He set the bag on the table and pulled out my tennis racket.
I thought I’d misplaced it all these months. I gave him a quizzical look.
“Your racket’s needed to be restrung for a long time. I finally got around to getting it done.” He handed me the familiar worn grip of my Prince racket. I accepted it and laid it on the table, staring at him in surprise.
“I forgive you, Suze.”
That was all I needed to hear.
EPILOGUE
I tucked a copy of my finalized divorce papers into an envelope, addressed the front, and placed enough stamps on it for postage to Mexico.
I glanced at the name on the front, “Mercedes Ruiz,” and hoped that her parents would get it to her. Wherever she was.
I thought of the picture of Ariana in Joaquin’s office—the smiling, pretty girl with eyes so much like her father’s. She deserved better.
But maybe this will help, I thought, carrying the letter out to the mailbox. For on those finalized divorce papers was Joaquin’s new address in Cancún. He thought he had been so clever, trying to get away from Ariana and his responsibilities, I thought to myself, as I lifted the red flag on the side of the mailbox.
“Time for dinner!” called out James, his head peeking out from our front door.
“I’m coming,” I called out, giving one last glance at the mailbox. Then, smiling to myself, I followed James into our house and shut the door behind me.
About the Author
K. J. Gillenwater survived life as a military linguist and a technical writer before pursuing her dreams to become the novelist she’d wanted to be since grade school. She writes what she loves: suspense and romance. When she isn’t writing, K. J. loves to watch way too much T.V., bake, hang out with her family and enjoy the view from her front porch.
If you enjoyed this book, K. J. Gillenwater is the author of three paranormal suspense books, which are available in print and in ebook format through Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
The Ninth Curse
His blood for a cure. It’s a cruel and deadly bargain…
Nine curses. Nine weeks to live. Joel Hatcher has inherited more than a family legacy. It’s a time bomb that’s ticking down to the inevitable: his own death. But the curse won’t die with him. Unless he can find a way to break the cycle, his younger brother becomes the next victim.
In the throes of the third curse, the Painful Pox, Joel makes a last-ditch decision to seek the help of a young spiritualist.
One look into Joel’s suffering eyes, and “Madame Eugenie” finds herself torn between doing the right thing and fulfilling her most secret wish—bring her husband Adam back from the dead. Joel’s cursed blood is the missing ingredient in her resurrection rituals, and Adam’s spirit whispers seductively that there’s only one way to get it: steal it.
As Gen and Joel unearth his family’s past to track down a cure, they come closer to each other, and to a horrible truth. To live, Joel must lose everything. Up to and including the woman he has grown to love.
Warning: This book contains curses, sacrifices, a ghostly husband, a crazy cat and a love that defies all odds.
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The Little Black Box
After the suspicious suicides of several student test subjects, Paula Crenshaw, research assistant and budding telekinetic in Paranormal Sciences at Blackridge University, suspects they may be connected to a little black box designed to read auras. Professor Jonas Pritchard, the head of the department, doesn't believe his precious experiment could be causing students to drop like flies. But when her best friend almost dies after her encounter with the black box, Paula is certain there is a connection. She pulls her cute, but sloppy, office buddy, Will Littlejohn, into the mystery, and they get closer to the truth behind who might be financially backing the project and why. Haunted by memories of a childhood accident, which she believes she caused with her untamed psychic abilities, Paula finds herself lured to the black box and its mysteries.
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Blood Moon
Werewolves are roaming Northeast High, and Savannah Black is determined to hunt them down.
When Savannah's academic rival mysteriously disappears, she enlists the aid of her two best friends, Dina and Nick, to solve the mystery. Football players with glowing eyes and razor sharp canine teeth may have fooled the faculty, but not Savannah and her friends. These brave students are determined to eradicate a clan of deadly werewolves who threaten to take over their school.
When Dina disappears right before the big Homecoming Dance, Savannah and Nick must act quickly to save her from the werewolf's curse. But will a straight-A student be able to master knives and silver bullets as easily as chemistry and calculus?
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