APED

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Venture Primal Instinct! </strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>APED (2025) is the 2nd commercial novel released under the JHN Exclusive Brand of Jacob Hollingsworth Network Corporation! APED exposes a raw nature for the world to finally see what it's like to grow up in the Southern Midwest state of Missouri. If you are a fan of thrillers mysteries comedy science fiction and fantasy stories or you're like the author of this novel and were born and bred in the Midwest </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>this </strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>is the book for you!</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The author takes pride in his Southern Midwest culture by creating characters for those who grew up in the Midwestern Y2K era to recognize and relate to.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>3 freshmen students: Michael Victor and Wyatt attend a university in the polarizing vacation spot of Branson Missouri with their own personal agendas. Victor is a revered soccer player on a full-ride scholarship from St. Charles Missouri. Michael is a highly-touted and celebrated dance major from Hannibal Missouri. Wyatt is the odd one out from Santa Barbara CA as the heir to the billion dollar company Chung Corporations.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>In their first day on campus Wyatt drags and involves his new roommate Victor and their new friend Michael on a speculative supernatural adventure with technology he created to investigate a string of local kidnappings around the city of Branson. Wyatt suspects the abductions are caused by something sinister. Victor and Michael play along for </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>shits and giggles</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> but later find out... these kidnappings may not be ordinary missing persons cases. On their search the 3 students encounter a professor in disguise at Lam University by the name of Max who is on his </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>own </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>supernatural mission and he needs the help of Victor and Michael to retrieve his powerful interdimensional device. But it will take </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>more </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>than human strength and resolve. He promises Victor and Michael </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>unimaginable </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>power in order to achieve his goal. But how much of what Max says is actually true?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>This all leads to Victor and Michael not knowing what is real and what isn't. </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Who </strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>can be trusted? </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Who's </strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>actually behind the </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>very real </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>kidnappings?</span></p>