You’d swear the synopsis is from some other book entirely:
Three years ago Cort O’Leary was the pride of his precinct at NYPD. After he watched his partner and lover die one terrible night, he sought a quieter life in rural New England. He thought he could run from his past, but nightmares about his lover’s death have suddenly become more vivid. Worse, an evil entity – The Story Keeper – has used his sorrow as a conduit and intends to feed off Cort’s soul…
Good idea not to use your full name; it makes it harder for the attorneys to come after you. (Also: It’s a teen lesbian story.)
I don’t know what that combination of images and fonts says, but it doesn’t say “teen abduction thriller.”
It seems okay, if a bit underwhelming, until you read the Amazon description:
A luxury Alaskan vacation turns into horror for three couples, who find themselves captives on a remote island in Prince William Sound for a thirty million dollar ransom…
A dead pastor with a brand new two million dollar life insurance policy interrupts Eddie Rose’s romantic vacation in the central Mexican town of San Miguel de Allende. The small town of Booth, Mississippi, is shocked by the apparent murder of a prominent pastor late in a steaming hot summer. Was it murder? Was it suicide? Big Western Insurance wants to know and Eddie is their ace freelance investigator.
Totally not the book that goes with this cover.
