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Shadow of Danger
by Kristine Mason
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Four women have
been found dead in the outskirts of a small Wisconsin town. The only witness,
clairvoyant Celeste Risinski, observes these brutal murders through violent
nightmares and hellish visions. The local sheriff, who believes in Celeste’s
abilities and wants to rid their peaceful community of a killer, enlists the
help on an old friend, Ian Scott, owner of a private criminal investigation
agency, CORE. Because of Ian’s dark history with Celeste’s family, a history
she knows nothing about, he sends his top criminalist, former FBI agent John
Kain to investigate.
John doesn’t
believe in Celeste’s mystic hocus-pocus, or in her visions of the murders. But
just when he’s certain they’ve solved the crimes, with the use of science and
evidence, more dead bodies are discovered. Could this somehow be the work of
the same killer or were they dealing with a copycat? To catch a vicious
murderer, the skeptical criminalist reluctantly turns to the sensual psychic
for help. Yet with each step closer to finding the killer, John finds himself
one step closer to losing his heart.
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Excerpt #1 (heroine)
Fingers clawing at the
sheets, tearing them from the mattress, Celeste Risinski woke with a scream.
Panicked, disoriented, she shoved at hands she swore still gripped her. As she
struggled, she knocked the alarm clock from the nightstand. When it hit the
hardwood floor, the radio blared. The loud music, laced with crackling static,
startled her.
She whipped open her eyes,
relief slowed her racing heart as she looked down at her body, to where her
arms and legs were tangled in the thin sheets and comforter. Brutal hands weren’t
holding her down. She wasn’t in the woods. She wasn’t fighting for her life.
She was in her bedroom, waking up from another nightmare, another look into
hell.
Dragging in a deep breath,
she pulled herself to the edge of the mattress, bent and retrieved the clock.
After turning off the radio, she placed it back on the nightstand, then wiped
tears from her face she didn’t remember crying.
No, not true. In her
nightmare, she’d cried and screamed, begged and pleaded, while trapped in the
body of another woman. She hated the way her mind had been sucked into the
woman’s soul. She’d experienced every ounce of the terror, and even the pain
the woman had endured. She rubbed her neck where the phantom cord had been
wrapped during the dream. Even though she was blessedly free of the nightmare
and sitting in her bedroom, claustrophobia wrapped tightly around her, making
it difficult to breathe.
.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I didn’t pick up my first
romance novel until I was in my late twenties. Immediately hooked, I read a
bazillion books before deciding to write one of my own. After the birth of my
first son I needed something to keep my mind from turning to mush, and Sesame
Street wasn’t cutting it. While that first book will never see the light of
day, something good had come from writing it. I realized my passion, and had
found a career that I love.
When I’m not writing
contemporary romances and dark, romantic suspense novels (or reading them!) I’m
chasing after my four kids and two neurotic dogs.
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4 comments:
Welcome to my blog. I hope you have a great tour.
Very nice excerpt
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Hi Christine! Thank you for hosting today!
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Kristine
Hope you have a fantastic tour!
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