Wayside: A Serial Novel
Description: In the Fall of 2024, a long-awaited property auction takes place in North Carolina – the first state in the U.S. to implement a mask ban. Heads turn when an unassuming stranger in an N95 arrives just in time to place the highest bid on the YOLO amusement park campus, now bankrupt from a series of accidental deaths on the property.
New owner Ben Santos is an unlikely billionaire known for redistributing his wealth into social justice and greater good ventures. Alongside his friend and colleague, Josina Hussein, Ben moves forward with plans to convert the shuttered amusement park into a public health sanctuary community for the Covid-Conscious. The two swiftly begin renovations of the property and recruit a team of experts to serve as the newly formed community’s council.
It's two years into the future when Ben is interviewed on a nationally televised talk show. The segment goes viral, quickly putting Wayside, North Carolina, on the map as ‘a gated community where people still mask.’ Suddenly, the residents of Wayside are distracted by a series of strange events, visitors with questionable motives, and chaos erupting in the lives of their loved ones outside of the gates. As Wayside’s leaders shepherd the community through both change and crisis, they struggle to remain a united front.
And when feelings deepen beyond friendship for Ben and Josina, each must confront defining traumas from their pasts to better understand what brought them to Wayside, and to each other.
Love and loyalties will be tested when disaster strikes at Wayside, threatening the future of the entire community.
Will Wayside find its way forward?
This is a work of fiction. Unless otherwise indicated, all the names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents in this book are either the product of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.
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