After The Applause
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Book #2 of The Last Encore series
Thalia Rahman had spent a year trying to accept that Michael Jackson was gone.
Then, at one in the morning, he walks back into her life.
Again.
Apparently, Michael Jackson has a habit of coming back from the dead.
His return should feel like a miracle.
Instead, it opens the door to everything they still don't understand.
Because Project Encore didn't end in Finland. As Thalia and the others begin piecing together what remains, they discover that Michael wasn't the only person caught in its experiments.
There were other facilities.
Other subjects.
Other lives quietly destroyed.
And one of them may be connected to Thalia more closely than she ever imagined.
Before long, Thalia, Michael, Lily, Josh, and a still stressed Chris Tucker are crossing borders, chasing fragments of information, poking around places they absolutely shouldn't be, and discovering just how far Encore was willing to go.
The problem?
They are somehow even less prepared for this than they were the first time.
Between underground facilities, missing subjects, mysterious drawings, terrible disguises, international investigations, and several questionable escape plans, their search becomes far more personal than any of them expected.
Funny, emotional, mysterious, and occasionally unhinged, this story explores healing, identity, friendship, found family, and what happens when someone you already grieved somehow comes home.
Because Encore didn't only leave secrets behind.
It left survivors.
And one of them might just be Thalia's brother.
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