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Sisters Writing Crime
Books by Charlene Tess
Category:
Mystery/Suspense
Publisher: Independent
Type: Fiction
Pages: 390
Copyright: December 1, 2018
Price: $3.99 (eBook)
Someone is trying to kill Hannah Cameron's twin sister Juliette Dreschler in this exciting sequel to Stolen Laughter.
Juliette Dreschler awakens to a startling reality.
She is only a shell of the woman she used to be after a life-altering accident left her both physically and mentally changed, and now someone has marked her for death.
It’s Lenny Raines’ job to keep the young, fragile woman safe and to determine who and why someone wants to harm her. Lenny isn’t your average hero and has scars of his own from a troubled and dangerous past.
He is intrigued by Juliette’s stubborn determination and admires her courage in the face of danger. Lenny tries to push aside the growing intense feelings he has for Juliette, because the last time he became involved it almost cost him everything.
As a killer emerges from the shadows, Lenny must risk everything to protect the woman he loves.
Excerpt
Atlanta, Georgia
Hannah Cameron’s husband Bryce was a killer, although no one blamed him for what he had done, and the police had no interest in arresting him.
A witness confirmed that Bryce had killed Doctor Hans Dreschler in self-defense while trying to rescue his wife from the deranged doctor. After Bryce gave a detailed statement to the police, they let him go.
Now, Hannah Cameron was nervous as she held tightly onto her husband’s hand. Several weeks had passed, and she was beginning to get some of her own memories back.
Memories that Dreschler had stolen from her with his diabolical plan. Diabolical. The word sounded like something from a B movie, but it was the only word that could actually describe what the madman had done.
He had taken away everything from her, including her husband, her job, and her family, and then he began to replace all of her memories with those of her twin sister Juliette. A sister that she had never known about.
Separated at birth, the twins had been adopted by two different sets of parents.
When Hannah looked at Bryce now, she knew there were still many experiences and events in her life with him that she could not recall no matter how hard she tried.
And she tried. Every morning before she opened her eyes, she struggled to remember a moment or a day from the past. The details of their meeting each other and their wedding in Atlanta were simply events that he had told her about and not the precious memories they should have been.
But her feelings had not been erased. They were real. She knew she loved him, and even if she never pieced together everything about the life they had shared before, she would still be all right. She knew she could move forward as long as they were together. She looked up into his sharp, green eyes and smiled.
“After all that has happened, you have been so good to me. I want you to know how much I appreciate you and need you and …”
“Love me?”
“Oh, yes. I do love you.”
“I seem to recall when we first met, I told you I was a patient man. I can wait for the memories to return, and if they don’t, then I will be content with knowing that you love me.”
He gently pulled her into his arms and kissed her. She leaned into him and rested her head on his chest. “Are you okay?” he said.
“Yes. I’m a little afraid, I guess. I am nervous about seeing Janice and Conway again. It wasn’t so long ago that I believed they were my parents. I can’t shut off those feelings. They were real.”
“Certainly, they were real. They loved you when they thought you were Juliette, and they will love you still now that they know you’re Hannah. You can do this. You are the strongest person I know.”
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