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Contemporary Americans live in a fascinating time. A time when audiences are notoriously hard to trick, surprise, or frighten. Authors everywhere are enduring a constant struggle to keep readers on their toes and shock them with a twist ending they never expected. This struggle is nicely battled in Becca J. Campbell’s novel, Foreign Identity , where suspense and horror are balanced with genuine human emotion and an overwhelming sense of mystery. The novel is, in short, steeped in the unexplainable, bringing to mind some of the most entertaining episodes of The X-Files and psychological suspense movies like Shutter Island . In Foreign Identity , the two heroes (a man and a woman) are thrown unceremoniously into a horrific maze of vaguely familiar circumstances, which they must work together to put in context.   The characters are very real entities, with real, human problems that are eked out in front of the backdrop of an eerily perfect landscape. This setting throws the...