by Elmer Seward
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GENRE: Suspense
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Deena
is running from a dangerous past. When
she finds herself in a small fishing village tucked away on the banks of the
Chesapeake Bay, she thinks she is finally safe. While there, she discovers a
journal that weaves a story of secrets, passion, and unrequited love. In its pages, she discovers the answers to
her struggle with the shadows of her own past.
In the end, those shadows close in on her and threaten all that she
holds dear.
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NOTE: The book is on sale
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Excerpt:
I am one of the walking dead. Not as lucky as those
flesh-eating monsters that roam the earth eternally. No, my flesh-eating
monster lives within. It roams at will, minute by minute. Consuming me from the
inside. Stealing what little life is left. My monster? The Big C. Advanced
stages. No treatment. What do you do when you’re a nobody from a little nowhere
town who’s accomplished nothing and has no family? What do you do when you’re
told to “put your affairs in order” and you have no affairs? What do you do
when the sum and total of your legacy is secrets and lies?
I can still see it as if it were yesterday. Pastor Tompkins
at the pulpit. A warm summer Sunday. A packed house of mostly drowsy
parishioners. His fist hammered the pulpit. “And Jesus declared, ‘The truth
will set you free.’” People amening and nodding in agreement. My father
nodding, mostly from exhaustion. Church was his nap time. Pastor Tompkins
wasn’t known for his stirring sermons, but all the thumping on the pulpit that
day caught my dad and a few others between peace in God and peaceful sleep.
As a teenage boy, I didn’t spend much time listening in
church. If Pastor Tompkins was right and God’s elect were “long-suffering,” I
figured I had a special place in heaven just from sitting through his sermons.
Usually I entertained myself by watching other people. There was Miss Jessup,
an old spinster, who snuck romance novels into the service and read with the
book hidden in the hymnal. Or Mr. Wilmar, a failed artist who now stocked
shelves in the grocery store. He pretended to take notes during the services,
his head nodding in agreement and his pencil moving quickly in his notebook. He
sat in the pew in front of me and I would catch glimpses of his notes. He would
sketch unflattering caricatures of the good pastor. Once in a while, they’d
make brief appearances on the church bulletin board until they were discovered
and removed. But during my senior year of high school, I mostly spent my time
studying the profile of a sixteen-year-old girl who sat with her father two
rows up and across the aisle. She had soft flowing curls that cascaded over her
shoulders and glowed in the sunlight that streamed through the stained-glass
windows. Sometimes she’d glance back and catch me watching. When she did, I’d
snap my attention to the pulpit and pretend to be listening. I hoped she didn’t
notice the color rising in my face. Her first day in church, her father caught
her glancing toward me. There in church, I saw her wilt in the heat of his
glare.
That’s why I remember that particular sermon. It was the
irony of it all. Truth, lies, and secrets. In a small town, there are only two
types of secrets: the ones everybody knows and the ones everybody will soon
know. The not-too-well-kept secret was that her daddy was a mean drunk. The
adults all knew it, and it wasn’t long before I knew it too. I still cringe at
what that glare would mean for her.
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A well written thought out plot that captivates you and then draws you further in with the characters... can be a touchy topic within the pages but will have you yet turning them as fast as you finish the last. You will find yourself ignoring the world around as you set on edge to keep up with one thing after another. A book you diffidently want to read!
Elmer Seward
was born and raised along the Chesapeake Bay in southeast Virginia. Growing up, the cemetery behind his house was
his playground. The metaphorical theme
of death and rebirth that figures prominently in his novels is probably
influenced in some way by the time that his mother heard, through the screened
window, a small voice crying for help.
Rushing from the house and through the yard, she discovered her
all-too-curious six-year-old son at the bottom of a freshly dug grave. In that moment, he discovered that trouble is
much easier to get into than it is to get out of. Sometimes we need help getting out of the
hole that we jump into willingly.
He is blessed
to have a large blended family and is the reluctant servant of three crazy
dogs, a Maltese, a Japanese Chin, and a BruMaltChiYorkie. All of these strongly influence the
characters and events in his novels; however, his beautiful wife, Mitzi, is the
true inspiration for the tender hearted but determined women in his stories.
Set You Free is
Elmer’s third novel. His previous novels are Hearts in the Storm and Dreams of
the Sleepless.
Author website
– www.elmerseward.com
Facebook page -
https://www.facebook.com/ElmerSewardAuthor/
Twitter -
@elmerseward2
Books available
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