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2012 the year of so many predictions and changes. Although the dramatic end of the world didn’t happen I do think there were some profound changes. For me 2012 was a big leap year. I made a number of changes in my life and I finally made the push to do something with my writing.

It sounds so simple, I did something with my writing. Big deal. Well I can tell you it was a big deal. I have been writing for a very long time. Over the years, I did all the things I needed to, to improve my writing – courses, critique groups, writing and more writing, getting feedback from others – and yet I still felt that it wasn’t good enough. If I put it out there for the public, yikes! What were people going to think? What if they didn’t like it? What was I thinking to even contemplate doing it?

Fear is an interesting thing because we turn it into an almost impossible thing to overcome. We keep coming up with excuses why we can’t do something. I know I did. I had every reason why my writing wasn’t going anywhere.
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Chapter One

She opened her eyes. Or at least she thought she had. That was her intention. But everything was black. Maybe it was still dark out. She tried again. This time there was a fuzzy blur… a shadow… a stray bit of light… and a voice. But as quick as it all came, it left.

Sometime later she became aware of sounds and sensations. Everything was still dark. She had no sense of who she was or where she was. There was a sensation of being but not of knowing anything else. It was just blank. Something brushed over her body; it was light, delicate really but something she had no real idea as to what it was or where it was coming from. She recoiled inside, pulling back, trying to shrink more into the deep, dark hole that seemed to be her companion. Fear was like a living, breathing monster wrapping her in its cloak; capturing her in a web she felt helpless to get out of.

A very distant part of her brain screamed at her, to get the hell away… to move… to do something… but it was so far away, so faint. She could feel the desperation but could barely grasp what it was telling her to do… or why. She tried to wade through the enveloping darkness to reach it. But she couldn’t move. She was trapped in a tiny black cave with nowhere to go… nowhere to hide… with nothing to see. The panic which had been so remote a moment ago was suddenly all there was. The harder she fought it, the more she fell down the dark well. She had no sensation of self, no meaning of who she was. There was heaviness but she didn’t know anything beyond the little gloomy hole that she seemed to inhabit.

She made a sound. Or at least she thought it came from her but when she couldn’t repeat it, she wasn’t sure. Something moved, maybe even touched her. She couldn’t be certain. There was a tiny sense of pain but then it receded, taking the anxiousness with it… and then there was nothing.
Sounds filtered into her little world.

“Now… do it.”

“She’s…”

Only snippets of their words drifted into her consciousness. She wanted to ask what the two men were talking about. Who they were talking about? And where was she? Who she was?

She felt a gentle breeze waft over her, a strange sensation like it wasn’t happening to her. She wanted to call out but remembered that the last time she’d made a sound or tried to, everything had disappeared. This time she kept quiet. She waited. Slowly more things started to come to her.

She was laying spread eagled on a bed. At least that was her assumption as it was something soft and cushiony, anyway and she felt exposed. Cool air brushed over her skin...
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Hi. I'm doing a cover reveal today for Deceitful Truths, organized by Girls Heart Book Tours.



Blurb-
He created a legacy that no one could imagine...
Tarin has lost a week of her life. She doesn't know what happened but not long after she returns to work she is suspended from her job. Confused and pregnant, she quits and agrees to marry Stephen, only to be thrown into a whole new nightmare. Desperate, she grabs her son and moves across the country to get away from her abusive husband and to avoid her unforgiving father. Thrilled at getting the job at Knights Associates, where she'll help them solve cyber crimes but also be able to use their connections and resources to find her own answers. Who stole a week of her life? And will they return to steal the secret she is now protecting?
Graham and his partner Guy, can't keep up with the demand. They are being flooded with requests at Knights Associates, where they offer a combined service of private investigator and that of solving cyber crimes. It appears that someone wants to get their attention as not only have they been hacked but Guy's family business, Caspian Winery, seems to be under attack as well. Hiring an assistant seems to be the answer but when Graham discovers she's been accessing their high-security accounts, he realizes the cause of their predicament might be closer then he thought. Is there new assistant behind the problems they're having? If she's so innocent why does someone want to abduct her?
Tarin and Graham discover that although they don't trust each other, they are forced to work together to solve several seemingly unrelated crimes that may lead to one disastrous conclusion. Can they figure it all out before Tarin's nightmare plays out? An eighty year old woman pays with her life? Or before Tarin learns a truth that may seal her fate and be the one secret that will keep her and Graham apart as neither one of them may be able to forgive or forget...
(Standalone but is a Sequel/Companion Novel to Captured Lies)

What do you think of the cover?
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