Run For Your Life

A midgrade novel by Ronald Lewis

represented by Jeanie Pantelakis

A story based on the authors own life.

On a cold March night in New Jersey, twelve-year-old, Josh Taylor and his mother make a desperate escape from their tiny four-room bungalow and a life riddled with pain. For seven years, Fred Gibson, Josh’s stepfather, ruled the house with intimidation and cruelty. Running away however, wouldn’t be the end of Fred. He never like things taken from him—even if he didn’t want them.

When they left, Josh brought with him two things that had belonged to his birth father; a math book and a chess set. One will help him grow into the young man he always wanted to be, the other will bring Fred’s rage and fury pouring back into his life.