It's All Fun and Games

It's All Fun and Games (Available for Pre-Order on inkshares)

Book Description:

When six high school friends spend a weekend Live Action Role Playing they discover that the game world is both real and very, very deadly.

Fifteen year-old Alison Duggan finally gives in and joins her best friend TJ’s regular gaming group on a weekend of adventure that he promises “will be fuuunnnn.” Not long after the adventure begins, however, the friends find themselves transported from Earth to a world filled with both magic and danger. Suddenly, what Alison expected to be a relaxing weekend being geeky turns into a fight for survival against brigands, kobolds, and other nasty characters as the group tries to finish their mission…or at least get back home.

It's All Fun and Games is the first in a series of Young Adult novels that follow Alison and her friends as they adventure through the game world.

Prologue

“Run! NOW!” TJ shouted, yanking at Alison’s sleeve. Her eyes were focused on the ground, where their friend lay, twitching slightly. An arrow shaft stuck out of his chest. Her first thought was that it was all part of the game – this was some elaborate way of pranking the newbies on their first outing. If so, it wasn’t very funny.

But no, there was no way that arrow was fake. The noise it had made when it struck. The blood that was rapidly spreading across his clothes. The raspy way he was breathing and the saliva slowly trickling from between his lips. Alison felt another yank on her shoulder and TJ shouted, “Leave him for now!” She shrugged off his grasp, reaching down to try to drag her injured friend by the collar. After only a few moments she gave up, however, recognizing the futility of the effort.

A sudden force struck her in the shoulder and spun her around. Dazedly, she looked for whoever had hit her with a bat and was surprised to see no one standing nearby. Instead, she found a second arrow stuck in the wall, still quivering with spent energy. She reached up to her shoulder and felt a dent in the metal of her breastplate. A quick look revealed that the archer in the woods had drawn a third arrow and was fitting it to his bow, a determined look on his face. With a cry of anguish and one last look at her fallen friend, she turned and fled after TJ and the others.
 

It's All Fun and Games (Available for Pre-Order on inkshares)