Into The Fog of Charon

by Mark Pennell

Overview

Eighteen-year-old Jimmy Black and his best friend Quincy Miller are the MVPs in a historic, small-town basketball game against the Lancers of Loganville in North Carolina. Their sights are set on winning the game and hanging out with friends before they head off to college in the fall. Danielle Davis and her fellow cheerleaders watch the clock tick down to the final point.
One minute they're sweating on the court, and the next, they're in a desolate world, helpless in a large-scale alien invasion. The only clues are an old CD, a newspaper article, and a mysterious letter. With the help of Kim Fox, the four friends have to think fast and work together to navigate their new reality. Will they be able to unravel the unbelievable events that took place in 1945 in time to save the world?
"So, let us not be blind to our differences—but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved. And if we cannot end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal"-John F. Kennedy

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798369245705
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	05/07/2023
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.68(d)

About the Author

This is Mark’s first novel, the inspiration for this particular book came to him in a dream that he had over a period of three nights back in 1986. But life has a way of taking you down other roads, such as marriage, kids in life in general. Therefore, the manuscript was placed in a box on the top self of a closet in forgotten about. Fast forward to May 2020… Lockdown for COVID-19. With time on his hands he started to search for something to do, remembering his manuscript all those years ago he started a search for the box that held his masterpiece, well in his mind anyway. Once he found the old composition notebook, he began to read the mere seventy-five pages. So, he was looking for something to do in he found it but a rewrite was necessary, keeping to the original story he worked on in added, removed, in added some more, off and on for a year and a half, until he was happy with the new manuscript. With the help of a dear friend who would help him with editing, he felt it was time to give it to the public.
Mark, now in his sixties, married in is the father and stepfather to seven wonderful adult children and grandfather to seven grandkids with the youngest who just turned one. Plus, a number of fur babies that always keeps him busy. Mark is also an avider reader of US history and the works of Edger Allen Poe, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Ann Rice; in from the morbid mind the drawings of Charles Addams
Mark enjoys volunteering in putting his talents to work, be it for the special effects for his church with make-up for the crucifixion of Christ for their yearly drama, to dressing up as Old St. Nick at Christmas to visit the elementary schools. Mark also sits on the Board of Education and the local Performing Arts Center.
Mark has started the next book in this trilogy of Charon, we are looking forward to seeing what is in store for Jim and Danielle, Quincy and Kim.