Hello, readers! Welcome to our latest book in the Transformations series. The Farm picks up where Transformations: Rose left off. Lisa, Jason, Mary, and Belynda have arrived at Alex and Gwen's farm from Transformations: Witnesses.
If this is the first Transformations story you've read, STOP! You're reading the fourth book in the series! The novel reading order is:
Transformations: Witnesses
Transformations: Soccer Mom
Transformations: Rose
Transformations: The Farm
We also have short stories which aren't necessary to follow the books, but they do help! The short story order is:
Transformations: Britt-Ney
Transformations: The Hazards of Saving the Earth
Transformations: The New Gym
Thanks for reading, and as always, we welcome your comments!
*****
Rebecca Tanner knew this was a mistake when she first laid eyes on Clinton Travers. Fat, bearded, stuffed into a two sizes too small dirty polo shirt and wearing an even dirtier baseball cap emblazoned with the words: PUSSY HUNTER, Clinton was staring at her like a barbecue pit master looked at a rack of ribs.
Anything for the story
, she thought. She and her cameraman, Hank, also known as Bear, had driven three hours into bumfuck Egypt to interview Clinton. The greasy redneck was ogling her boobs in the tight blouse, and she wished she had opted for a baggy sweater instead.
Rebecca wondered if the farmer knew her boobs were probably smaller than his own man boobs?
"Mr. Travers, exactly how many people have you personally witnessed your neighbor abducting?" Rebecca asked.
"This is going to be on WNYC news, right?" Clinton asked.
"If it checks out."
"And, I'll get the reward from the police?"
"That's up to them." Rebecca fought down her disgust. If Travers's story was true, the farm next to his was involved in abduction and human trafficking.
And, all this son of a bitch cared about was getting his fat face on TV and lining his pockets. People suck.
Of course, if they didn't suck, she'd be out of a job.
Rebecca Tanner was an up and coming reporter at WNYC, one of the biggest markets in the country. This story could put her at the anchor desk - hell, it might get her a Pulitzer and propel her to national news anchor.
And, she could be instrumental in taking down a gang of sexual predators.
This was the reason she became a journalist in the first place.
They were sitting on Clinton's front porch.
Hank stood behind her, his camera focused on the leering redneck.
"When did you first begin to suspect your neighbor?" Rebecca asked.
"The day those Jehovah's Witnesses disappeared. I saw them turn into his drive."
"Your neighbor's name is Alex Kincaid?"
"Yeah, odd sort. He's some kind of body builder. Wife died a few years back."
"So, you say you saw the Jehovah's pull into his drive?"
"Yeah, two women and a man. They drove in, but they didn't drive out."
"And, you told the police?"
"Fuck yeah..."
Rebecca grimaced. "Don't say fuck. Can't say that on the network."
"Sorry. Yes, I told the police, not that they did sh... anything. They went to the house a few days later, then came back and said they didn't find nothing. 'Course, by that time, the Jehovah's was long gone, except for the blonde."
Rebecca's eyes narrowed. "Gwen Adamson?"
"Yeah, that's her."
"Wait, you're saying Gwen Adamson is still in the house?"
Clinton laughed and shook his head. "Yeah, the blonde that got out of the car is still over there - only now she's over six feet tall with tits like basketballs, and she says her name is Gwen Kincaid, Alex's new wife."
***
"You're sure?" Rebecca asked the person on the other end of the phone. Her assistant back in Manhattan had found a police report that said they had interviewed Alex and Gwen Kincaid in the disappearance of the Jehovah's and found nothing out of the ordinary.
Of course, a little digging by her assistant revealed that Gwen Kincaid did not exist before that police interview.
Were the cops in on it?
Rebecca hung up.
"What did they say?" Hank asked. He was changing the battery on the camera as they stood beside the WNYC van outside Clinton's house.
"His story checks out - the cops investigated, interviewed Gwen 'Kincaid' and didn't find anything out of the ordinary." She stared at two pictures in her hand. One was a police photo of Gwen Adamson, the other a long distance shot of Gwen Kincaid on her porch taken surreptitiously by Clinton.
Gwen Kincaid was like a new and improved version of Gwen Adamson, but they were definitely the same woman.
