A Time for Heroes

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Travis Logan was a reader, a movie buff, a TV addict, and a gamer. In short, he was a lover of stories—but not just any story held his interest. He reveled in grand sagas, epic explorations, daunting quests, and perilous adventures. The more larger than life, the more fascinating the story—

And the more Travis’s own mundane existence suffered by comparison.

In the stories he loved, dire circumstances forged ordinary people into heroes. The situation might be cruel or capricious, the work of an implacable enemy or of vast, impersonal forces. A debilitating illness. A car crash. Wartime horrors. Zombie plagues. A lover in peril.

It could be anything. But it had to be something.

Alas, for as far back as Travis could remember, he had had no such formative moment. There was no deep, meaningful lesson to define him. In all his humdrum life, there had been no opportunity to seize, no peril to overcome, no noble sacrifice to make, no grand challenge to which he might valiantly have risen. The one incident involving Travis that might fairly be called seminal was, quite literally, seminal, and his parents’ experience rather than his own.

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