9.07.2013

#WeWriWa #8Sunday #SnippetSunday 09.08.13

It's a Sunday thing...



Each Sunday, Weekend Writing Warriors hosts a fun new blog hop. If you would like to participate, link to the list at http://www.wewriwa.com/ and post eight sentences from a published or unpublished work to your blog on Sunday. Follow the same link on Sunday to read excerpts from other authors.


SNIPPET SUNDAY

Each Sunday, fellow writers on the Facebook page, Snippet Sunday, share excerpts from their work on their blogs. To read more follow this link, https://www.facebook.com/groups/SnippetSunday/461163367303186.




This week's eight comes from my recently released romantic suspense novel, The End. Here's the set up... Ellie's husband, Tab, a part-time writer, part-time cabbie, has been dead almost a year.


I’d put the idea of reading his final words aside, but then I couldn’t stand it anymore. I had to read what he left behind.

When I opened the file, I expected to read something sentimental and just a little cheesy, something with a made-for-television happy ending. I expected to cry like a baby when I read his final words. Tab was the most dramatic man I’d ever met.

Instead, I became engrossed in a thriller that read so real I wondered if he had written a true story. All the plot needed was a realistic ending.


And the end came to me in the middle of the night.

Here's the blurb...

Sometimes the end is only the beginning...


Almost a year after her husband dies, Ellie Marston opens the file for Tab’s last manuscript, a thriller so compelling it reads like a true story. His manuscript needs an ending, so Ellie writes the obvious conclusion. The same morning she types The End, her career as an assistant district attorney falls apart. Accused of throwing the high profile Patterson case, she resigns in disgrace. The only friend she has left in the criminal justice system is Det. Paul Santiago, a man she has worked closely with on numerous cases. While she was married to Tab, she squashed her growing feelings for Paul, determined to make her deteriorating marriage work, but circumstances after Tab’s death bring Ellie and Paul together.

Ellie’s paranoia increases as she becomes convinced Patterson is harassing her, certain that someone is searching her belongings for any hidden evidence she might have that would reopen his case. It becomes clear there was a conspiracy to release Patterson. She seeks help from her former co-worker, Presley Sinclair, but soon discovers Presley is deeply involved in the subsequent cover up. Worse yet, Tab’s affair with Presley drew him into the twisted conspiracy as well.

Together Paul and Ellie attempt to uncover the conspiracy in the District Attorney’s office, the set up that forced her to resign. The key to the mystery is hidden in the pages of Tab’s manuscript. Once Paul and Ellie come to the correct conclusion—Tab’s manuscript is a true story and Ellie’s added ending is the only logical outcome—Ellie attempts to reveal Patterson’s hidden partner in the District Attorney’s office, but the co-conspirator she uncovers is not whom she suspects. Danger swirls around her as she steps further and further into the conspirator’s trap.

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I hope you enjoyed the eight and the blurb. The End is only 2.99, that's less than the cost of a gallon of gasoline. Less than a gallon of milk. Click on the book cover above for the purchase link.

19 comments:

  1. What a fantastic premise! Sounds like there are a lot of twists in this, too.

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  2. Sounds very intriguing! Great snippet and blurbl

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  3. Wow, fantastic snippet. Now I have to get this book! Great job!

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  4. Okay. You hooked me. Now I'm mad you stopped. :)

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  5. Great premise! I'm passing this along to a friend of mine that I think would really love it.

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  6. Nice, I hope that if I die, someone will take care of my manuscripts too.

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  7. Great snippet and blurb. A lot of things going on at once!

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  8. Terrific eight. You've written sentences that granned this reader and left me wanting more. Thanks.

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  9. Wow, this book has an amazing premise and I loved the snippet, wanted to just keep reading. Terrific! Gotta add this to my To Be Read pile ASAP.

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  10. Oh wow, the novel has an awesome premise. I'm not too much of a suspense fan, but this one has caught my eye.

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  11. Do we get to read the thriller he wrote and her ending? Great snippet. Want to read more.

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  12. What a great snippet. I'm very intrigued and want to read more! Well done!

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  13. Excellent eight. Got me wondering what's next!

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  14. What a plot! Your snippet is so intriguing I have to read The End. Top of my TBR pile now.

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  15. Just bought. Have to wait to read until I get my edits sent in. :D

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  16. Excellent 8, excellent blurb - this sounds like a terrific book!

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  17. This sounds like a super story! Loved your snippet!

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  18. at 2.99 it is a steal and worth every cent! I loved it!

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