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Ben is an undercover who is tasked to eliminate targets in the war against terror. When he receives his brother’s email, he’s furious that Alex has dared to ask him for help. Their rocky relationship was due to a family trauma when they were both young. The each dealt with it in different ways: Alex stayed close to home and devoted himself to his parents and Ben dropped out of college and enrolled in the military.
Ben returns to his boyhood home and provides protection to Alex and Sarah Hosseini, a legal associate. Several “agencies” have an interest in the encryption program, and will stop at nothing to prevent the patent from going through.
FAULT LINE is a fast-paced, action-packed thriller. The character development is very strong, we learn more and more about Ben and Alex in each passing chapter. There are several underlying story lines that all wind together to wrap up an amazing book! This book is guaranteed to grab your attention from page one! I was a little overwhelmed with all the talk of technology in the first few chapters, but once the pace of the storyline quickened, I wasn’t able to put this book down!
About the Author:
I did a book signing at Barnes and Noble last Saturday and someone said the kindest thing to me, She said, “you’re so talented. I love to read but I could never write.” I didn’t know what to say other than thank you, of course – but her compliment danced inside my head for a while.
My mind took me on a little exploration through the thought. I thought about my oldest son, who hates writing. It’s curious, I thought. He hates building a story. He can build a computer out of some boxes and wires I swear it, but he hates building a story. I, on the other hand, can spend all day uploading my thoughts onto the computer, and get lost in my love of it – but I wouldn’t dare ruin it by considering what it takes to make a “p” appear on the screen when I type “p” on the keyboard.
From there my thoughts carried me into my own childhood, and I wandered in my mind to a memory of my dad playing spoons – He could make music with them. He’d put them together back to back with his finger in between the handles, and bounce them from his knee to the hand that he held just slightly above his knee, and make music. I loved it. I loved to listen to him “play” the spoons. I thought it was so cool when he did it, that I decided I’d try it. I hated it! They slipped off of each other, pinched my fingers and sounded like little more than racket that should only be heard from utensils while at the dinner table. I loved hearing it when he did it, but I hated doing it. The weightless thoughts tickled my mind with their simplicity, and made me smile.
I had reached a conclusion to my curiosity. I guess every body has a little gift to share that makes the rest of us think – how do they do that? Thing is, I have thought that about other people hundreds of times without acknowledging that I have a little gift to share too! And, more importantly that all of those little gifts that other people have, add something quite special to my life and to my writing. for instance, if I didn’t have my son who has a gift for gadgets of a technical nature, I wouldn’t have any idea how to use my computer (you’ve no idea how true this is!) If I hadn’t had my dad who had a gift for making my heart dance for the eight years that I had him, I wouldn’t have those sweet memories of him making the silly music that sprung my heart into motion. If there weren’t people in my life who loved reading a story better than building one, they would surely all be so busy building that I might be the only one with the time to peel open and run my fingers through my projects, which is really no fun at all – admiring someone else’s work is far more entertaining.
So, thanks Virginia, and others like her, for the compliment – apparently your gift (at least one of them) is the strength to make other people aware of their own gifts. You certainly gave me a smile that lasted me all the way home (and a little longer). And, quite frankly, I’m glad that you and others like you would rather read than write :0) This way I can possibly make you all smile once or twice, as well.
I don’t dare close without mentioning the importance for all of us to support, in what ever way we can, the treatment and prevention of child abuse.
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Elizabeth’s father was diagnosed with brain cancer when Elizabeth was six years old. She’s too young to remember him as a healthy young man; she only has images of him and his illness. Despite his illness, he made Elizabeth feel “warm and comfortable and safe.”
Eventually, her father is admitted to a hospice. Elizabeth and her siblings are split up among their relatives. Elizabeth’s mother moves in with a friend, Doyle. Doyle showered Elizabeth with attention and gifts. However, when Elizabeth was eight years old, Doyle began molesting her.
THE TABLET OF MY HEART is a painfully honest account of one young girl’s experience. Scattered throughout the journal entries are bits of poetry the author wrote to chronicle and express the hell she was experiencing. She writes about contemplating suicide at the age of ten years old, of the two occasions when she told someone of her abuse (both times she was dismissed), and of the additional emotional pain she experienced when she finally reported the abuse. But one of the prevalent themes in Elizabeth’s poetry is her anger at God, her questioning of God’s existence, and the ultimate understanding of God’s plan.
THE TABLET OF MY HEART was not an easy read due to the topic.But the overall message was a powerful one: never give up on your faith. Despite all the tests forced upon you, you will persevere.
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When I created my blog, I did so because I have a strong love of reading, and wanted to share my love of books, and the books themselves, with my friends and loved ones. And the best way to celebrate, I think, is to recognize some of my favorite books…and to give them away!
All of the books pictured will be given to one lucky person. It so happens that the majority of these books were books I read a long with the online book club I belong to, Pageturners. We’ve been a group for over six years now. They are some of my very best friends! I think I enjoyed these books so much because of the discussions they generated.
There are over 20 books in this giveaway:
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency
Valley of the Dolls
The Bookseller of Kabul
The Mercy of Thin Air
Full of Grace
Under the Tuscan Sun
The Secret Life of Bees
Mrs. Kimble
Living History
A Gift Upon the Shore
Second Glance
A Million Little Pieces
Measure of A Man
Two Old Woman
The Time Traveler’s Wife
Kite Runner
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Son of A Witch
The Sound and the Fury
A Light in August
As I Lay Dying
The Rules:
US & Canadian residents only, please. Contest will end in one week–Friday, May 22nd.
The SERIAL eBook also contains a Q&A with Kilborn and Crouch, author bibliographies, and excerpts from their most recent and forthcoming works: Kilborn’s Afraid and Crouch’s Abandon.
