by Mark Packard<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Speculative Fiction \/ Fantasy \/ Science Fiction<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Publisher: Bluestreak Publishing<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Page Count: 317 pages<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Publication Date: August 21, 2023<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Billy Worster was a na\u00efve teenager ill-prepared for the gruesome realities of war. The sole survivor of a deadly massacre in a Vietnamese jungle, he avoided certain death only because he ran away when the shooting started. Riddled with guilt, he comes home to a dusty Texas farm with post-traumatic stress disorder and the crazy notion that he can fly in and out of parallel worlds.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n As Billy struggles with addiction and questions his sanity, he is arrested on a drug charge and ends up in the courtroom of Judge Madeline Johnston, a bitter old judge tormented by a dark secret surrounding her father\u2019s death. She callously tosses Billy into prison, but when a greedy executor files a lawsuit to steal his inherited land, Billy is hauled back to her courtroom in chains, where a stunning twist of fate launches them into the sky on an odyssey of discovery and healing.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Spanning forty years from the jungles of Vietnam through infinite, parallel worlds, Rip the Sky<\/em> examines how the power of forgiveness can lead us toward a better life, no matter how many worlds we may live in.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Purchase on Amazon!<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Book on Goodreads<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Website<\/a> \u25c6 Amazon<\/a> \u25c6 Goodreads<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n LinkedIn<\/a> \u25c6 Facebook<\/a> \u25c6 BookBub<\/a> <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Giveaway ended October 13, 2023.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Click the blogs for direct links to book reviews, special features, and spotlights!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n On blog tour September 18-October 13, 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1046,863,813,830,812,936],"class_list":["post-3152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-blogtour","tag-lonestarbookblogtours","tag-lone-star-literary-life","tag-lonestarliterarycom","tag-texas-author","tag-texasbook"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.lonestarliterary.com\/sites\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/files\/field\/image\/cover_hi_res_rip_the_sky.png\")
ABOUT THE BOOK:<\/strong> After a shocking courtroom tragedy, a disturbed Vietnam veteran and the vindictive judge who sent him to prison become an unlikely pair of time travelers in a chaotic multiverse. The fallen angel who rescues them wants to guide them to a radiant new life. But first they must return to the scene of a ghastly crime. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.lonestarliterary.com\/sites\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/files\/field\/image\/author_photo_packard_phot_cred_adair.jpg\")
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:<\/strong> Mark Packard spent the last 38 years as a trial attorney and is now retired from the courtroom and working as a mediator. In a life before lawyering he was a journalist and regrets waiting far too long before returning to his roots to write his first novel, Rip the Sky. Though he knows he should have jumped off the merry-go-round years ago, he hopes to hang around long enough to craft a few more tales. Connect with the author:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.lonestarliterary.com\/sites\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/files\/field\/image\/giveaway_rip_the_sky.png\")
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