Chapter 1 Standing over the body, Kat forced a short breath out of her nose. When she breathed in again, the smell of chemicals and bodily fluids flooded her nostrils. Blood was everywhere in the pool house, splattered on the wooden planks of the ceiling, peppered over the kayaks mounted on the walls, and staining […]
Excerpts
EXCERPT: MURDER ON MY MIND
CHAPTER NINETEEN BURIED, CRUSHED, AND ATTACKED BY WOLVES I think I’m having a heart attack.I can’t die right now. I haven’t sent Jeffan email with all our passwords.The kids cannot grow up with this loss.Just take some deep breaths.If I don’t change some things, I’m not going to see the boys get married and I […]
Chapter 29 – Humiliation
29 HUMILIATION There are different degrees of public humiliation, and some are worse than others. The humiliation from slipping on the ice or tripping over your own feet is commonplace and we have all experienced that moment of “I hope nobody saw that.” The humiliation from walking around with toilet paper trailing from the bottom […]
Chapter 17 – Italy
Chapter 17: Italy When I first stepped off the train from the airport and into the vast foreignness of Rome’s Termini Station, I had no inkling of the impact this adventure would have on my life. It wasn’t my first time travelling to Italy, but it was my first solo adventure. I was heading to […]