Tag: Suspense novel

  • The Enemy Pursuit

    (clicking the cursor over the title reveals the total text) With the last of her physical reserves, knowing how unlikely it was that she could outrun full-grown men, Hattie ducked and wove through the tangled woods, her muscles on fire as she ran. Perhaps not the speedy girl she once had been, she still had […]

  • Twisted Wishes 12/11/23

    Hattie’s nemesis is redoubling her efforts to create havoc in Hattie’s life. Marie Chennault had decided, even before she hoodwinked the Ellis Island immigration authorities into allowing her refugee status in the United States, that she would make Hattie suffer for telling the French military that Marie–and her husband–were German sympathizers who had insinuated themselves […]

  • TWISTED WISHES

    (Hattie DeValcourt Is On A Mission) War had caught up to her—personal now, abstract no longer—and she was so exhausted she couldn’t move.   Bright sunlight, incongruous under these circumstances, streamed through the forest canopy, its rays stopped by the dead and decaying leaves scattered across the mosses mounding on the ground. She would’ve enjoyed […]

  • Getting There

    Don’t let anyone kid you – there’s a lot more to becoming a published author than simply putting words onto a page! Announcing the novel KEEP ME SAFE and completing Bellamy Gayle as a WordPress site have been lengthy projects, maybe because it’s the first time I’ve reached this far in the publication process and […]