The Benevolent Lords of Sometimes Island

A fantastic coming-of-age thriller. - IndieReader (IR Approved)2021 First Place for Middle-Grade/Young Adult - Writers Digest Self-Published Book Awards2021 Shortlisted - U.S. Selfies Book Awards2020 Quarter Finalist for Young Adult Fiction - The BookLife PrizeThe summer of 1986. Central Texas. William and his friends should be having a blast. Instead they are hounded by the Thousand Oaks Gang and their merciless leader Bloody Billy. William found Billys backpack. And because of what it contains Billy desperately wants it back and hell do anything to get it. William hatches a plan for his friends to sneak away and hide in an abandoned lake house except they become stranded on the lakes desolate island without food or water. Will their time on the island devolve into chaos? Will the friends survive and be rescued?The Benevolent Lords of Sometimes Island is Lord of the Flies meets The Body by Stephen King the inspiration for the classic movie Stand By Me.A gripping suspense story with adventure and danger tinged with humorous banter between the four friends the middle schoolers face certain death without adults to protect them from the unrelenting natural elements as well as the wild creatures that lurk in the wilderness around the lake. With a backpack filled with money and marijuana they stole from the merciless gang leader its only a matter of time before the high schoolers come looking for them too.From award-winning writer Scott Semegran The Benevolent Lords of Sometimes Island is his eighth book. This novel is Semegrans response to William Goldings 1954 novel Lord of the Flies which was Goldings response to The Coral Island by R. M. Ballantyne an adventure novel from 1858. All three novels tackle the premise of boys stranded on an island with Semegrans novel taking a decidedly modern view of a group of friends in Central Texas during the summer of 1986 working to survive in a situation filled with danger and desperation with only each other to rely on.