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The Lock
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Ongoing, First published Nov 04, 2018
Lena Gibson lives an unremarkable life as a barista at an unassuming coffee shop in downtown Seattle.  Her biggest problems are working back-to-back closing and opening shifts, and trying to forget about her ex-boyfriend. But when she witnesses a man seemingly fall to his death outside her shop one night, she's suddenly thrust into a world of danger, intrigue and literal monsters.

Gabriel Rinehart is a vagabond straddling the line between two worlds, making ends meet by procuring artifacts from one world and selling them in the other. After stumbling upon what looks like a huge score, he finds himself instead chasing after a legendary artifact that could be unfathomably dangerous in the wrong hands.

Two people. Two worlds. Two stories. When their paths cross, they'll find themselves running down the clock to save both their worlds from unspeakable dangers.
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#1 in hidden world, Jan. 28-Feb. 4, 2019
#2 in another dimension, March 27-April 5, 2019
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Trying to update every other Monday as my day job allows. Is a work in progress and any feedback is much appreciated. If you like what you read, please remember to vote!

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Emily Rose Hart was just an ordinary college student, balancing her dead-end convenience store job with an exhausting online degree-until a tear in reality appeared in her tiny apartment. On the other side? Adam, a young man from another universe-a world eerily similar yet completely different from her own. As they begin to exchange knowledge, culture, and secrets from their respective worlds, their curiosity turns into something deeper. But crossing dimensions is dangerous, and the more they learn about each other's realities, the more they realize that some forces may not want them to meet. Two worlds. Two lives. One impossible connection. How far would you go to uncover the truth of the multiverse?