Seized Part 1
Seize Me Crime Fiction Series
Out March 15th, 2015
Synopsis
One
night of fun in New York City, lands news researcher, Carrie, in the middle of
the most important story of her life.
With her
friend April now abducted by armed men, Carrie immediately seeks help from the
police. There, she finds an old high school friend, Blake, working and in the
middle of a human trafficking investigation that April may have fallen prey
to.
Old friends
will have to wade through their own dark pasts and band together to rescue
April from the clutches of a sadistic ring. But, what they uncover, proves to
make their search even more desperate.
As
April's life hangs in the balance, can Carrie and Blake break through their
trust issues and find her before its too late?
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Excerpt
Carrie
Everything Blake
said washes over me, and with it, the realizations surface hard and fast. My
best friend’s uncle is a kidnapper. April is a pawn. They will probably kill
her. There’s nothing I can do. Thank God I got away, but now I may lose my best
friend forever. And lastly, how did I know nothing about this?
It all makes sense,
though. This is the reason April’s mom always kept them away from her uncle.
This is the reason she’s been acting weird, and this is what made April so
reluctant to go the club. I can’t believe she wouldn’t tell me something this
big. Maybe she didn’t know? The thoughts are endless, swirling around my head.
I don’t know where to begin, but I know one thing: there’s no way I can be
alone. No matter how much I want to.
“So, where’s your
place then?” I ask him directly, and there’s immediate relief on his face that
I’m considering it.
Blake
She’s finally
starting to unwind. I tell myself I should be keeping notes on the progress of
my witness. But who am I kidding? I’ve been watching her like a hawk from the
moment I saw her, and it has nothing to do with keeping witness notes. I’ve
done my fair share of tough assignments in this job, but this is hard in a
different way. Sticking like glue to the woman who got away.
She was the first
one to break me back then, and it sucked. One moment I’m getting up the courage
to ask her out, and the next she leaves for the entire summer and comes back
acting like I’m the fucking invisible man. Christ, we were good friends. It was
a waste. I have no idea what I did or didn’t do. She just never called again.
Women. This is why they have a bad reputation. This is why we need a manual.
Things break on the inside, and we don’t even know they need repairing before
they chew us out or take off.
Not long after it
went sour with Carrie, my mom finally snapped. She caught Dad spending money on
unsavory pussy and left him. Well, she left us all, really. Brenda and I had to
deal with his rages after that. The Wiley old bastard made sure he didn’t take
it too far because he needed us. Without Mom in the picture, he had no one to
pick on. He didn’t want to be alone with his resentments and pain. I wish we’d
had the courage to leave earlier, but we needed to hit rock bottom before we
saw there was another way.
Change is like
that. Sometimes shit needs to get utterly unbearable.
Read more of SEIZED
Part 1 on Amazon at - http://amzn.to/1L1SUF3
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