Excerpt From Work in Progress for Title Focus Group

Chapter One

Do you think your whole life could
change in just one day? I didn't, but now I know better. I was one of those people who thought nothing really bad
would happen to them. I didn't think anything extraordinary would occur either,
and I was fine with that. I liked my middle-of-the-road, Midwestern, normal life.

It all began to unravel
one morning in June. The phone rang while I was