PICTURE ME, A MYSTERY
by Amy Schisler
GENRE: mystery
BLURB:
Melissa
Grant has escaped the clutches of death, not once, not twice, but three times.
While she considers this to be divine intervention, her assailant is sure that
her luck will run out, and the authorities are suspicious that Melissa isn’t as
innocent as she seems. Implicated in the murders of two of her closest friends,
and running from both a hit man and the law, Melissa does what is thought to be
impossible in the 21st Century – she disappears. Julie Lawson has no family, no
friends, and no past. She spends her days photographing the country and her
nights tossing and turning as nightmares plague her sleep. While passing
through the town of St. Brendan, on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, Julie finds some
things she hasn’t had in a very long time – a home, friends, and love. For the
first time in two years, Julie can see her future, but she can attain it only
by surviving a predator from her past. Eric West has a past of his own that he
is trying to forget. His return to his hometown keeps his demons away until he
meets Julie, and she stirs up emotions in him that he hasn’t felt in a long
time. As he slowly begins to let go of this past, Eric tries to break down the
walls that Julie has so tightly built around herself. Gaining her trust one
small act at a time, and hiring the best investigator in DC to dig for answers,
Eric opens the Pandora’s Box to Julie’s past which threatens all of their
futures.
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EXCERPT:
With her heart beating wildly, under
the cover of the loud music, she tiptoed toward the bedroom window where the
fire escape was. Praying that the man
would not turn toward the bedroom, she quietly raised the window while holding
her breath and praying it wouldn’t make a sound. Not daring to look back, she dropped herself
onto the landing, sucking in frigid air and almost choking as her feet hit the
icy metal.
Melissa flew down the fire escape
slipping and sliding on the smooth, glassy coating. Her bare foot slipped out from under her on
the last step sending her reeling back onto the stairs and hitting her head. Looking up, she saw the masked man lean out
of the window above her.
Melissa had no time to even check
her head for blood as she wrenched herself from the sidewalk and ran for her
life.
AUTHOR BIO:
Amy
MacWilliams Schisler, of Bozman, has been writing all of her life for fun and
as a freelance writer. A graduate of
University of Maryland College Park with a Masters of Library and Information
Science, Amy has resided in Talbot County for 21 years. She was employed as a school library media
specialist at White Marsh Elementary and Chapel District Elementary and a
reference librarian at Chesapeake College.
For the past eight years, she has operated her own computer tutoring
service working primarily with senior citizens while spending as much time as
possible writing. Amy was a contributing editor for the reference series Best
Books For Libraries 2004 Edition and is included in Who’s Who Among American
Women.
Schisler’s
first children’s book, Crabbing With Granddad, is an autobiographical work
about spending a day harvesting the Maryland Blue Crab and is available in
local stores and the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum as well as on Amazon. Sarah Book Publishing released Schisler’s
novel, A Place to Call Home, in August of 2014.
A revised second edition was released in March 2015.
Picture
Me, A Mystery was released on August 17, 2015.
The book follows the plight of a young woman as she journeys across the
country assuming one identity after another in order to stay alive. When she lands in a small port town on the
Eastern Shore of Maryland and meets the man of her dreams, she lets her guard
down and puts her heart and her life in danger.
A former librarian and teacher, Amy
now lives in Bozman, Maryland with her husband, three daughters, and two dogs
where she is very involved in her local community. Amy is the leader of Girl Scout Troop 453,
Director of Summer Roundup Girl Scout Camp, and active in her family’s church
and school.
Amy has
been featured on:
OmniMystery
News
Noisetrade.com
Southern
Maryland News
Tea at
Trianon Blog
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