Book Blurb
for Echoes of the Past:
Born Mohawk, raised white,
forensic pathologist, Michelle Thomas is trapped between two worlds—this one
and the spirit world where the ghosts of those who’ve drowned speak to her.
Haunted by crippling nightmares of her own drowning death and erotic dreams of
a phantom lover, she strives to make sense of her life. When two suspicious
deaths occur at the Lake of the Mountain Resort, she’s sent to investigate.
She’ll face the greatest challenge of her career when her past and her present
collide.
One of these men is her future, but which one—the rich and powerful
Mayor Ron Davies, or Tony Steele, the hydrology professor who may be
responsible for his students’ deaths? Charged by the spirits of her Mohawk
ancestors to atone for her previous sins by protecting Lake of the Gods, can
Michelle solve the murders, save the sacred waters, and fulfil her destiny?
Release
Date July 11, 2014
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EXCERPT:
Naked, she lies on her back inside the green, leafy grotto, which
meshes seamlessly into the landscape. It’s late morning, and after last night’s
storm, everything smells clean and fresh. She stares up at the man she loves,
but darkness and his long, honey-brown hair shadow his face. Her body hums in
anticipation of his touch. Her nipples harden. His large, calloused hands
caress her, and where they touch, her flesh burns with desire.
He runs the fingers of one hand through her unbraided hair. His lips
capture hers in a searing kiss, branding her his. She reaches up to him. She
opens her mouth, and a deep moan escapes her as his lips meet hers.
The scene changes. He runs along the edge of the forest across the
lake. Run, my love, she screams silently as all around her the women urge their
men to hurry, pointing at him, screaming instructions. He stops, and once she
knows he’s seen her, she turns away. They’ll catch him, and she can’t bear to
watch him be killed. She pulls her marriage blanket tightly around her
shoulders. Everyone thinks she’s made it for another. Sobbing, she hurries away
from the beach…
Michelle Thomas awoke in tears as
she had so many nights since arriving in Thunder Bay. Bathed in sweat, she
shivered with need and a bone-deep cold invaded her body. The nightmares,
usually terrifying, realistic visions of her watery death, exhausted her.
Recently the dreams which had plagued her most of her life had changed, and
these new ones in which she was both participant and witness, frustrated and
grieved her. She preferred those old night terrors to these out of body erotic
fantasies with a man whose face she never saw, but loved with every ounce of
her being. Tonight, the thought of his capture and death made the pain of loss
worse than ever. How could she go on like this?
Her wild weeping slowed to
sobbing. She got out of bed and padded into the motel room’s washroom. She
turned on the light and gasped at the mirror’s reflection. The face of a woman
who closely resembled her—the Mohawk woman in braids she’d been seeing off and
on for weeks now—glared accusingly at her.
“What do you want from me?” She
yelled at the face in the mirror, anguish loud in her tear-filled voice.
“You’re dead. He’s dead. I don’t have any answers for you. Go away. Leave me in
peace.”
About the author:
Susanne Matthews was born and raised in Cornwall, Ontario, Canada. She’s always been an avid reader of
all types of books, but always with a penchant for happily ever after romances.
In her imagination, she travelled to foreign lands, past and present, and
soared into the future. Today, gets to spend her time writing, so she can share
her adventures with her readers. She loves the ins and outs of romance, and the
complex journey it takes to get from the first word to the last period of a
novel. As she writes, her characters take on a life of their own, and she
shares their fears and agonies on the road to self-discovery and love.
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