To be released in late September 2012
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I hope you enjoy this new excerpt and will want to know more about Mitch and Dana! (pssst: the characters are being reincarnated from No Turning Back!) Please share the links with your reader friends and help me spread the word about Whispers' release in late September!
Excerpt:
After
a week in Los Angeles, Drake Mitchell Wyndham sat at his desk in his home
office in Southport, North Carolina sorting through several messages his
secretary, Heather, had left. Someone at the Lower Cape Fear Historical Society
obviously was not a timid church mouse; then again, maybe as old as a church mouse. Eight of the
fifteen messages were from the Society, yet he kept putting them off. He wasn’t
ready to deal with the Historical Society regarding the lighthouse he’d
inherited years ago and had done nothing with since then.
He leaned back in his leather chair,
leaning on one elbow and resting his chin on his fingers. He thought about the
damn tower more than he should since he’d inherited the place when his
grandfather passed four years ago. Then abruptly, he leaned forward to rummage
through his side file drawer, his fingers skimming over the file tabs until he
found the folder. Opening the file, his grandfather’s signed will lay on top.
The will had left him two letters along with the deed to the lighthouse signed
by the Coast Guard and the Government, granting him ownership, something
unheard of in North Carolina. He knew how rare this type of deed was.
Mitch picked up the letters, one from his
grandfather stating that he should carefully consider checking into the background
of the past keepers to connect with his future and the other appeared older
than he cared to estimate. His grandfather stated that the letter had been
given to him and he should pass it on, so he had.
Before carefully opening the weathered
letter, he again glanced at the postmark dated in England well over two hundred
years ago which had been written by a woman named Vanessa, to her lover. Her
beautiful cursive filled the page. She had included a picture of herself, which
fell from the papers. Though the age of the picture matched the postmark on the
envelope, her delicate features were still evident…she had been a beautiful
woman.
Mitch thought she or her lover might have
something to do with the lighthouse. He studied the woman’s eyes as a familiarity
seeped into his senses. His thumb lightly caressed the old photograph as though
he were actually touching her face. He’d seen that sincere look before, albeit
only for a second when he came across the woman trespassing at his lighthouse.
But how could the two look so much alike? He stared at the photo, as though
answers would somehow be given to him. Unable to make sense of the resemblance,
he placed the picture inside and folded up the letter, kept it with the will
and deed, and closed the file.
What the hell did his grandfather mean…connect with his future? All that
garbage of the past rewriting itself was for the birds...or the Cape Fear
Historical Society! Then curiosity got the better of him. Mitch pulled out the
woman’s letter one more time to look at the picture again. Though the picture
was old, he could tell her eyes were light, possibly blue or green, and her
long dark hair flowed over her shoulders, so unlike other female pictures of
that time period. He thought about her, what she might have been like and the
relationship she had with the man in the letter.
Rubbing his thumb over her face and hair,
he wondered if they had been married or just lovers. Visions of frigates at sea
and docked at a wharf drifted through his mind. Was there more than he knew to
explain his interest for sailing? Did all this have something to do with what
he thought he’d seen so long ago at the lighthouse? He would rather not rehash
that day or others would think was nuts. Then he reread the note and knew he
needed to hold off on any immediate decisions of selling the place, though he
still couldn’t fathom what this could possibly have to do with his own life.
What did his grandfather know that he never informed him of?
Mitch couldn’t explain why he felt a tug
toward being at the lighthouse but it came to him more than he cared to face.
There was something out there. The
eerie sense of foreboding that came over him when he’d snuck into the keeper’s
house all those years ago had kept him from going back inside and who he
thought he saw couldn’t possibly have been there on the stairs leading up to
the tower! He chose to ignore whoever it was and not go back inside.
The woman at the lighthouse a few weeks
ago came to mind. Mitch looked closer at the picture. He nearly stopped
breathing. If he didn’t know better, he would have thought the picture was one
of those old fashioned photos some take nowadays. The eyes were so like the
woman he’d caught trespassing, but that likelihood was impossible. This picture
was over a century old!
He carefully put the picture and the
letter back in the envelope as visions of ships at sea floated through his
mind, confusing him even more about getting rid of the lighthouse. Then again,
perhaps he should sell it off. It
would be no different than any of the other corporations he bought and sold for
profit. Yet, this property seemed different. For some reason, he was drawn to
it and damned if he knew why; he hadn’t been out there since he was a teenager
and those were memories he didn’t want to stir up.
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Ok got me hooked! Is it Sept yet? LOL. This book sounds amazing. Really looking forward to it. I think I have already said I loved the cover. Just beautiful. Going to check out your website next.
ReplyDeleteSue B
Sue, as always, thanks for being a constant visitor to my sites! I'm glad you stop by to see what's happening!
ReplyDeleteReaders, I hope you get a chance to read Chapter One but also grab both of my novels. They're close to 100,000 words for only $2.99!!! Thank you so much for stopping in to read!
Oh my gosh! I have added Whispers At Ghost Point on my wish list. I have to find out what happens. Love the cover and the excerpt.
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Hi Kallie!! Thank you for stopping in! I'm so glad you're excited about the release of Whispers!
ReplyDeleteMy beta readers have told me that since they'd read No Turning Back, they love seeing those characters brought into this book thru reincarnation! I'm glad the story is coming together! One reader even pointed out that two other characters I've pulled in resemble those from NTB! That I hadn't planned on but my subconscious must have been at work!
Hello Deanna!!
ReplyDeleteSince reading the first excerpt of your new book....well I keep coming back with the hope it has been published.
You sure know how to "Tease" a person with your magnificent way of wording!!! So frustrated here...LOL. Please hurry up and get this book out...I certainly want to be here on this earth to read and hold this book in my hands....LOL
Mary