Chapter 1Nathan Reed’s first week on the new shift couldn’t be called bad, but he needed to call it something. Different? Sure. He’d go there. An entire collection of tiny differences that when totaled? They made for a huge, uncomfortable change. He hated change. It was a sure sign his life had fallen into a mind-numbing rut.
Which wasn’t hard to do when said life consisted of nothing but his shifts here at the convenience store, a max load of classes, his on-campus job at the computer lab, and—surprise—more studying because he also took classes online to make sure he graduated and was employed in a life-sustaining field before his brother finished high school. Money was tight, and even with Nathan’s outrageous amount of student loan debt, his parents couldn’t afford two kids in college.
