Dark Brew
By Diana Rubino
Publisher: The Wild
Rose Press
Genre: Time Travel Romance
Two months in the spotlight
change Kylah McKinley’s life forever. Falsely accused of murdering her husband
Ted, she learns through past life regressions that she’s the reincarnation of
Alice Kyteler, a Druid who lived in 14th century Ireland. Major events in her
life parallel Alice’s.
Someone tried to kill Kylah
along with Ted in a hit-and-run. Who can hate them both this much? Her journeys
to the past as Alice give her the answer.
As Kylah’s trial date
approaches and she fights to maintain her innocence, she must learn from her
past or forever be doomed to repeat it.
Kylah shut Ted’s den door. She
couldn’t bear to look at the spot where he gasped his last breath. His
presence, an imposing force, lingered. So did his scent, a blend of tobacco,
pine aftershave and manly sweat. Each reminder ripped into her heart like a
knife. Especially now with the funeral looming ahead, the eulogies, the
mournful organ hymns, the tolling bells . . .
These ceremonies should bring
closure, but they’d only prolong the agony of her grief. She wanted to remember
him alive for a while longer, wishing she could delay these morbid customs
until the hurt subsided.
Throughout the house, his
essence echoed his personality: the wine stain on the carpet, the heap of dirty
shirts, shorts and socks piled up in the laundry room, the spattered stove, his
fingerprints on the microwave. But she couldn’t bring herself to clean any of
it up. Painful as these remnants were, they offered a strange comfort. He still
lived here.
“I’ll find that murderer,
Teddy,” she promised him over and over, wandering from room to empty room,
traces of him lurking in every corner. “I’ll do everything in my power to make
sure justice is served. Another past life regression isn’t enough anymore. I
know what I have to do now. And I promise, it will never, ever happen again—in
any future life.”
She inhaled deeply and breathed
him in. “Go take a shower, Teddy.” She chuckled through her tears as the
doorbell rang. She cringed, breaking out in cold sweat when she saw the black
sedan at the curb.
“Not again.” No sense in
hiding, so she let the detectives in.
“Mrs. McKinley, we need your
permission to do a search and take some of your husband’s possessions from the
house,” Nolan said.
“What for?” She met his steely
stare. “I looked everywhere and found nothing.”
“Mrs. McKinley, the cupboard
door was open, four jars of herbs are missing, and the autopsy showed he died
of herb poisoning. Those herbs,” Nolan added for emphasis, as if it had slipped
her feeble mind. “Foxglove, mandrake, hemlock—and an as-yet unidentified one,”
he read from a notebook. “The M.E. determined it was a lethal dose.”
Sherlock Holmes got nothin’ on
him, she thought.
“Where’s this cupboard, ma’am?”
Egan spoke up.
“Right there.” She pointed, its
door gaping exactly the way she’d found it that night. Nolan went over to it
and peered inside.
“Ma’am, it would be better if
you left the house for a half hour or so. Please leave a number where you can
be reached,” Egan ordered.
Nolan glanced down the hall.
“Where is your bedroom?”
What could they want in the
bedroom? “It’s at the top of the stairs on the right. But we didn’t sleep
together,” she offered, as if that would faze them. It didn’t.
After giving him her cell
number, she got into her car and drove to the beach.
An hour later, she let herself
back in and looked around. They’d taken the computer, her case of CDs, her
thumb drive, her remaining herb jars, Ted’s notebooks, and left her alone with
one horrible fact: This was now a homicide case and she was the prime suspect.
Diana’s passion for history and
travel has taken her to every locale of her stories, set in Medieval and Renaissance
England, Egypt, the Mediterranean, colonial Virginia, New England, and New
York. Her urban fantasy romance, FAKIN’ IT, won a Top Pick award from Romantic
Times. She is a member of Romance Writers of America, the Richard III Society
and the Aaron Burr Association. She lives on Cape Cod with her husband Chris.
Together they own CostPro, Inc., an engineering business. In her spare time,
Diana bicycles, golfs, plays her piano and devours books of any genre.
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