Blurb-
Angela Martin is like everyone else. She wants acceptance. Love. Passion.
For five years she’s lived with the pain of knowing her husband cheats on her. She’s dealt with the heart-rending rejection by rebuilding her life around her work, becoming the first woman detective in the history of the Moose Creek, N.C., police department.
Then she stumbles upon him. A man who reawakens desire, who makes her feel more alive than she believed possible by pulling her into a world of bondage and dominance, devotion and trust taken to a new level, fear mingling with desire, a craving stronger than any drug.
Soon women start turning up dead in Moose Creek, bound and tortured, tied in ways that Angela finds startling familiar. Angela’s heart tells her that her newfound love cannot be the killer, her detective instincts tell her otherwise, and her obsession with this new lifestyle draws her back to him, even at the risk of her life.
LETHAL OBSESSION is a tale of sex and bondage, love and fear, desire and suspicion, with an ending that will leave you breathless, craving more.
Excerpt-
It was
late Friday afternoon when Angela walked into the chief’s office. Two days had
passed since the second victim was found, since Angela had blacked out and
fallen onto the body. For those two days Angela had been off the case, on
mandatory sick leave until Chief Suggs was satisfied she was fit for duty. He
had arranged for a full physical the day after her blackout, and called her in
this afternoon to discuss the findings.
Or so she
thought.
“Chief,”
she said as she stepped through the open doorway.
“Close the
door Angela.”
Fear
welled in the pit of her stomach. This can’t be good. She did as he asked, then
took a seat when he motioned towards the chair. The chief leaned over his desk,
pulled a paper from a file folder and looked at it. From the back Angela could
tell it was a picture of some sort. .
“Buddy of
mine at the state lab called me a little while ago,” he said.
“He find
something important?” Angela fought to keep her voice steady.
“You tell
me.” He put the photograph on the desktop and pushed it toward Angela. She
didn’t pick it up – even viewing the photograph upside down, she knew at first
glance - a still shot taken from a surveillance camera. A picture of Angela,
slipping from a hotel room, the time stamp showing she exited the second-floor
room on the back side of Moose Creek Motor Inn at the same time her colleagues
were surveying the latest murder scene - on the first floor of at at the same
time her colleagues were surveying the latest murder scene – on the first floor
of the front side of the same hotel. Angela's body turned cold, her skin
clammy. Her mind was blank.
“Can you
explain this?”
Angela
opened her mouth. Nothing came out. Her heart hammered inside her chest, and
she focused on that, on slowing her pulse. Her mind refused to address the
photo. They sat in silence for several minutes.
“Detective,
I’m going to need an explanation.”
Angela
slumped in her chair. “I…I don’t know what to say.”
“Start
with telling me why you were caught on this footage, what you were doing there
when that woman was killed, and most importantly why didn't I learn about this
from you?"
“Chief,
I…” Her mind went blank .... Angela stood and paced the office. “Chief, I
screwed up. I didn’t compromise the case. What I did there …” her voice
faltered. She knew what happened to her
very well could relate to the investigation. “…had nothing to do with the
case.”
“Everyone
in that hotel has to be questioned, checked, and double-checked. Angela's, I
don't want to pry, but we need to interview the guy you were with."
Angela’s
stomach tightened. She felt as if she would throw up.
“He’s not
a suspect,” she said, voice little more than a whisper.
“Everyone
is.”
“He was
with me when the call came, you don’t need to talk with him.”
“Coroner
puts the time of death between ten that morning and noon. The call came in at
twelve-eighteen; the first officers were on the scene at twelve twenty-four. I
know you were here until eleven forty-five. That leaves a couple of hours where
your…friend…is unaccounted for.”
I was with
a killer.
The
thought rammed through Angela so hard she almost gasped. She felt dizzy.
“Angela?”
She shook
her head.
“Detective,
that’s not a request. I am ordering you to divulge his identity.”
“I…don’t
know.”
Angela
bowed her head, gaze on the floor. The room was beginning to spin, and Angela
thought for a moment that was appropriate, given that her life was about to
spin out of control.
“Detective,
I don’t really want to get into any details here, nothing more than the case
requires. And I’ll keep as much out of the public arena as possible, but you
have to explain what’s going on. You didn’t know the guy?”
She closed
her eyes, leaned back until her head rested on the wall behind the chair. “She
opened her eyes, stared directly at the chief. “I met him online."
“I need to
know who this guy is.”
“I don’t
know.”
“Describe
him for me. We’ll use that to find him.”
Angela
leaned over, propped her elbows on her thighs and buried her face in her
hands.“I don’t know what he looks like.”
She heard
a heavy sigh.
“Chief,
I…we…I had an itch to experiment…I was blindfolded the whole time.”
“Jesus
Christ,” the chief said, his voice cracking as he did. “Next thing you’re going
to tell me is he had you trussed up like a damn turkey.”
Angela
looked up from her hands.
“God damn,” the chief
whispered
Meet Shandra Miller
Shandra is a mid-western gal who left home at 16 and never looked back. Eventually she made her way to Florida, worked for three years as a carnie and another three with a circus--yes, a real, live, honest-to god-circus. Traveled all through the south and the Mid-Atlantic, town to town, on the road eight months at a time.
Now she's a small-town office girl, filling papers, making coffee, and dreaming of being free. She doesn't own a cell phone or a TV, she takes long walks at night, lies in the grass in the day time and watches the clouds go by, and she writes erotica and mystery. dripping with lust,sex and suspense.
LETHAL OBSESSION is her debut novel. Her short stories PRIVATE DINNING and ROOM SERVICE, both part of the TIDES INN EROTIC TALES series; and JENNIFER LOST and JENNIFER BOUND (part of the Ville D'Esclavage TALES) are all available on Amazon.com.
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