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Heroes Are My Weakness
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Releasing in Paperback July 28th
Avon Romance
The
dead of winter.
An isolated island off the coast of Maine.
A man.
A woman.
A sinister house looming over the sea ...
He's a reclusive writer whose macabre imagination creates chilling horror novels. She's a down-on-her-luck actress reduced to staging kids' puppet shows. He knows a dozen ways to kill with his bare hands. She knows a dozen ways to kill with laughs.
But she's not laughing now. When she was a teenager, he terrified her. Now they're trapped together on a snowy island off the coast of Maine. Is he the villain she remembers or has he changed? Her head says no. Her heart says yes.
It's going to be a long, hot winter.
An isolated island off the coast of Maine.
A man.
A woman.
A sinister house looming over the sea ...
He's a reclusive writer whose macabre imagination creates chilling horror novels. She's a down-on-her-luck actress reduced to staging kids' puppet shows. He knows a dozen ways to kill with his bare hands. She knows a dozen ways to kill with laughs.
But she's not laughing now. When she was a teenager, he terrified her. Now they're trapped together on a snowy island off the coast of Maine. Is he the villain she remembers or has he changed? Her head says no. Her heart says yes.
It's going to be a long, hot winter.
The apparition came from nowhere.
A man clad in black flew across the
bottom of the road on a midnight horse. She’d always had a vivid
imagination¾witness her internal conversations with her puppets¾and she thought
she was imagining this. But the vision was real. Horse and rider racing through
the snow, the man leaning low over the horse’s mane streaming. They
were demon creatures, a nightmare horse and lunatic man galloping into the
storm’s fury.
They disappeared as quickly as
they’d appeared, but her foot automatically hit the brake, and the car began to
slide. It skidded across the road and,with a sickening lurch, came to a stop in
the snow-filled ditch.
You’re such a loser, Leo
the villain sneered.
Tears of exhaustion filled her eyes.
Her hands shook. Were the man and horse indeed real or had
she conjured them? She needed to focus. She put the car into reverse and
attempted to rock it out, but the tires only spun deeper. Her head fell against
the back of the seat. If she stayed here long enough, someone would find her.
But when? Only the cottage and the main house lay at the end of this road.
She tried to think. Her single
contact on the island was the man who took care of the main house and the
cottage, but she’d only had an e-mail address to let him know she was arriving
and ask him to turn on the cottage’s utilities. Even if she had his phone
number¾Will Shaw¾that was his name¾she doubted she could get cell reception out
here.
Loser. Leo
never spoke in an ordinary voice. He only sneered.
Annie grabbed a tissue from a
crumpled pack, but instead of thinking about her dilemma, she thought about the
horse and rider. What kind of a crazy took an animal out in this weather? She
squeezed her eyes shut and fought a wave of nausea. If only she could curl up
and go to sleep. Would it be so terrible to admit that life had gotten the best
of her?
Susan Elizabeth Phillips soars onto the New York Times bestseller list with every new publication. She’s the only four-time recipient of the Romance Writers of America’s prestigious Favorite Book of the Year Award. Susan delights fans by touching hearts as well as funny bones with her wonderfully whimsical and modern fairy tales. A resident of the Chicago suburbs, she is also a wife, and mother of two grown sons.
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