{"product_id":"underlined-paperbacksisbn-9780593179741","title":"Underlined Paperbacks","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eA girl is sent against her will to a remote wilderness boot camp where things aren't what they seem in this riveting and twisty paperback thriller.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFROM THIS MOMENT ON, YOU'RE A BEAR CUB. YOU'LL LEARN RESPONSIBILITY AND RESPECT. HOW TO SURVIVE. IT'S EASIER IF YOU JUST ACCEPT IT.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDawn isn't a bad person--she's just made some bad choices: wrong guy, wrong friends, wrong everything. But she wasn't expecting her parents to pay a boatload of money to ship her off to OUT OF THE WILD, a wilderness boot camp with a bunch of other messed up kids to learn important \"life lessons.\" It's true that Dawn and the other cubs will learn a lot--but it's not what any of them expect. Because what happens in the woods isn't what their parents planned. Sometimes plans go very wrong. And this is one of those times. Suddenly Dawn is more scared than she's ever been in her life. And you will be too.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnderlined is a line of totally addictive romance, thriller, and horror paperback original titles coming to you fast and furious each month. Enjoy everything you want to read the way you want to read it.\u003cb\u003eOwen Laukkanen\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the Stevens and Windermere series, beginning with \u003ci\u003eThe Professionals\u003c\/i\u003e, which was nominated for the Anthony Award, Barry Award, \u003ci\u003eSpinetingler Magazine \u003c\/i\u003eBest Novel: New Voices Award, and the International Thriller Writers’ Thriller Award for best first novel. His follow-up, \u003ci\u003eCriminal Enterprise, \u003c\/i\u003ewas nominated for the ITW Thriller Award for best novel. A resident of Vancouver, British Columbia, he is now at work on the next book featuring Stevens and Windermere.\u003cp\u003e1. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of a messed-up girl and how her family paid people to send her into the wilderness with a bunch of other messed-up kids in hopes it would somehow make them less messed up.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a real thing that happens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt might even be an eventuality your parents have considered for you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut this is the story of what happens when things \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ego\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeet Dawn. Dawn is the aforementioned messed-up girl. She’ll be the protagonist and de facto audience surrogate for this little misadventure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDawn is seventeen years old and mostly normal. She lives in Sacramento with a drug dealer named Julian, who is roughly twice her age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a continued point of contention between Dawn and her mother, Wendy. Wendy would prefer that Dawn not live with a drug dealer. She’d prefer that Dawn, you know, go to school and not just get high all the time and sneak into clubs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe’d prefer that Dawn be at home, where Wendy and Dawn’s younger brother, Bryce, live with Dawn’s stepdad, Cam.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDawn loves her brother.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe mostly loves her mom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDawn does not love Cam. Dawn resents Cam and hates that her mother fell in love with him. Her father’s only been gone for two years, and it’s too soon to be talking replacements.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDawn can’t stand to be near Cam. It makes her feel like she’s betraying her dad. It drives her insane that nobody else sees it that way. That her mother could move on so quickly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat’s why she’s staying with Julian.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd that’s why she spends her days mostly wasted.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Cam\/Wendy\/Dawn thing has been an ongoing saga. You don’t need to know the gory details, but suffice it to say, it’s been a lot of screaming and hurt feelings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt’s been a lot of self-medicating and not going to class.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt’s been a lot of Julian.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCam and Wendy have been trying to get Dawn to come home. Go to school. Be high less. See less Julian. Be more normal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCam and Wendy have failed miserably so far.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Cam and Wendy have one more bullet to fire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt’s their last resort.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd it’s going to royally fuck up Dawn’s day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat it is, is a straight-up kidnapping.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCam and Wendy show up at Julian’s place at sunset. Dawn and Julian are on Julian’s couch, watching cartoons but not really, when Cam knocks on the door. Dawn is too high to get off the couch; she lets Julian answer, hears the door open, hears voices:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJulian, someone else, Julian again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen Julian’s back, scratching his head and not looking at Dawn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“It’s your stepdad,” Julian says. “He says if you don’t go talk to him, he’s calling the cops.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the way Cam’s face twitches when he sees her, Dawn knows she must look like shit. She hasn’t showered since whenever, her hair’s a disaster, she’s wearing one of Julian’s Lords of Gastown T-shirts like a dress.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“What do you want?” she asks her stepdad. Looks past him and sees Wendy standing by the minivan, arms folded across her chest, looking anywhere but at the house.