How the hell could that be possible? There was less than a week between the disappearance and the interview of the Kincaid's - there was no plastic surgery that could be performed and healed in that span of time. The woman had developed a rack worthy of a fetish model and a figure that looked like she was wearing an invisible corset.
And, then there was the question of her miraculous change in height. Nothing could make a woman grow eight inches taller, could it?
"Becca, hun, I'm scared shitless. Let's just go to the cops," Hank said. From any other man, his familiarity would have sounded sexist. But, Bear was just Bear - he didn't mean anything by it.
Not that they hadn't fucked.
Bear was just her type: big, muscled, and hairy.
They weren't in love. They were just fuck buddies when they weren't otherwise occupied.
And, Bear made her look damned good on camera.
"You? You're scared?" She grinned up at him.
"Goddamn right I am. If what he's saying is true, these people are fucking dangerous."
Rebecca nodded. According to Clinton, the Jehovah's were just the first abductees. Over the months following, there had been a constant stream of vehicles in and out of Adam Kincaid's farm. This coincided with rumored and confirmed abductions in nearby Ithaca.
"We need the story, Bear." She reached into the back of the van and pulled out her leather hiking boots. "If Clinton's right, the local cops are in on this shit. We need to go back to Manhattan with evidence."
"Goddamn it," Bear groaned.
She sat down on the van's floorboard and started changing her shoes. "Come on, Bear. Where's your sense of adventure?"
"Fine, but if you come out of this with super tits, don't blame me."
Rebecca laughed. "I don't know." She thrust out her chest. "Bigger boobs might be a career boost." She winked at him. "Besides, maybe you'll get the big boobs."
He frowned. "Yeah, exactly the shit I'm afraid of."
***
"I ain't going no closer," Clinton whispered.
They were kneeling in a copse of trees a hundred yards from Adam Kincaid's barn.
Bear was filming after having put gaffing tape over the LEDs on the camera.
"What?! Seriously?" Rebecca hissed.
Clinton shook his head. "You ain't seen the shit I've seen. Gwen Kincaid, when she looks at you? You feel... strange. Like she's looking inside your head. Ain't going any closer. You can go on if you like." He turned and crept away back toward his house.
"Cowardly mother..." Rebecca whispered.
"Yeah, I'm in agreement with him," Bear whispered back.
She shook her head. The barn had no windows, but the farmhouse beyond did. Light streamed from the basement windows.
Rebecca pointed at the house. "Let's shoot some footage through the basement windows."
Bear winced. "Fine."
They made their way slowly behind the barn.
"Holy shit," Rebecca said.
The field behind the barn was a parking lot filled with expensive cars: Mercedes, BMWs, and Teslas mostly.
They were almost to the house when a car pulled into the drive. They ducked down beside a Tesla SUV.
For a moment, Rebecca was afraid the big black Mercedes was going to park in the lot, but instead it pulled right up in front of the farmhouse.
A woman got out of the car.
She was in her early twenties, dressed in white with gorgeous dark hair.
Even in the dim light, the girl was one of the most beautiful people Rebecca had ever seen.
"Wow," Bear whispered.
She went to the door.
A moment later it opened.
Gwen stood framed in golden light. "Hello, Lisa. My name is Gwen. We've been expecting you."
The girl, Lisa seemed to be trembling. "I've done bad things. Horrible things."
"Shh," Gwen whispered. "We all have. And, we will continue to do them. But, it's going to be alright, Lisa. You're home now."
Gwen held Lisa tenderly.
In a few moments, the others got out of the car: an older woman, a muscular boy, and a tall Latina. They all went in the house.
"Come on, hurry!" Rebecca said. Together, she and Bear ran to the basement windows.
Rebecca peered inside.
It took a moment for her eyes to adjust.
The room was brightly lit and sterile looking, not at all what she would expect from a farmhouse. It took Rebecca a moment to realize she was looking at an operating table.
"Are you getting this?"Rebecca whispered.
"Yeah, let's get..."
There was a loud crack, and Bear hit the ground beside her, his prize camera rolling into the bushes.
Rebecca spun as she saw the black metal handle of a flashlight swinging toward her face. She stumbled backward and then scrambled to her feet.
A tall woman wearing Daisy Dukes and a red handkerchief halter top was smiling at her. "Ain't you pretty?"