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Blog Tour: Dead Dreams by Emma Right (spotlight, excerpt, giveaway)
Dead Dreams
written by Emma Right
published by Right House Books
find it here: (affiliate links) Amazon, Smashwords, Goodreads
About the book: Eighteen-year-old Brie O’Mara has so much going for her: a loving family in the sidelines, an heiress for a roommate, and dreams that might just come true. Big dreams–of going to acting school, finishing college and making a name for herself.
She is about to be the envy of everyone she knew. What more could she hope for? Except her dreams are about to lead her down the road to nightmares. Nightmares that could turn into a deadly reality.
Dead Dreams, Book 1, a young adult psychological thriller and contemporary mystery.
The first night the burglar broke into our home, I was wiped out and zonked out of my skull. Susan Summers at Stay Fit had called in sick last-minute, and I’d had to add two hours to my unearthly morning shift, after which I couldn’t even grab lunch before I had scoot to Starbucks, driving like a mad duck in my Mini Cooper. Friday afternoon was an especially busy time for Starbucks. Forget about time to down a latte or two to keep my eyelids from drooping.
…
“Brie, wake up,” Sarah whispered as she shook my arm vigorously.
Who is she afraid of waking with all that whispering?
I was the only one in the bedroom. I glanced at my bedside clock. The green light of the digital claimed it was three ten. Or, I should say, already three ten, since I always dragged myself out of bed at four thirty to brace myself for Stay Fit.
Then, even in the dimness, I noticed her eyes were glistening. “What’s wrong?” Was she ill after all?
“Shhh! They could still be here.” “They? Who?” “Shhh! Them, they, he….” She broke off, sobbing.
I turned on the bedside lamp, and she struggled, intending to stop me. I jerked back when I saw her face. Blood dripped from one side of her head.
“My God! Sarah!” I exclaimed, even though I wasn’t the believing-in-God type. My parents were to be blamed for my aversion to God. Too many inconsistencies and unanswered questions. “What happened?”
Her eyes welled up with tears, wild, looking about like a frightened deer.
“They’re—he’s after me. He’s going to kill me.”
“Who?” I jumped to my feet and rushed to the door. Thank goodness she’d shut it. I placed my ear to the doorjamb and listened. Were the burglars still outside? Sarah sobbed uncontrollably. Too loudly. “Shh! Sarah, are they still here?” I shook her in a vain attempt to keep her calm.
“Just one man. I don’t know. I rammed the door into his face when he dragged me by the hair.” She rubbed at a spot on her head. “I think he left, maybe.”
“We have to call the cops.”
“No, no, please. You can’t.” She pulled my arm when I reached for my yellow duffel by the foot of my bed, where my cell phone lay.
“We mustn’t. You don’t get it. Todd!” She said under her breath.
Todd? This was no ordinary sibling rivalry. This was beyond me. Sarah was hiding something.
About the author: Emma Right is a happy wife and homeschool mother of five living in the Pacific West Coast of the USA. Besides running a busy home, and looking after their five pets, which includes two cats, two bunnies and a long-haired dachshund, she also writes stories for her children. When she doesn’t have her nose in a book, she is telling her kids to get theirs in one.
Right worked as a copywriter for two major advertising agencies and won several awards, including the prestigious Clio Award for her ads, before she settled down to have children.
Find Ms. Right here: web, Facebook, Twitter, Goodreads, YouTube, Google+, Pinterest
15 Comments
by candacesbookblog
Thanks for hosting a tour stop!
by TheEveryFreeChanceReader
No problem!
by hotcha1
THANK YOU EMMA AND CHRISSY!
by TheEveryFreeChanceReader
Good luck in the giveaway, Linda!
by Jeanne
Emma, how in the world do you have time to write? It sounds like each of your children has their own pet. Five children and five pets is a handful. Please continue with your God given talent and give us all such pleasure reading your books!!
by TheEveryFreeChanceReader
I was thinking the same, Jeanne!
by felicia sidoma
thanks for hosting
by TheEveryFreeChanceReader
No problem! Thanks for stopping by.
by Cohlina Mae
The book sounds good. Thanks for the awesome giveaway! 😀
by TheEveryFreeChanceReader
It does sound good. Good luck in the giveaway!
by Mary Preston
I’m looking forward to a great read.
by TheEveryFreeChanceReader
Good luck, Mary!
by JanD
Intriguing excerpt.
by Sarah Miles
*happy sigh* Psychological thriller 🙂
by TheEveryFreeChanceReader
You’ll have to let me know if you read it and whether you enjoy it.