Tuesday, May 23, 2017

Listen to the Shadows


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By Joan Hall Hovey


Did you ever feel you were being watched, that things around you just weren't right?  Well, Katie Summers had those feelings for some time, but kept rationalizing them instead of Listening to the Shadows.  She learned the hard way that if something seems off, it probably is.

When Katie woke up from her coma after the accident, she tried to put the pieces together... After being stood up for a date, Katie drove home in horrendous weather, but it was the eyes of the dead man in her rear view mirror that caused the accident, not the pelting rain and wind. How could that be?  Even the mysteriously strange psychiatrist Dr. Shea thought something else was going on.  If there was a dead man in Katie's car, why wasn't the body still there when the police arrived at the accident scene?

Once released from the hospital, things didn't get better for Katie.  She lived in an old farmhouse in a secluded area. Things she once thought were quaint, like no central heat or electricity, lost their charm when the big empty house didn't feel so empty.  Though she was alone, the shadows told another story.

Interestingly enough, Dr. Shea kept showing up at the most opportune times. Opportune for him, or opportune for Katie?  Katie started to wonder.  She also started to wonder about many of the people she dealt with on a daily basis, because when things happen in the shadows, it's hard to tell who you can trust in the light!
 

Monday, May 1, 2017

Silent Child

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By Sarah A. Denzil 

Emma is traumatized by her son Aiden's death. All that was recovered after the flood was his red jacket. It takes Emma over a decade to get her life back to "normal". Now married and almost ready to give birth, she gets a call from the police with news that her son has returned...no, not from the dead. Though Emma is overcome with joy, her life is once again shaken up as she realizes, little by little, what hell her son faced these past 10 years. They live in a small town where everyone knows everyone, so who could have committed such horrible acts towards her son? With Aiden too traumatized to speak, by the time Emma pieces together the truth, it might be too late for all of them.

Silent Child is a story with lots of twists and turns, not to mention some really twisted people too.