What if it came to the starkest of all choices: kill, or else suffer the loss of a loved one?
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Plot: When a pregnant doctor is brutally murdered in her own kitchen, the husband claims to have some weeks earlier received an anonymous and darkly menacing letter. For the small town of Ravensby, it's just the start of a living nightmare - one in which nobody is spared from the murderous cross hairs, and which will drive Detective Inspector Kubič to the edge of his own sanity...
Genre: suspense/thriller
Status: completed
Length: 70,000 words (approx. 275 standard novel pages)
Target readership: Though aimed primarily at adults, the novel features several teenage characters and so may also appeal to a younger audience
Extract:
"Warn you sir, not a pretty sight in there."
Kubič took a deep, preparatory breath, his footsteps slow and leaden as he moved towards the kitchen door. Not for the first time over the years, he found himself wishing he'd chosen an entirely different sort of career. Paper-pushing, something out of doors. Anything at all. He'd always been reasonable enough at woodwork back at school, he recalled. Why hadn't he done that, he thought? Become a cabinet maker or some damn thing.
A reluctant hand pushed open the door...
"Oh dear Christ."
The words escaped his mouth forcefully, involuntarily, like blood gushing from an open wound
Felicia Simmons is a woman that just wants her freedom. After her divorce with a real estate mogul, she sets out to raise her teenage son and find the life she wants. A little business trip unravels a new romance with a young police officer. Love wasn't all that was involved when the police officer begins to threaten her.
"Ashton, i had a pleasant time with you ,believe me. I'm not at the age were a little time means forever...I want to find a reasonable man who would be a father to my son and help me grow into something greater than -" she choked down the tears. Avoiding his eyes, she clenched her bag for some support.
Ashton stood still.
"Are you okay?"
"How can you ask me that Fel...I thought ......i thought i meant more to you....I thought you enjoyed my presence".
"Ashton...you won't understand right now. You are freaking twenty-five....l'm a fourty- seven years old mother with a kid to raise, to fend for.
I have to help my son find his future. I can't handle another kid alright". Her anger flared with worry.
She was worried and scared of her future. She never thought that a little fun to pass time would end up a huge problem for her. He was in his twenties, had a sustainable job. Tanney would be turning eighteen soon, he had to go off to college, she didn't want to get distracted. All she wants right now is a family, with a man her son could look up to except from his father.
What would this little fun lead to? Whose blood would pay the price? Would death be the last result?
This book was inspired by a real life event. All the names and region is a work of fiction (including some twists in the plot). Please do not copy any of this content.
May contain some disturbing contents
Also this book has not gone through a thorough edit so please bear with me at any sight of mistake (Mispelling, grammar errors etc).
UNEDITED.