A Human Element
by Donna Galanti
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GENRE: Paranormal Suspense
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BLURB:
Evil comes in many
forms…
One by one, Laura
Armstrong’s friends and adoptive family members are being murdered, and despite
her unique healing powers, she can do nothing to stop it. The savage killer
haunts her dreams, tormenting her with the promise that she is next. Determined
to find the killer, she follows her visions to the site of a crashed meteorite
in her hometown. There, she meets Ben Fieldstone, who seeks answers about his
parents’ death the night the meteorite struck. In a race to stop a madman, they
unravel a frightening secret that binds them together. But the killer’s desire
to destroy Laura face-to-face leads to a showdown that puts Laura and Ben’s
emotional relationship and Laura’s pure spirit to the test. With the killer
closing in, Laura discovers her destiny is linked to his, and she has two
choices—redeem him or kill him.
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EXCERPT:
“I am not here to hurt you,” the man said when Ben shrunk
into the rock. “I’m going to cut the ropes.”
In a few swift movements he slit the ropes binding Ben, who
staggered back. The man caught him and held him up, then ripped off the duct
tape.
“Who are you?” Ben’s body trembled from the rush of fear and
a fierce headache pounded in his temple.
The man didn’t answer. He bent over one of the dead Samoans
and pulled out a wallet. He looked inside and threw it at Ben. “It’s yours.”
Then the man led him by the arm down the overgrown road where he handed Ben his
clothes from the brush.
“Come on,” the man said. Ben looked back at the dead men
sprawled face down. They oozed like two fat walruses sunning themselves in the
moonlight. “Don’t worry about them. I’ll dump them later, somewhere they’ll
never be found.”
In a daze, Ben followed his savior up the rough road,
stumbling behind him in the dim moonlight.
“I’ll take you back to base and you’re on your own,” the man
said once they reached his car, parked off the main road. “Don’t speak of this
to anyone. Understand?”
Ben nodded and climbed in the car. He looked over at the
stranger in black who had saved him. His mammoth biceps flexed as he drove,
hunched over the wheel. Ben stared at him, and then a memory flickered. “Why
are you following me? Why save me?”
“I’m an interested party. Leave it at that.”
“I can’t. I would have died up there for sure.”
The man didn’t respond.
“Thank you.”
The man looked at Ben. His green eyes glowed in the
moonlight that filtered into the car.
“Someday you might not thank me. Someday you might not
survive.”
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Donna Galanti
is the author of the paranormal suspense Element Trilogy (Imajin Books
-http://www.imajinbooks.com/ ) and the
children’s fantasy adventure Joshua and The Lightning Road series (Month9Books
-http://www.month9books.com/ ). Donna is a contributing editor for
International Thriller Writers the Big Thrill (http://www.thebigthrill.org/) -
magazine and blogs with other middle grade authors at Project Middle Grade
Mayhem (http://project-middle-grade-mayhem.blogspot.com/search/label/Donna
Galanti) . She’s lived from England as a child, to Hawaii as a U.S. Navy
photographer. Donna enjoys teaching at conferences on the writing craft and
marketing and also presenting as a guest author at elementary and middle
schools.
Visit her at
www.elementtrilogy.com and www.donnagalanti.com.
Connect with
Donna:
Website:
http://www.elementtrilogy.com/
Twitter:
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