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Last Exit In New Jersey
New Jersey. You get in for free. When it’s time to leave, then you pay.
Solitary, contrary, sometimes troublesome just for the sake of being difficult, Hazel Moran isn’t quite what you’d expect to find at the wheel of an 80,000 lb. rig. But for 21 year old Hazel, a third generation trucker, there was never any question she’d take her place in the family business, transporting boats by highway. Raised aboard a schooner and riding shotgun beside her father in the cab of their old Kenworth, there’s not much on the water or road she can’t handle; it’s her people skills that need major work. But when her blue-haired cousin vanishes, along with their new Freightliner, Hazel finds herself the target of some unsavory characters looking for the missing truck and a shipment that never arrived. Faced with white trash, Born Agains, appliance salesmen, a wealthy stranger, and an unstable stalker, she learns the hard way who she can and can’t trust. And anyone getting too close to Hazel, no matter their motive, does so at risk of serious bodily injury. Armed with fishing gear, high voltage, and ingenuity, Hazel navigates by land and sea between a Delaware Bay ghost-town and metropolitan north Jersey, searching for answers, finding greed, betrayal, love, and loss in the last places she’d imagine. Pushed too far, with nowhere to turn, she sets in motion a twisted plan to uncover the truth, settle some scores, and if possible, not end up dead in the process.
No Wake Zone
Wake, verb. 1. to become roused from sleep, a tranquil or inactive state 2. to make aware of; alert. to become aware of something; to wake to the true situation. 3. to remain awake for some purpose; to keep watch or vigil. 4. a watch over the body of a deceased person before burial noun 1. the track of waves left by a ship or other object moving through the water. 2. the path or course of anything that has passed or preceded: The tornado left ruin in its wake.
In No Wake Zone, as Hazel regroups and Annabel tests her limits, Stevenson continues his quest for vengeance as Hammon's memories resurface, with dire consequences.
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