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Exposed
"Great book."
"Didn't want to put it down."
"An intense read..."
There’s a price to pay for loyalty
When everyone else wants to bend the rules
The men of the tribe have made their home in the empty buildings at the border, far from the demands and ruthless laws of those who control the city. Their only guidance is a doctrine that keeps them grounded, free from emotional disruption and at peace. At least, that was how it was meant to be…
With their founder gone, the responsibility of the tribe falls to Jacob. Fiercely loyal to his predecessor he promises to care for its members, their values and the life they’ve created. But Jacob is not a natural leader, and when new deadly threats dog the city’s backstreets, some of the men are open to flexing the doctrine to serve the fallout – even if it means defying their new mentor.
As tensions ripple through the group, Jacob feels the clutches of the city grip tighter than ever before. Not only in the dangers it might inflict at any moment, but in the temptations it offers, ones he’d thought he had left behind. Fearing he is losing control of the tribe entrusted to him, Jacob is pushed toward despair and the person he used to be…
And when his dark past comes back to haunt him, he seizes it with both hands.
Exposed is the second book in the Hidden Sanctuary US urban dystopia series
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"Didn't want to put it down."
"An intense read..."
There’s a price to pay for loyalty
When everyone else wants to bend the rules
The men of the tribe have made their home in the empty buildings at the border, far from the demands and ruthless laws of those who control the city. Their only guidance is a doctrine that keeps them grounded, free from emotional disruption and at peace. At least, that was how it was meant to be…
With their founder gone, the responsibility of the tribe falls to Jacob. Fiercely loyal to his predecessor he promises to care for its members, their values and the life they’ve created. But Jacob is not a natural leader, and when new deadly threats dog the city’s backstreets, some of the men are open to flexing the doctrine to serve the fallout – even if it means defying their new mentor.
As tensions ripple through the group, Jacob feels the clutches of the city grip tighter than ever before. Not only in the dangers it might inflict at any moment, but in the temptations it offers, ones he’d thought he had left behind. Fearing he is losing control of the tribe entrusted to him, Jacob is pushed toward despair and the person he used to be…
And when his dark past comes back to haunt him, he seizes it with both hands.
Exposed is the second book in the Hidden Sanctuary US urban dystopia series
.
346 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 11, 2019
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T.L. Dyer
18 books7 followersT.L. Dyer is a writer of character-driven fiction, including crime, police procedural and dystopia. Her stories and characters delve, discover and disrupt, always teetering precariously on that thin line between darkness and light, right and wrong, good and bad.
She is particularly keen on exploring those individuals who set themselves apart from the norm or who stray down a different path. Taking her lead from the characters themselves, she trails behind scribbling notes and trying to keep up as they take her on a breathless, heart-thumping and thought-provoking journey, with no knowing where she might end up.
T.L. lives in South Wales, UK, with her family and eternally bedraggled Yorkshire Terrier.
Join T.L.'s Reading Tribe by downloading your FREE CRIME BOOK at www.TLDyer.com, exclusive to subscribers. And be sure to follow her on BookBub to learn about new releases, www.bookbub.com/authors/t-l-dyer
She is particularly keen on exploring those individuals who set themselves apart from the norm or who stray down a different path. Taking her lead from the characters themselves, she trails behind scribbling notes and trying to keep up as they take her on a breathless, heart-thumping and thought-provoking journey, with no knowing where she might end up.
T.L. lives in South Wales, UK, with her family and eternally bedraggled Yorkshire Terrier.
Join T.L.'s Reading Tribe by downloading your FREE CRIME BOOK at www.TLDyer.com, exclusive to subscribers. And be sure to follow her on BookBub to learn about new releases, www.bookbub.com/authors/t-l-dyer
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October 1, 2020
Urban dystopian
4.50 stars - as this story picks up from book 1, it is read from Jacob and Alex’s point of view as Sada went away with her daughter at the end of book 1. Although Sada is never far from both these men’s thoughts.
Jacob now becomes the reluctant leader of the tribe since his mentor’s Michael passes away in book 1 at the hands of Rafe. The doctrine is always challenged, in different ways. On a scouting run for new members, Jacob and Scott comes across Kayleigh, who is rescued to the tribe by Scott’s almost guilt tripping way. In another incident, 2 former members come back but one died at the scene due to poisoned darts. All this took a toll on Jacob and due to his fear of everything, his past, his finding where is brother lives, the voices in his head of his father, Michael and Sada, his nightmares. All this becomes all to much to cope and Rafe gives him something to ease off the edge and this snowballs to wanting more.
From Alex’s point of view, he loses his job as a journalist. Meets Alice at the coffee shop where she works and refers him a job at the local bar. Here he learns of the gangs and Simon. His paranoia gets too much and circumstances lead him and Alice to the tribe.
During Jacob’s drug injection, Sada and Scott comes to his aid and slowly take him back to the tribe. Because of Jacob’s fear, shame and the knowledge that she knows everything about his past he wasn’t very welcoming to her appearance back into his life.
So when she decides to leave with Alex and Alice, her husband comes bursting in (at this stage we do not know how the husband found her).
Again this is an intense read with these characters literally carrying their world on their shoulders. Secondary characters give the story depth and width. Not much is resolved between Jacob and Sada but at least she has given him some hope to move on and not place so much on self blame.
4.50 stars - as this story picks up from book 1, it is read from Jacob and Alex’s point of view as Sada went away with her daughter at the end of book 1. Although Sada is never far from both these men’s thoughts.
Jacob now becomes the reluctant leader of the tribe since his mentor’s Michael passes away in book 1 at the hands of Rafe. The doctrine is always challenged, in different ways. On a scouting run for new members, Jacob and Scott comes across Kayleigh, who is rescued to the tribe by Scott’s almost guilt tripping way. In another incident, 2 former members come back but one died at the scene due to poisoned darts. All this took a toll on Jacob and due to his fear of everything, his past, his finding where is brother lives, the voices in his head of his father, Michael and Sada, his nightmares. All this becomes all to much to cope and Rafe gives him something to ease off the edge and this snowballs to wanting more.
From Alex’s point of view, he loses his job as a journalist. Meets Alice at the coffee shop where she works and refers him a job at the local bar. Here he learns of the gangs and Simon. His paranoia gets too much and circumstances lead him and Alice to the tribe.
During Jacob’s drug injection, Sada and Scott comes to his aid and slowly take him back to the tribe. Because of Jacob’s fear, shame and the knowledge that she knows everything about his past he wasn’t very welcoming to her appearance back into his life.
So when she decides to leave with Alex and Alice, her husband comes bursting in (at this stage we do not know how the husband found her).
Again this is an intense read with these characters literally carrying their world on their shoulders. Secondary characters give the story depth and width. Not much is resolved between Jacob and Sada but at least she has given him some hope to move on and not place so much on self blame.
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