Please welcome Mary Abshire to The Mystique!
Immortal Revenge
By Mary Abshire
Genre: Urban
fantasy
Pages: 288
Isbn: 9781616504939
Blurb
Grief stricken
Katie Dillinger is on a mission to claim revenge for the death of her lover. In
a race against time to find the murderer, Katie reaches out to Riker, a man listed
as her boyfriend’s emergency contact. The cold-hearted man comes to Katie’s
aid, but she doesn’t completely trust him. To keep her friends safe, she
insists they leave town immediately. But her efforts come too late. A friend
disappears and a clear message is left in the wake: surrender or more people
will die.
Katie’s world is
turned upside down when she discovers Riker has vowed to protect her. She’s
involved in a prophecy, one which her lover had been preparing her for before
his murder. All the combat training he gave her suddenly makes sense, and as
Katie fights to keep her friends alive, she’s forced to prioritize. Revenge
now, saving mankind next.
Excerpt
Ravenous flames
devoured the headless body pinned to the makeshift cross in the front yard.
Katie stared, frozen in shock as she sat in her car. Chills shot down her
spine. Her gut instinct told her the body burning was her boyfriend, her lover
for the last nine years.
Smoke drifted
into the car from the vents. One breath triggered bile to rise in her throat.
She shoved the door open and bent. Her dinner came out in a mad gush, flying
onto the driveway. Tears streamed down her cheeks while her stomach muscles
tightened. More of the disgusting fluid rocketed up to her mouth. Pain and
heartache overwhelmed her mind, body and soul. He was gone. Forever. He’d said
the word countless times over the years. The meaning of the word never hit
home, until now.
Sirens screamed
through the night, moving closer by the second. The irritating sound intensified
the deep throb in her head. She vomited again, unable to control the spasms.
Through the thick smoke, she smelled gasoline. Oh God, they’d poured it on him
to make sure he couldn’t survive. As if decapitation wasn’t enough.
Bright lights
flashed in the darkness as they headed toward her. She’d stopped in the middle
of the long driveway, not far from the burning cross holding her lover. Two
police cruisers rushed from the road and came to a stop behind her car. Large
fire engines blaring their horns passed them and her vehicle. They drove by so
fast her vehicle swayed slightly.
“Katie?” Officer
Hildebrand asked. She recognized his voice from having served him drinks at the
bar every Friday night when he was off duty. “Katie, are you all right?”
She wiped her
mouth with the back of her hand as she watched him jog toward her. He passed
her and stopped a few feet in front of her car.
“Holy mother of…”
He directed his gaze to the burning cross. “Is that a body?”
Another violent
spasm hit her stomach. Teeth clenched and lips tight together, she held the
urge to barf again, but she couldn’t stop the flood of tears pouring from her
eyes.
“Ben, would you
stop looking at it and help her out,” Officer Charles Donahue said, walking
toward them. His deep smoker’s voice identified him anywhere.
“Katie!” Officer
Hildebrand blurted out as if he’d forgotten about her. He rushed toward her and
stopped short where her dinner lay on the ground. “Are you all right? Did
someone hurt you?”
Unable to speak,
she shook her head. Grief stabbed her in the heart. Why? How? Who? Something
such as this shouldn’t have happened.
Officer Donahue
stopped a few feet to the side of her door and took off his hat. His white hair
gleamed thanks to the bright flames. He stared at the sight on the front yard.
“My God.”
Officer Ben
reached across the circle of puke and placed his hand on her shoulder. “Are you
injured? Do you need medical attention?”
She shook her
head again as more tears ran from her eyes. Gone. Kyle was gone. How could this
happen? The question repeated in her mind.
“Ben, why don’t
you drive her back to the station?” Officer Charles said. “I’ll take her car
and meet you back there in a few minutes.” He placed his hat back on his head
and straightened it.
“Katie, would you
like to come with me?” Ben asked softly, as if he were a parent speaking to a
young child.
Katie
straightened her tense body. From the gap between the car door and the front
windshield, she stared at Kyle’s farmhouse. Large flames leaped toward the sky
and consumed the structure. Firemen carrying long hoses ran toward her home,
but kept a distance. Clearly they couldn’t save it. God, so many memories. So
much passionate love shared. So much laughter and happiness occurred within the
walls.
“Come on,” Ben
said, wrapping his fingers around her arm.
She grabbed her
purse sitting in the passenger seat. Leaving the keys in the ignition and the
car running, she slowly rose and avoided the disgusting mess on the ground.
Ben kept his hand
on her arm while he escorted her toward his vehicle. She walked with her head
up and as much poise as she could gather, but her heart ached fiercely. More
tears escaped her eyes. Everything she owned and ever cared about was gone. She
had nowhere to go.
Ben helped her
into the passenger side of the police cruiser, opening the door and closing it
once she was situated inside. Katie’s lip quivered as she stared ahead at the
bright flames devouring the home she’d known for the last eight years and the
one man on earth she’d loved. He was invincible, a fighter to the end. He was
strong, smart, experienced, a teacher and lover at heart. He was also immortal.
About the Author
Mary lives in
Indiana and is a lifetime lover of the paranormal, sci-fi, and fantasy. When
she's not slaving away at her government job, she is a Paranormal Romance and
Urban Fantasy Author. She creates fantastical worlds with vampires, demons,
werewolves, and other supernatural creatures. Dive into her books and find
action, a dash of mystery, and seductive men with passionate hearts.
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Other: http://lyricalpress.com/immortal-revenge/
Contact Links
Website: http://www.mary-abshire.com
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