Sidetracks

With SIDETRACKS, Ms. Connelly takes her new hero and heroine back to the other side. Seriously injured in an apparent bathroom accident, the successful businesswoman, Hannah Sebastian, is rescued by a delivery driver, Peyton Staley, who has just arrived at her home to deliver flowers. A burglar assaults Peyton in order to ransack Hannah's home office and shoots them both just before escaping into the morning fog. Hannah and Peyton meet on a train on the other side of reality where they travel to essential moments in their lives, learning how they became the people they are, and then choosing the most crucial point in their adult lives where they could have taken a different path. This choice sets them each on a Sidetrack to live the life that might have been. In the real world, Attorney Lynn Hargrove and Detective James O'Reilly play their own dangerous game, piecing together the clues of the crime that forced Hannah and Peyton to take their strange odyssey and placed their lives in jeopardy. Lynn uncovers the greed infested family secrets that drive Hannah's psychotic brother to extremes. Detective O'Riley tracks down the one link, which can explain Payton's self-destructive decline and plant the seeds for his redemption. SIDETRACKS explores treachery and deceit from the corporate boardroom to the most dangerous and deadly rivalry of all: one's own family. A fun and fast paced read that makes the reader wonder how life might have been lived differently, for better or for worse.Connelly, Valerie is the author of 'Sidetracks', published 2004 under ISBN 9780974334820 and ISBN 0974334820.