Excerpt: The Cool Neighbors

Juley had stayed awake half the night, unable to sleep, envious of Gerry's rolling snores. Eventually she had drifted off and had let him go. Perhaps that's when he heard the flailing winds and what sounded like rain pouring down. Even though the windows weren't wet. She had been tempted to check the TV for storm instructions telling her to wake her husband and shelter themselves in the underground shelter half a block away. But the power was out and she remained strangely still, despite the fear bubbling up in her. She had stayed in her bedroom all night, in her house, in her sanctuary, though the savagery of the windstorm had shaken her to the core.