Emery LaRue writes
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Flames
of Fate
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Flames of Fate,
August 11, 2007
Whispers
Publishing
Genre:
Contemporary/Paranormal
Heat Index: Sensual
Format: eBook,
Even death wasn't enough...
Crystal Canace is determined to find the one responsible for
the death of Nicholas Paxton. She is so close, her life is
on the line. But it's her nights that are far more
frightening. She is in love with a ghost and letting him
move on would mean the loss of her heart.
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Flames of
Fate is Phenomenal! With an irresistible plot, sure
to make you never want to put it down. Emery LaRue
writes a suspense romance like no other. One of her best
works yet! Come read for your selves and see why I think
this should be a best seller. Cheers to you, Emery
LaRue!
~ Sensual Reads & Reviews,
5 Roses
Excerpt
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Nicholas Paxton looked around himself, wondering how he
had come to this place. Wondering just where this place
was. He knew he was dead. Had been shot and dumped in
the ocean to die. Now he seemed to be drifting, floating
through a cloudy haze. Was he moving toward heaven, or
would this be his hell?
No, something was keeping him here. He could feel
something inside, a feeling that he would be able to
make a wrong right. But that confused him. He was a
ghost, right? Did ghost's have feelings?
There were other's like him. He could see them as they
drifted. Did they feel as lost as he? Did they to feel
as if they were missing something, and needed to find
it, fix it? He let out a sigh, not sure anymore what he
was feeling or why. He was dead, and dead men went one
of two way's. Either way, he wished he could get there
and rest in peace.
Still, anger flowed through him. It was so unfair. He
had finally reached the point in his life that he had
always dreamed. His law firm was one of the best in,
California. He had more money than he had ever planned.
A beautiful house, flashy car's, and was chosen San
Jose's most wanted bachelor. Life was good and he had
been happy.
In one single moment, all of that changed. A thug in his
office, a gun, a burning pain in his chest as the bullet
ripped through his flesh. The sensation of floating as
he was dumped into the sea. He only wished he knew why
this man had done this to him.
Nicholas shivered at the thought of his body still
drifting in the tides. Was he a meal for the little
scavengers on the ocean floor? Was he now in the belly
of the larger predator's of the sea? In all his year's,
he had made a few enemies.
But not one of them, or anyone for that matter, deserved
to die such a way.
He had only been in his late twenties, and accomplished
so much. He was never a selfish man. Always tried to
give if it was needed. What had he ever done to deserve
this? Why in the hell didn't he just move on?
There was a reason for everything, he believed in this.
Something was holding him here, all he needed to do was
find what was holding him and why. How he would do that,
he didn't know, but he felt sure it would come to him.
All he needed to do was believe he had one last mission
to complete. Isn't it said that a ghost will move on
after the take care of unfinished business?
The only business he would like to finish is getting his
hands on his killer. He may have to die, but Nicholas
would take one more with him. If he was given the
chance to.
As he sat pondering the how's and why's of his
situation, he didn't notice the small flame beside him
that was steadily growing. Once he did however, he lost
his breath for a moment. It wasn't something he expected
to see in this place, but then again, what did he really
expect? He watched until it burned bright before his
eyes.
Through the flame he could clearly see a woman. A woman
he knew and knew well. She had been his secretary once.
Before his life had ended. She looked diffrent, though
the change seemed subtle. Older, she looked older.
That couldn't be right. The Sarah Winter's he knew would
have defied the odd's with plastic surgery before she
would allow such a thing. But it was there, before his
eyes, and she had changed.
How much time I truly passed? It seemed to him like
yesterday, but how could he know just how much time had
gone by?
He watched Sarah through the flame, and wondered why he
was seeing this now. Was this a punishment of some kind?
He rejected her at every turn once. Sure, they had a
swift affair, but it was never anything he had wanted to
take further than what it was. It was all about sex. Was
this fate showing him what he will never have again? Not
Sarah herself, but a woman?
Nicholas narrowed his eyes and a suspicion formed when
his partner in the law firm came into view. Will Bradley
had been his friend in law school and they had built
Paxton & Bradley together from the ground up. Together,
they had made it big. But watching Will pull Sarah into
his arm's set off warning bells. Not for the fact that
Will and his ex lover were involved. That didn't bother
him at all. It was for reason's only he could
understand.
Will had never trusted Sarah. Nicholas couldn't remember
a single conversation that didn't end with Will telling
him the woman was a money hungry man eater. The man had
all but acted hostile whenever she was in the same room
with them. But looking at them now, you would think they
were dedicated lovers.
Nicholas turned away when Will bent Sarah over her desk.
Some things were best left alone, and that was not the
image he wanted in his mind. But it did make him think.
Will himself looked older. His hair now held gray at his
temples. How long had he been here? Why was he here?
When he looked back at the flame, he not only seen the
two, but he could hear them as well. Having no idea how
he knew it would work, Nicholas waved his hand over the
flame and it went out.
He was still hanging around for a reason, and if one
flame had come to him, then another would in time. He
would wait, figure it all out. After all, where the hell
would he go?
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