Blurb:
Evil
comes in many forms…
One
by one, Laura Armstrong’s friends and adoptive family members are being
murdered, and despite her unique healing powers, she can do nothing to stop it.
The savage killer haunts her dreams, tormenting her with the promise that she
is next. Determined to find the killer, she follows her visions to the site of
a crashed meteorite in her hometown. There, she meets Ben Fieldstone, who seeks
answers about his parents’ death the night the meteorite struck. In a race to
stop a madman, they unravel a frightening secret that binds them together. But
the killer’s desire to destroy Laura face-to-face leads to a showdown that puts
Laura and Ben’s emotional relationship and Laura’s pure spirit to the test.
With the killer closing in, Laura discovers her destiny is linked to his, and
she has two choices—redeem him or kill him.
Excerpt:
“I
am not here to hurt you,” the man said when Ben shrunk into the rock. “I’m
going to cut the ropes.”
In
a few swift movements he slit the ropes binding Ben, who staggered back. The
man caught him and held him up, then ripped off the duct tape.
“Who
are you?” Ben’s body trembled from the rush of fear and a fierce headache
pounded in his temple.
The
man didn’t answer. He bent over one of the dead Samoans and pulled out a
wallet. He looked inside and threw it at Ben. “It’s yours.” Then the man led
him by the arm down the overgrown road where he handed Ben his clothes from the
brush.
“Come
on,” the man said. Ben looked back at the dead men sprawled face down. They
oozed like two fat walruses sunning themselves in the moonlight. “Don’t worry
about them. I’ll dump them later, somewhere they’ll never be found.”
In
a daze, Ben followed his savior up the rough road, stumbling behind him in the
dim moonlight.
“I’ll
take you back to base and you’re on your own,” the man said once they reached
his car, parked off the main road. “Don’t speak of this to anyone. Understand?”
Ben
nodded and climbed in the car. He looked over at the stranger in black who had
saved him. His mammoth biceps flexed as he drove, hunched over the wheel. Ben
stared at him, and then a memory flickered. “Why are you following me? Why save
me?”
“I’m
an interested party. Leave it at that.”
“I
can’t. I would have died up there for sure.”
The
man didn’t respond.
“Thank
you.”
The
man looked at Ben. His green eyes glowed in the moonlight that filtered into
the car.
“Someday
you might not thank me. Someday you might not survive.”
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Author Bio
and Links:
Donna
Galanti is the author of the paranormal suspense Element Trilogy (Imajin Books) and the
children’s fantasy adventure Joshua and The Lightning Road series (Month9Books). Donna is a contributing editor for
International Thriller Writers the Big Thrill magazine and blogs with other middle grade authors at Project Middle Grade Mayhem. She’s lived from England as a child, to Hawaii as a U.S. Navy
photographer. Donna enjoys teaching at conferences on the writing craft and
marketing and also presenting as a guest author at elementary and middle
schools.
Visit
her at www.elementtrilogy.com and www.donnagalanti.com.
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