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    Discover Hope
    Discover Hope
    Discover Hope
    Ebook42 pages29 minutes

    Discover Hope

    By Chrissy Wissler

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    Nicole, a video game producer, shifts in the stiff-baked leather chair as her world crashes all around her. Her game, a sure bet, a money-maker, her chance for a greater and brighter future...

    Cancelled.

    And all of it, her fault.

    But fellow co-worker, Steve, tells another story and quite possibly, another future.

    "Discover Hope," a story about picking yourself up, finding your second chance, and maybe a new hope for the future. A story set in the heartwarming Romance Video Game series.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBlue Cedar Publishing
    Release dateApr 4, 2019
    ISBN9780463707791
    Discover Hope
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    Chrissy Wissler

    Chrissy’s short fiction has appeared in the anthologies: Fiction River: Risk-Takers, Fiction River Presents: Legacies, Fiction River Presents: Readers' Choice, Deep Magic, and When Dreams Come True (writing as Christen Anne Kelley). She writes fantasy and science fiction, as well as a softball, contemporary series for both romance and young adult (Little League Series and Home Run). Before turning to fiction, Chrissy also wrote many nonfiction articles for publications such as Montana Outdoors, Women in the Outdoors, and Jakes Magazine. In 2009, Inside Kung Fu magazine awarded her with their ‘Writer of the Year’ award. Follow her blog on being a parent-writer at Parents and Prose.

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      Book preview

      Discover Hope - Chrissy Wissler

      Discover Hope

      Discover Hope

      A Romance Video Game Story

      Chrissy Wissler

      Blue Cedar Publishing

      Contents

      Discover Hope

      Open your Heart. Make a Wish.

      Also by Chrissy Wissler

      Sneak Peak: Second Chance

      About the Author

      Discover Hope

      Ihope you can be… discreet."

      Nicole shifted in the stiff-backed leather chair, the cloth from her black slacks catching while her boss, the Creative Director and CEO of Orbit Games, the cold icicle himself, Alex Parker, in that perfectly pressed thousand dollar suit, remained unmoved.

      This, this couldn’t be happening.

      She licked her lips. Sir, I’m not sure I understand.

      What isn’t to understand?

      That Fire Storm had been a sure bet. That it was supposed to be a money-maker which Orbit itself and not some money-grabbing publisher had financed. That Alex had practically promised it’s success.

      She forced herself not to grab her turquoise, shell-beaded bracelet. To fidget. Not while Alex sat there.

      Waiting. Cool. Composed. Completely untouched by the impact what this news actually meant for his employees. For her team.

      It’s just that, with all those changes you wanted made to the gameplay, the map system, all those overtime hours the team put in… Her fingers snuck closer to her bracelet.

      Yes?

      The truth caught in her throat. Lodged there. Unable to escape. She’d watched families hurt by the long work demands Orbit had made on her team. And they’d all done it, all of them, with the promise that it’d be worth it.

      She ran a hand across her forehead.

      Somehow, she wasn’t sweating. Somehow, she was still breathing. Still in control. But not really.

      The truth, Alex said, is that all those long hours were a waste of the company’s money.

      Nicole shifted again. The squeeze-slide of leather sticking echoed in the darkened, unadorned yet perfectly polished office. From the man-sized glass windows overlooking Lake Washington and the further off glowing downtown Seattle skyline to Alex’s gleaming, imported wood desk she looked out of place.

      Felt out of place.

      And this news, this news made it even worse.

      Alex didn’t move an inch. Not even the slight crease or pull from his coal-colored suit as he, again, repeated: Your game failed.

      Failed.

      Her game.

      Now it was her turn not to move, not to even breathe. If she did she might do something she’d regret.

      Like cry.

      Or punch

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