The Closest Stranger

About the Book

This is the final book to the grizzly suspence trilogy. After a life-time filled with abuse and being used by the world she lives in; Amy lands herself back into the institutions care hoping to live out the rest of her days alone and in peace. It all changes when a somebody from her past comes back years after she was reinstituionalized to seek revenge for his family. He gets more then he bargains for once he finds her and it causes her to flip back into her old mind set of who she used to be. After escaping from the instituion's walls she tries to find David, her pyschiatrist, to help her, but once she finds him she soon realizes he too has been keeping his own secrets from her. Amy now must make a decision to turn herself back into the hands of the institution which has lied to her since a teenager or take control of the situation and make her own destiny.

About the Author

My name is Shane Ballon and I live in a small town in Colorado with my wife Julie and our four children. I run a local rental furniture store out here and attend the University of Phoenix full time as I am trying to recieve my degree in Buisness. I served a few years in the United States Army as a Cavalry Scout and got injured in Iraq back in 2005. I found writing to be a great outlet for the emotions that are inside of me. I am orginally from the New Orleans area in Louisiana. For being only twenty-seven I have alot on my plate that I am taking on. Running a full blown corprate buisness, going to college full time and just finishing three books has definatly kept me busy; not to include the family life when I am home. There will be plenty of books coming as I have many ideas and want to put them in print for people to enjoy and to understand me better. They are filled with both everyday life situations and dark fantasy worlds that I put myself in. This is the third book that will finish my suspence trilogy of, The Closest Stranger. These are my first few books that I have written and published and I feel the greatest thing I am proud of is its growth. I never expected it to turn into a trilogy when I wrote the first book. As I am publishing this one I am finishing up my fourth book which is my personal autobiography. It is called, Patient 1903/ Surviving PTSD. Thank you for the support in my new journey with writing.