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EBOOK TITLE:
Bound by Blood
GENRE: romance/suspense
AUTHOR: Maureen Mackey
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"Author Maureen Mackey has written a great story with thrills and chills, fright and fear...BOUND BY BLOOD will have you turning the pages in anticipation. Definitely a good book to lose yourself with." Reviewed by: Tracy Eastgate Tracy's Book Reviews "Maureen Mackey's first person writing style is delightfully honest and fresh, lending the tale a wonderful immediacy. Her heroine's fierce protection of her daughter and fiery determination to stay in school make her a powerful force. Rather than the traditional linear plotting which progressively reveals new clues, however, Mackey adds suspects and motives to the mix, resulting in a terrifying tale with a exceptional conclusion. Very highly recommended!" Reviewed by Cindy Penn of Word Weaving |
| DESCRIPTION:
"Francie Steele
is a single mother struggling to make a better life for herself and her
5-year-old daughter Savannah. Francie's whole world consists of providing
for Savannah, going to college, and working two part time jobs, which doesn't
leave time for anything else. What Francie doesn't know though, that her
life is about to drastically change and not for the better.
Returning home from dinner one night, she finds her apartment door open and her cousin Lisa on the floor dead. Francie has absolutely no idea why anyone would want to break into her small studio apartment, she has nothing of value, or at least that is what she thinks. The police and her friends tell her that Lisa must have interrupted a break-in but Francie doesn't believe it and the terror is only beginning for her." |
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Excerpt: Just then I heard Savannah call from the top of the stairs. "Mommy, Mommy, our door's already opened!"
A sharp stab of unease pierced me. "Stay there, Savannah, I'll be right up." I bounded up the stairs and found my daughter in the hallway. The door to our little apartment was ajar, and the lights were on.
I stopped in the doorway. What I saw defied reason, and I was paralyzed by shock. The place had been totally ransacked. Drawers were opened and upended on the floor, boxes emptied, their contents strewn. Candyland cards, with their little squares of bright colors, were scattered all over the floor. Even Savannah's toy box had been dumped.
And then I noticed the spiky heel of a shiny black pump protruding from behind the couch.
"Stay right there," I had to repeat my instructions to Savannah, who was still in the doorway, and would have bounded into the apartment if I hadn't stopped her.
I looked behind the couch. A woman lay sprawled, her face a ghastly shade of blue, her eyes popping out of her head. It was Lisa, gorgeous Lisa, her sophistication mocked and disfigured by death. Pearls from her broken necklace were scattered around her head.
Shock felt like a kick in the stomach, and I doubled over. Somehow the Pope materialized beside me. He must have been quietly following me all the way up the stairs.
He knelt beside her and gingerly felt for her pulse.
"Is she, is sheŃ" I asked the question, although I already knew the answer.
"Oh yes," he replied. "Better not touch anything, Francie. She's most definitely dead."
I looked again, in spite of myself, and then wished I hadn't. It wasn't only the sight of my cousin's dead body that increased my nausea. It was the broken picture frame beside it, and the picture of Savannah clutched in Lisa's lifeless hand.
| Author
BIO: Home
for Maureen Mackey is the towering firs and misty rains of the Pacific Northwest.
Writing is her life-long dream, which first surfaced when she was in the
third grade. Ambitiously, she wrote an entire table of contents to an original
fairy tale, and then began writing the chapters only to get hopelessly mired
in chapter four. Happily, she’s never gotten stuck like that again,
(perhaps because she doesn’t write tables of contents anymore), and
to date she has written several contemporary and historical romances, as
well as a romantic suspense trilogy. Born in Los Angeles, California, she was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and earned her bachelors of arts degree in English from the University of California, Santa Barbara. While studying English literature and history, she fell in love with the eighteenth-century and Regency England, areas she continues to enjoy researching and writing about. Determined to become a working writer, she obtained a masters of journalism from the University of California, Berkeley, which led to jobs as a staff writer and free-lancer for a number of publications. In her journalistic career Maureen has written feature articles and book reviews for newspapers, which include the San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner and The Oregonian, as well as profiles and in-depth reporting pieces for magazines such as Learning, Change, Darkroom Photography and Monterey Life. Maureen has also written restaurant reviews in tandem with her photographer husband, Tom White, for The Multnomah Village Post, a monthly newspaper in Portland, Oregon. She is a contributing writer to Portland Cheap Eats, (Sasquatch Books, 1999) and Portland Best Places, to be released by Sasquatch Books in Spring 2001. Her Regency romance novel, Lord Peter’s Page, won first place in the 1996 Top O’ The Trees, a writing competition sponsored by the Regency Plume, before being published by Awe-Struck E-Books. She is a member of the Romance Writers of America, its Portland chapter, Rose City Romance Writers, and the Beau Monde, a special-interest chapter for writers of Regencies. In addition to her writing, Maureen manages a technical communications business with her husband Tom. In her spare time (what she has of it!) she enjoys prowling through used book stores, gardening, listening to music (especially when played by her two teen-age band student sons) and traveling with Tom, her best friend and companion for the past 27 years. In addition to being busy with her family, she happily copes with a menagerie of animals that includes two large, mixed-breed dogs, two cats, and various assorted fish and rodents. |
