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Sit down for a quick trip through the author's process of craft:

My goal was to steadily build tension as the events in Halgraeve came to a head. The reader gets a sense that bad things are going to happen but that they are not quite at the tipping point yet. Just when he or she really starts to feel invested, The Driver begins his story about the Night Drivers. The reason for telling the story is integral to the plot, but the story itself is not. Regardless, The Driver sets a hook for the reader but does not get a chance to finish his tale before the narrative whisks back to Halgraeve–the outer story.

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Lady in Flames by Ian Lewis:

Every town has dirty secrets. And some say the sun doesn’t shine on Halgraeve. All I know is there’s one secret that’s about to be let out, and when it is, this town’s going to burn like the sun.

Low-lit haunts...salt-stained roads...a cursed little town. The murdered soul known as the Driver crosses over to the living to find himself steeped in a seething brew of arson, mindless violence, imposters, revenge, lost causes, and second chances. Some motives are more pure than others. Some wills are stronger. And some wrongs won’t get righted on their own. The Driver skirts the fringes of the physical world waiting for the time that he will intervene and claim his own sense of justice.

A new short story collection from Ian Lewis featuring The Driver, the otherworldly figure introduced in The Camaro Murders.