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(Dawn briefly wonders where Bryce is, then decides she’s glad he isn’t here. She doesn’t love the thought of her little brother seeing her like this.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCam sets his jaw like he’s been rehearsing this moment. He probably has.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(He’s probably not a bad guy, Cam. I mean, it’s not his fault that Dawn’s dad is dead. Cam’s an accountant, and mostly harmless, and Dawn might actually like him if he were, you know, her teacher or something and not someone who acted like he was entitled to any authority over her whatsoever.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I need you to come with us, Dawn,” Cam says. “It’s time to go.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDawn rolls her eyes, like she always does when Cam starts down this road. “I’m not going anywhere with you, Cam,” she tells him. “And you can’t make me.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCam stares at her. Mouth opening and closing like whatever he rehearsed, it didn’t get this far.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen Julian shows up behind Dawn. “I think you should go,” he tells her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDawn spins, like WTF? Julian shrugs. Cam’s looking at Julian like he wants to punch him, but he won’t--\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(Julian’s twice his size).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCam just nods instead, like Listen to the man. “Nobody wants the police involved, Dawn,” he says.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCam has a point. Julian knows this.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDawn knows it, too.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf the police show up, they’ll find Julian’s stash of pills. They’ll find Julian, and they’ll find Dawn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJulian doesn’t want any part of this, obviously.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo Julian’s turned traitor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJulian’s practically shoving Dawn out the front door.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGo with your parents, Dawn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGTFO.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo Dawn doesn’t put up too much of a fuss. This has happened before. She’s thinking Cam and Wendy will pile her into that minivan and just take her home, like they always do.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe’s thinking this is just another bullshit power move by Cam to prove he’s cut out to be her father, and she’ll endure it for a couple of days on the absolute outside and then she’ll sneak off again and do what she wants.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd this time she’ll make sure Cam and Wendy can’t find her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is what Dawn is thinking.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt’s what she’s expecting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Dawn is wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCam takes her to the airport.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“There’s no fucking way this is legal.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the airplane seat beside Dawn, Wendy says nothing. She hasn’t said much the whole plane ride, won’t even answer Dawn’s questions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(Like, why are we on a plane?)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(Why isn’t Cam coming?)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(Why did you pack me a bag?)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe’s trying so hard to look tough, Dawn can tell. Play the authority figure, the mean mom, but Wendy isn’t cut out for that role. She’s too nice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut she’s trying to be tough, and it’s clearly taking work, and watching her, it kind of breaks Dawn’s heart a little bit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(Like, whatever is happening, you made her do this.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(You made her this way.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDawn would never admit it, but maybe that’s why she isn’t putting up more of a fuss. Maybe that’s why she didn’t go batshit and scream kidnapping when Cam dropped them off at the airport. Because for whatever reason, she didn’t.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe put on the shorts Wendy fished out of her overnight bag, watched Cam hug Wendy goodbye and drive off, and then she followed her mom into the airport and onto the plane and stared out the window and waited to land.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd now they’re at the Seattle airport, and it’s nighttime and there’s a guy standing at the baggage carousel holding a sign with Wendy’s name on it. He’s around forty, tanned, wearing a blue fleece jacket with the words out of the wild on it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe shakes Wendy’s hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe doesn’t shake Dawn’s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Come on,” he says. “I’m parked in the lot.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe fleece guy’s name is Steve. He has a white van with the same words as his jacket written on the side.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eout of the wild.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSteve throws Dawn’s bag in the back of the van. Then he turns back to Wendy. “This usually takes about two to three months,” he tells her. “Depending on the kid. You need a ride to your hotel?”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWendy shakes her head. Says something about a shuttle bus.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Okay.” Steve shakes her hand again. “We’ll be in touch.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDawn’s wondering if she’s still high or just half-asleep. Can’t process what’s happening. Then Wendy’s hugging her. 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