About
the Book
Title:
In The Prison of Our Grief
Author:
S.E. Amadis
Genre:
Action Thriller
A harsh prison in England.
The grisly, tragic murder of three babies.
Will she be able to find out the truth in time? Or
will she become this sadistic murderess' next victim?
Once
again, Carrie Anne finds herself in the centre of another terrifying
ordeal...
In this exciting sequel to Patricia,
we follow seventeen-year-old Carrie Anne Houghton and her new
comrades-in-arms in a whirling,
dizzying, action-packed adventure that
spans two continents, from the glitzy high-rises of New York City to
the lonely expanses of rural Canada to the glamour and colour of
Mediterranean tourist resorts.
Persecution, murder, lies and deceit. Traps,
stormy Gothic settings, abandoned mansions and secret passageways.
All of this comes to vivid life in the pages of In
the Prison of our Grief.
A gripping, fast-paced, action-packed thriller
featuring a strong female protagonist and a quirky male counterpart.
This book can be read as a standalone.
Author
Bio
I could never write about a happy, conventional
couple living in a happy, conventional, suburban neighbourhood with
two cars and one and a half children, a dog and a pet bird, working
at happy, conventional, uneventful jobs.
My heroes and heroines have to walk through fire
(or rather, crawl through fire), get strangled, beaten, shot at,
drowned, poisoned, get caught in tornados or earthquakes or get
attacked by mutant gnats. Or,
they have to strangle, beat, shoot, drown and poison other people.
A story with anything less than these dramatic,
hair-raising elements was always too boring for me to even consider
telling.
I believe in magic. I believe that the world is
full of mystery, and that there are more things in heaven and earth
than could ever be dreamt of in our conventional, logic-based
philosophies.
Outside of that, as a dry, mundane list of facts
about me, I’m a single parent from a village near Montreal, Canada,
who now enjoys the freaking great good fortune to live happily with
my two sons on the almost-tropical south coast of Spain, basking in
summer eight months of the year. Typical activities include running a
marathon with the kids to school every morning and cooking frequently
for an Always Hungry teenaged son with four stomachs.
Links
Author
website: www.SEAmadis.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/seamadis/
Twitter:
@seramadis
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I yelped, snatched my arm away from him
instinctively. The knife blade drove into the floorboards beside me
and my captor burst into crazed laughter.
“You do
know how they mutilated my sweet Agate,” he said, and a shudder of
sadness trembled through him. “Of course you do. God, I can’t
stand to think of these things. I don’t want to remember.”
He glared at me with fiery eyes.
“But for you
I will make that sacrifice. For you
I will remember. Just so you can pay.”
He passed the flat part of his blade along the
wound in my arm, flipping it first on one side, then the other,
almost as if he were cleaning it out on my grimy sleeve.
“I always wondered why you chose to cut her
arm.” He raised his gaze and stared deep into mine. “And why
mutilate her?” He took a deep breath. “If you wanted her dead,
why didn’t you just kill her? Deal that final blow in one merciful
instant. Why did you torture her? Are you a sadist? Do you get off
inflicting pain on babies,
for shit’s sake?”
I blinked. I had no idea how to answer him. Deep
inside I was longing to defend myself, but horror made me mute.
“I-I didn’t do it,” I whispered in as loud a
voice as I could. My throat felt closed off and dry, and it was all I
could do to force out even the slightest sound. Tears welled from my
eyes, poured out onto my cheeks. “I didn’t do it,” I whispered
again. “You’re making a mistake...”
Mr. Walsh froze, his calm gaze resting on me
almost as if he were a friend. He glanced down, at the knife in his
hand, at my slender wrist pulsating with terror and dread at every
heartbeat. Tears streamed freely down my face now. He reached out a
finger and caught a tear on the tip of his finger. Studied the
droplet as if suddenly filled with compassion.
“Are these... tears of... remorse,
because you’re sorry for what you did, Carola?” he hissed. “Or...
are you crying because... you’re scared of what I’m going to do
to you?” His face twisted up. “Do you think Agatha was scared of
you, when you did those... horrors...
to her? Do you think she cried, and screamed in vain for someone to
come and save her? Do you think she died filled with agony, believing
at the very last moment of her life that no one cared about her or
loved her enough to come to her rescue?”
He drew the blade against my wound, pressing
harder this time. A thin spot of blood welled up, blended with the
filth on my sleeve.
“Yes. You couldn’t cut through the bone,
because that blunt kitchen knife simply wasn’t up to the task. But
you did
cut her flesh all the way down to the bone. You tortured
her.”
He posed the sharp edge of his knife over the
wound in my arm, studied the angle the way a butcher studies his
prime cuts.
“And that’s exactly what I’m going to do to
you...”
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