Make Believe

When Brinn Addam's mother passed away, the fifteen-year old girl said goodbye to her imaginary friends. Two years later her best friend begins receiving messages from Brinn's mother. The imaginary friends return—and they aren't pleased.

Brinn can bring make-believe characters to life. It's an ability her uncle, Neal Stauch, possessed as well. The little boy died accidentally three and a half decades before, but the world he created carried on. It's a dying land populated with troubled characters desperately searching for a new creator—a modern-day keeper with the same incredible genes capable to start their world over again.

From Neal's forgotten world comes a rag-tag bunch of washed up figures a generation out of time—rusted robots consumed with guilt, disillusioned super-heroes too far gone and far too fat to fit their spandex costumes, a homicidal lawman out of the Old West, and a Bible-quoting scientist abandoned in a distant galaxy. They ask for her help, and Brinn begrudgingly agrees, aided by her own band of imaginary twenty-first century creations—a sword-wielding barbarian woman, a sex-starved wizard boy, and his vampire girlfriend.

But Neal's imaginary world is populated with other survivors. They have changed even more drastically. And they want what the little boy had—what his present-day niece still has—and they'll kill to get it.

Make Believe is intended for a younger audience, but adults will enjoy it as well. It is a coming of age story blended with horror, science fiction, and fantasy, set in a post-apocalyptic world.