looks like a truck
that’s rolled and that looks like a boat still attached to its hitch.” Drew
responded.