CONTRITE
BOOK ONE
What
happens when the man you’re married to isn’t the man you married
anymore? Clove Calloway knows within an hour of picking up her
husband Turner from the airport that something is different. Yet she
can't pin point what. Together since College, they know everything
about each other. So why has she spent the last few days watching
everything he does, hoping for a clue? What could have happened
within that week he was gone?
One
way or another she's going to find out.
When
Clove invests in the help of her brother Zack, a police detective,
she’s afraid her suspicions of infidelity will be confirmed.
Terrified that such news will crush her heart, she sets about
preparing for the worst.
Only
to find it's much more than she could have imagined—there is no
other woman.
Clove’s
life is about to descend into a web of deceit, lies and betrayal.
Appearances
can be deceiving… and only the Master Manipulator will be left
standing.
“The
eyes only see what the mind is prepared to comprehend.” – Henri
Bergson
REPRISAL
BOOK TWO
Clove
Calloway thought she ended her nightmare life when she stabbed
herself.
When
the darkness took over, she thought she’d find peace. Seeing her
husband die by the hands of his traitorous brother, Trent, destroyed
her. Little did she know, her dreadful life without Turner is just
the beginning. She awakens from one nightmare right into another,
confined in a house with the Master Manipulator of them all.
Now,
she's fighting for her life instead of trying to end it. As the truth
unfolds, layer upon layer of deceit could suffocate her. How many
times and in how many way can she be betrayed? But Clove refuses to
lose. Just how she's going to win is a plan she's yet to determine...
Zack
is determined to find his sister Clove, he knows she is out there
somewhere. He can feel it. He wants her home. And he is going to find
her! He’s ready to take down the evil that has her in his clutches.
Only he’s just as shocked as Clove when the truth unfolds…
There’s
more…. So much more. Are you ready?
Revenge.
I
look at the clock and realize I still have an hour left. Turner is on
a conference call, therefore I can’t ask him if he wants to skip
out a little early and get to the bar for happy hour. Reaching for my
phone, I decide to kick back and relax and maybe download some new
songs. I plug in my phone to keep it charged and start listening to
some music as I browse through the new selections.
“Clove?”
I
jump, catching sight of Zack out of my peripheral vision.
“Christ,
you scared the shit out of me!”
I
sit back in my chair with a smile on my face, placing my hand over my
heart as I slump back in my seat. I laugh, finding the situation
funny. Pulling my ear buds out, I watch my brother as he strolls in
and sits across from me at my desk. But he’s not laughing or
smiling.
“There’s
something wrong,” I say in a strangled voice.
“Yeah,
there is.”
“Is
. . .?”
I
start crying and can’t seem to get any words to come out. My chest
starts heaving and I hold onto the edge of my desk, my knuckles snow
white from my tight grip.
“Is
he cheating on me?”
“It’s
worse. Much worse.”
The
way he looks at me tells me whatever his news is, it’s going to rip
me to shreds.
“Wha-what
is it?” I can barely choke the words out.
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