by: Nancy G. West
Genre: Teen/YA Thriller/Suspense
Release Date: April 15, 2025
Publisher: Fire and Ice Young Adult Books
High school senior Decker Savage, burdened by his baby brother’s death and dreading his parents’ impending divorce, sees his mother with a scruffy stranger and follows him to a dark house. He hears shouts upstairs, a man hits the floor, and the culprit escapes. Decker follows the victim’s ambulance. Through their mutual love of baseball, they become friends; but the elderly man can’t remember who attacked him, and Decker fears the assailant will return. His grades crater, his relationships go south, his baseball skills are erratic, and by entering the man’s house, he broke the law.
He suffers anonymous attacks and receives threatening notes. If he doesn’t forget the man and the house, he, his family, and his friend will be the next victims. Will Decker be able to uncover the culprit’s identify, solve the mystery, and stop the attacks?
AGGIE MUNDEEN GRUMBLES ABOUT NANCY WEST’S UPSTART CHARACTER, DECKER SAVAGE
My author, Nancy West, is making noises about the novel she wrote, RISKY PURSUIT, featuring some 18-year-old kid. Instead of writing about me! I was her favorite protagonist. She’d written only one book when I popped into her head and became the star. I stayed in her head for four books! She even started a spinoff series, Aggie Mundeen Lake Mystery #2, featuring me, with a lead-in novella, The Plunge, https://amzn.to/4jrTbnk). This book reveals how Sam and I survived a catastrophe that totally altered our lives. The second lake mystery is one-quarter written. Why didn’t she continue writing it?
Instead, she lost the plot and started musing about some upstart juvenile. Actually, Decker Savage is almost 19, a new adult. I was dealing with serious problems by age 18, but that’s history, and we need not go into it.
What can Decker possibly know? He’s just an ordinary American kid – there’s nothing special about him. He loves to play baseball—he made varsity as a junior, but that’s not so rare. He does have problems: his baby brother died at age three when Decker was 7 or 8, and Decker still misses him. He has a secret about what happened that he’s never told anybody.
His mom and dad have their own views of what happened to their baby boy (in their POV’s). They keep secrets, too. Plus, they are about to divorce. Unfortunately, that’s not unusual. But for Decker, family is everything.
How can he hold the rest of his family together? It’s going to be doubly hard considering what he got himself into. I admit the kid has integrity, and he acts to protect his mother. But he still breaks the law. Now, some maniac is after him, threatening him and his family with anonymous notes if he doesn’t do what the creep says. Decker has never been the confrontational type. His grades and relationships go south, and he’s clueless about what to do.
If he does what the mystery man says, he and his family will be ruined. His dream for a college baseball scholarship will be kaput. If he doesn’t do what the man says, the culprit promises to fracture what’s left of his family and bankrupt his parents. He’s already managed to attack Decker without being seen, and Decker expects the attacks to get worse.
Can he dredge up enough courage to find this evil man and confront him? Can he save himself and the people he loves?
The book deals with loss, grief, divorce, resourcefulness, courage, and maturity unrelated to age. So I guess there’s something to it. I’ll have to wait and see.
Then maybe Nancy can get back on track. She must miss me.
It’s hard to be patient….
Aggie
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Dear Kim, Thank you for posting Aggie Mundeen’s grumblings about my new character Decker Savage. Now that Aggie got this off her chest, maybe she can appreciate Decker. I love them both. Nancy G. West
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for the post. It's so much better than I was expecting. I really like the idea of Aggie telling me/us about Decker. I think this was a brilliant approach.
DeleteThank you, Kim. My pleasure to be on your site.
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