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THIS TIME YOU LOSE - A WINNER
What would you do if street thugs invaded your home? What if you’re a daycare provider, caring for a dozen children at the time? Lisa Kaamp, a most unlikely heroine, faces just such a nightmare in This Time You Lose, the suspense driven story of one woman’s struggle to survive when she and the children she cares for become victims of a home invasion gone terribly wrong.
The premise for this Top-Ten novel was the brainstorm of Michigan author, Chris Stralyn. “The idea was sparked several years ago when a neighboring community was plagued with a series of home invasions, and I wondered what would happen if one of these invasions occurred in a childcare home. A woman home alone, caring for up to a dozen children in a deserted, middle-class neighborhood made the perfect target for one of these invasions – and thus my story was born.”
In This Time You Lose, Lisa Kaamp operates a small childcare business out of her home in Nogeksum, Michigan. Highly respected and known for going the extra mile for her daycare kids, she thinks she’s handled every daycare emergency possible. But nothing prepares her for the horror she now faces.
Lisa finds herself bound and gagged, four strange men in her home, and the daycare children held hostage in the next room. Terrorized by her captors as the authorities work to meet the ransom deadline, she tries negotiating with the men for the release of the children, but soon realizes they have no intention of letting anyone go. With the deadline approaching, Lisa must do the unimaginable to protect the children and get everyone out alive.
An intense thriller, This Time You Lose was named a finalist in the TNBW Strongest Start Novel Competition in 2008. Four months later it earned the distinction of being a TNBW Readers Choice Top Ten Novel, and has remained on the Top Ten list ever since. It is available in print and eBook formats thru the author’s website www.thistimeyoulose.com , on Amazon.com, smashwords.com, and at most local bookstores.
Paperback: 294 pages eBook: all formats
Published: October 2011 Published: November 2011
ISBN-13: 978-1466375130 ISBN: 978-1-4661-7669-0
See reader reviews at www.thistimeyoulose.com/reader-reviews.html
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