BOOKISH FRIDAY: “STONE MOTHERS”

Welcome to another Bookish Friday, in which I  share excerpts from books…and connect with other bloggers, who do the same.

Let’s begin the celebration by sharing Book Beginnings, hosted by Rose City Reader; and let’s showcase The Friday 56 with Freda’s Voice.

To join in, just grab a book and share the opening lines…along with any thoughts you wish to give us; then turn to page 56 and excerpt anything on the page.

Then give us the title of the book, so others can add it to their lists!

What a great way to spend a Friday!

Today’s feature is a recent download:  Stone Mothers, by Erin Kelly.

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Beginning:  The blindfold hurts.  His inexperience shows in the knot.  It’s tight but crude, and has captured a hank of my hair.  Every time he takes a corner too fast, I rock to the side, the seatbelt slicing my shoulder and the tiny needlepoint pain in my scalp intensifying.  He brakes without warning:  I’m thrown forward.  A loosening of the purple silk near my right temple lets in a little light but no information.

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Friday 56:  “I’m going after her again, Marianne, and if I mean anything to you, you’ll come in with me.”  Tears in his eyes undermine the threat.

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Synopsis:  You can’t keep the secret.
You can’t tell the truth.
You can’t escape the past…

Marianne was seventeen when she fled her home in Nusstead – leaving behind her family, her boyfriend, Jesse, and the body they buried. Now, thirty years later, forced to return to in order to help care for her sick mother, she can feel the past closing around her. And Jesse, who never forgave her for leaving in the first place, is finally threatening to expose the truth.

Marianne will do anything to protect the life she’s built, the husband and daughter who must never know what happened all those years ago. Even if it means turning to her worst enemy for help… But Marianne may not know the whole story – and she isn’t the only one with secrets they’d kill to keep.

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I am glued to the pages.  Would you keep reading?

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