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This week's special Bonus book is Woman in Red by Eileen Goudge. Start reading the Prologue and then click on the link (below) to finish the sample. Send an email and tell me what you think. Is it a keeper? Just have to finish the book?
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Enjoy...Woman in Red
PROLOGUE
NINE YEARS AGO
"All rise!"
A rustle of movement around her, the scrape of chairs and feet. Alice was slower to react, her senses dulled, as if by blunt instrument, by two days of testimony: dry, reasoned discourses on skid patterns, blood-alcohol levels, and degree of vehicular damage in relation to bodily injury, all of which seemed to have as much to do with her son, with David, as a chalk outline on pavement with the living, breathing person brought to such a cruel end.
With her palms flat against its surface as leverage, she pushed herself up from the table at which she sat. Her lawyer, Warren Brockman, shot her a look, his gray eyes kind and concerned, and she nodded almost imperceptibly to let him know she was okay. In fact, she was anything but. The blood was draining from her head, and she felt unsteady, a faint, persistent buzzing in her ears, the muscles in her legs quivering like after a mile run.
"Lies!" she had screamed silently as her son's killer sat up there on the stand, visibly remorseful, as only an innocent man would be--or one who was going out of his way to appear so--giving his distorted version of events. She'd listened and she'd screamed in her head, biting down on the inside of her cheek until it bled to keep her mouth from flying open, her outrage from spewing out into the courtroom.
Now the jury was back with a verdict.
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