title: The Adventures of Zoe & Alex: The Disappearing River
author:  David Mittan 
description: David was born in South Africa and he has lived in the US for almost 20 years. He is an avid cross-training fan, a voracious reader, loves learning new languages, and playing chess. David holds three degrees, including an MS from UT Austin and an MBA from MIT. He is a lifelong learner with interests in finance, human health, robotics and the future of education. He's also a highly experienced investor who enjoys solving problems. When he isn't busy sharing MakeThinkers with parents and educators across the world, David can be found spending time with his family, playing soccer with his two lovely daughters or strumming the guitar. <br />
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  author's imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance
  to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons—living or dead—is entirely coincidental.
   
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  Book 8 of The Blankenships series
  
   
   
  CHAPTER ONE
   
  For a little while, things moved too fast for Zoey to really keep track. It wasn’t so much that they
  were moving fast, she thought, afterward; she just couldn’t keep up. Her brain felt like a video
  whose data stream was stuttering, and she was only picking up 1 out of 10 frames. She went to
  the bedroom. She looked for clothes. She even found them and a suitcase small enough to be a
  carry-on in Alex’s