Once Upon A Lie
by Michael French
GENRE: Fiction / Murder Mystery
BLURB:
Once
Upon a Lie is about a smart, ambitious sixteen year old, Alexandra, who
chooses to keep silent when she learns terrible secrets about both her father
and her mother, whom she grew up adoring. The price of keeping her
"perfect" family together soon unravels her well-planned future, and
puts in jeopardy the life of a young stranger whom she befriends and ultimately
falls in love with. We learn how your life can end at any time, and it
can end more than once. And then it can be saved.
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EXCERPT:
Mom hurried to put in a load of wash
and organize dinner. Her focus was usually like a laser beam, but on this
afternoon, she had spaced out that I was in the house. When I picked up the
kitchen phone to call Joyce, I overheard her talking from her bedroom
extension.
“No, no, you’re not listening,” the
man said in an upset voice. I recognized
the voice of Charlie Diggs.
“I am listening,” my mother
insisted.
“Julia nags me, day and night, about
her biological clock.”
“I thought you two agreed you
weren’t having children.”
“We did agree. Isn’t that the point?
She doesn’t even realize when she changes her mind.”
“I’m sorry she makes you miserable.”
“Louis doesn’t know how lucky he
is,” Charlie added. “Jesus, what you have to go through with him. He should
treat you better, Gloria. Does he know
how much I love you? Why can’t you get up the courage and tell him?”
“Oh, Charlie, poor Charlie,” my
mother responded whenever his voice fell silent.
Mom was still on the phone when I
burst into her room. She knew instantly that I’d heard everything. Charlie was
still talking as she hung up.
“Mom, what are you doing?! What’s
going on?!” My face was hot and cold at the same time.
All she could do was stare back
helplessly, like a ghost haunting her own life.
AUTHOR BIO:
Michael
R. French graduated from Stanford University where he was an English major,
focusing on creative writing, and studied under Wallace Stegner. He received a Master's degree in journalism
from Northwestern University. He later
served in the United States Army before marrying Patricia Goodkind, an educator
and entrepreneur, and starting a family.
In addition to publishing over twenty titles, including award-winning
young adult fiction, adult fiction, biographies ad self-help books, he has
written or co-written a half-dozen screenplays, including Intersection, which
has won awards in over twenty film festivals.
He has also had a long business career in real estate, living in Santa
Fe, New Mexico. His passions include
travel, collecting rare books, and hanging with friends and family. He describes his worst traits as impatience
and saying "no" too quickly; his best are curiosity, taking risks,
and learning from failure.
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3 comments:
Thanks for hosting!
great excerpt can't wait to read!
Thank you for featuring Once Upon A Lie today!
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