HushWood: an isolated-station murder mystery
Nine masks. Seven confessions. One murderer who is still alive.
October 1945. Deep in the Canadian backwoods, Elsie Vautour follows a message recorded in the voice of her dead brother, Luc, to Hushwood-an isolated radio station buried beneath snow, machinery and years of silence.
When a storm destroys the only road out, Elsie and the other survivors become trapped inside Luc's unfinished confession machine. Empty masked figures move between the trees on hidden cables. Stolen voices emerge from sealed radios. Every carefully staged scene forces another buried secret into the open-and leaves another body behind.
But a dead machine cannot change its plans.
Someone living is controlling Hushwood.
To survive the night, Elsie must separate Luc's original design from the murders being committed in his name. Before midnight, she must expose the truth, stop a national broadcast framing her for the killings and confront the man hiding behind Hushwood's final mask.
Told through cinematic scenes, striking sound effects and graphic-novel-style storytelling, HUSHWOOD is a historical murder mystery filled with mechanical terror, wartime secrets and a chilling question:
Can a dead man build a murder-and can a living killer escape inside it?
And eventually Luka is no longer simply caught inside the system.
He becomes part of keeping it alive.
Years later, Koa creates his own impossible athletic story.
Rather than copying his father, he becomes an elite professional quarterback and lacrosse star, winning three football championships and two professional lacrosse titles before his twenty-fifth birthday.
Five championships in six seasons.
Then Koa loses everything.
His parents are killed in a plane crash.
Months later, a catastrophic highway accident ends his playing career.
Forced to rebuild his life, Koa finds an unexpected second career as a sports analyst.
Then a locked fireproof case from his father's estate arrives.
Inside is a black binder.
Medical documents.
Payments.
Testing schedules.
Private clinic records.
And an eleven-page handwritten confession from Luka:
I loved the games.
I cheated to keep playing them.
Koa's childhood hero suddenly becomes the biggest story in sports.
But the binder contains one more folder.
OTHERS.
More athletes.
More records.
More secrets.
Now Koa must decide whether protecting his father's name is more important than telling the truth-and whether exposing Luka means destroying him or finally allowing the world to see the complete man behind the legend.
From Tuvalu to Scotland, Iowa, Chicago and Denver, The Two-Sport Lie is a sweeping generational sports saga about ambition, championships, family, grief, identity, cheating, redemption and the dangerous line between chasing greatness and losing yourself trying to keep it.
This complete edition contains all four novels:
Book One - The Boy Who Played Everything
Book Two - King of Two Fields
Book Three - Son of the Legend
Book Four - The Two-Sport Lie
The championships happened.
The records happened.
The cheating happened.
The love happened.
And the whole story belongs together.
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