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Category:
Action/Thriller
Publisher: Wings ePress
ISBN-10: 979889197
Type: Fiction
Pages: 305
Copyright: October 1, 2024
ISBN-13: 9798891970151
Price: $2.99 (eBook)
Ensnared by betrayal, one man’s chilling rendezvous with his former spouse unravels a nightmarish odyssey culminating in a battle of dire consequences.
Ghosts of the past. Scars of unhealed wounds. An unsettled reckoning.
When a series of mysterious explosions reduce Ridge Warner’s home to rubble and leaves him injured, he is thrust back into a world of chaos and uncertainty. As he edges closer to the elusive answers he seeks, an unthinkable betrayal shatters his trust.
With Angel Meade’s hostility mounting, a face-to-face showdown becomes inevitable, and the outcome is anything but certain. As the past collides with the present, a high-stakes conflict arises where survival is a gamble, and the truth may be the deadliest weapon of all.
Excerpt
The nightmare’s twinges no doubt stemmed from my subconscious. Memories etched forever in our minds. Not the fond ones. No. Those which haunt us take over every second of our idle time. Suzette’s murder added another to the file.
The numerals on the stove’s clock emitted a green glow. Two minutes after midnight. Another day became history. Another day added to others I wished I could relive to alter its outcome. I scanned the room. Stainless appliances and window glass reflected the glow. The woodwork absorbed it. Both reminded me of my life. I had absorbed too much ruin.
I filled a glass from the tap. I gulped the water and set the glass in the sink. The glow on the window blocked any view of the world beyond. I saw my reflection on the surface. I visualized the scene days earlier beyond the window. Suzette was out there in the darkness. Black tactical gear concealed her from everything except an IED. Her burns required inpatient care for two days. They released her afterward. Hope lifted our spirits. We looked forward to our future. Death cloaked her now. No chance for release. None existed.
I rarely talk to myself, but I felt the need for a pep talk. “You know what to do, Ridge. This is what you trained for.”
I tiptoed down the hall. The door to Ravenna’s temporary bedroom stood open. I remembered it was closed on my trip to the kitchen.
At our first meeting, Ravenna the medic responded to the explosion at the church. She hovered above me in the haze of dust and smoke. I saw her nametag. Ravenna Tinsley—Angel Meade’s best friend. That day she told me she knew Angel’s deepest secrets. I had doubted her claim. That was before Charlie told me Ravenna possessed the gift of an audiographic memory. He’d warned me. That was before a lot of forced, and unforced, incidents altered our perspectives.
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