When Olivia trades her promising career for a more domestic lifestyle as a wife and mother, she expects many things but never to see ghosts much less be one.
Her life with her handsome husband, Brandon, a successful criminal lawyer, starts as a happy one, but following a tragedy, guilt, alcohol and drugs crush their blissful world in a hurry. One minute Olivia is planning to leave the marriage and the next she’s floating at the foot of her son’s bed. Dead. Murdered. And all evidence points to Brandon as the prime suspect.
She is angry and determined to make him pay, but soon, she learns that if she wants justice, she must follow the clues that reach back into Brandon’s past.
Suspenseful, romantic and awash in the afterlife thrill, She Never Got To Say Goodbye captures the power of love and friendship.
Ica Iova is the author of several books—two of which are award winners. She Never Got To Say Goodbye, won bronze at World’s Best Story, 2015, and Boundaries, was a finalist at WBS, 2014.
Ica writes what she enjoys reading. In her novels, she brings to life powerful, gripping relationships and fascinating characters to which readers can relate.
A former Examiner at Examiner.com, Ica is also an avid reader and a Reader’s Choice Official Reviewer. When she is not writing, editing, or marketing, she’s a proud wife, mother, and grandmother, with a substantial sense of humor. She loves spending time with her family and pets, shopping for shoes, or just lazing around with a good book.
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The
idea behind She Never Got To Say Goodbye
When
I tell people what I do, their first question is, “What kind of
books do you write?” All brows go up as soon as the word paranormal
leaves my mouth. Though they rarely voice their true feelings that
take tours around their heads, an eyebrow still reaching the hairline
coupled with the next question, “Where do you get your ideas to
write such
stuff?”
divulge what really goes through their minds. I don’t get offended;
somewhere, embedded inside that awkward moment, I know there’s
sincere curiosity more than anything else. My response is always a
big smile followed by the statement, “I know. Dracula is my
ancestor.” It always seems to defuse and lighten up the moment,
because curiosity then shifts to intrigue. Almost everyone has heard
of Dracula, and they all want to know what was like growing up in a
country so rich in myths.
To
answer that
ever-present
question, I get my ideas from everywhere—the day to day life, the
TV programs, the newspapers, etc. My WIP, Angelic Measures, another
paranormal romantic suspense, originated from a local news story
about a car accident where a man helped extract the driver from the
wreckage. Everyone saw the man, yet he doesn’t appear in any of the
photos or videos taken at the scene. That last bit sparked my new
novel.
I can’t tell for
sure where the idea behind She
Never Got To Say Goodbye
came from. I
woke up one morning with the phrase, She Never
Got To Say Goodbye,
swirling around my mind. It could’ve been the remains of a dream,
it could have been something that I’ve heard somewhere, I’m not
sure. As the day went by and the words continued to hammer my
previously quiet thoughts, my writer’s mind kicked in, and as a
plot began to sprout inside my skull, involuntarily, I started to
take mental notes. By evening, I was convinced I had a contemporary
romantic thriller on my hands. I sat down, and I began
outlining parts of the brainstorm.
Once
I had everything planned—or so I thought—the words started
pouring and, almost like a spectator, I watched chapter after chapter
take shape until I realized I had killed my protagonist,
Olivia. That was
nowhere in my plan, and I found myself thinking, now
what.
For weeks, I stared at half a story that seemed to go nowhere. I set
it aside, as I usually do in these situations, intending to return to
it later, when, unexpectedly, I received the terrible news that my
father had fallen and had broken his hip. I
had not planned on taking a trip to Europe that year, yet I found
myself cramming clothes into a suitcase in a hurry. Packed and downed
by a thousand worries, I boarded the first available flight that
hauled me all the way to the other side of the continent just
before my father passed away. I had so many unanswered questions, and
I remember looking at my father’s coffin, wishing I could bring him
back, wishing he could give me the tiniest sign that he was okay,
wishing God would, at least, tell me why. Evidently, none of my
wishes were fulfilled, but slowly, a twist for my story began to take
shape in my mind. For a while, I believed it was a result of the
age-old cliché where the characters take matters into
their own hands and veer the story in
a completely different direction. Maybe it was, but there
are times when for half a second I still wonder if it was my own pain
over the loss of my father that put the twist in my story. I could
not bring my father back, but I had the power to bring Olivia—even
if only in the form of a ghost—and help her say goodbye to her baby
and find justice for her premature death.
I
love everything paranormal and for the next few months, I had a blast
placing myself into the state of mind of a confused ghost.
**SPOILER FREE**
How do you really but a book of this gratitude in words without giving away so much of what happens! This book floored me.. I didn't know what to really expect when I started reading this book! For one, it's really not in the norm for me. For two, how in the heck could anyone pass this book by! The story the characters, it will have you flipping pages. Wanting, no needing to know just what's coming next. Why, how, questions that run through your mind over and over. And then when you're done reading this book, you're left with .... WOW!! This author knows how to captivate the reader and keep them! This is a MUST READ!!!
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How do you really but a book of this gratitude in words without giving away so much of what happens! This book floored me.. I didn't know what to really expect when I started reading this book! For one, it's really not in the norm for me. For two, how in the heck could anyone pass this book by! The story the characters, it will have you flipping pages. Wanting, no needing to know just what's coming next. Why, how, questions that run through your mind over and over. And then when you're done reading this book, you're left with .... WOW!! This author knows how to captivate the reader and keep them! This is a MUST READ!!!
*Received for an honest review*
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