Until the Sun Falls
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Last published Fri, Jan 25, 2019
"I watched the late afternoon sunlight filter through the the cracks in the shutters that blocked the windows. It illuminated the dust mites, turning them to glitter and giving them life. They spun and twirled elegantly in the air. I liked to think I would do the same if I were lucky enough to be in full view of the sun."
Having spent her entire life hiding from the sun, Jackie Bennett is all too familiar with the darkness. Her parents keep her behind shuttered windows under the premise of safety while her sister roams free, told only that direct exposure to sunlight could kill her. Trapped by both her parents' rules and her fears, Jackie's greatest hope is for a future at a college out of state, far away from her secluded hometown in the mountains of Montana. But with the unexpected arrival of an outsider comes a tidal wave of lies and truths, revealing to her that there is much more to the world, and to herself, than she ever imagined.
Mikah Jameson has never had a normal life, and it's the one thing he wants most. He wants to have a future of his own choosing, not the one that has been set before him. He wants to return to his childhood home, the most peaceful place in existence. He wants his world to not revolve around a nameless and faceless girl. But upon meeting her he is disarmed by her innocence, and he realizes that the true danger to both their lives, and the lives of all, is closing in.
Written from the alternating perspectives of Jackie and Mikah.
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