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Till Death Us Do
Part
By: Cristina Slough
Releasing December
29, 2015
Limitless Publishing
Limitless Publishing
The fateful day Mimi Marcus has dreaded begins with
a phone call...
The wife of a U.S. Marine, Mimi spent countless
nights worried that her husband Joel would fall in the line of duty. He had
fought valiantly and served his country with honor. That’s exactly what they
tell her when they deliver the news—Joel was taken by the enemy in Afghanistan.
Her husband is dead.
In desperate need of closure, Mimi travels to the
one place Joel still has ties—The Marcus Ranch in Texas, inherited by his
handsome younger brother Austin.
New beginnings are only an illusion...
The closer Mimi grows to the Marcus family, the
more she considers it home. But when suspicions of Joel’s past surface, Austin
refuses to disclose family secrets—even to his brother’s widow. It’s only by
accident she uncovers evidence of Joel’s tainted past. Devastated by his lies
and betrayal, she slowly opens up to Austin, and together they unfold layers of
pain and grief.
Mimi is sure she’ll never
love again, but is Austin the man to prove her wrong? Then the unthinkable
happens…
Just as Mimi finds new hope in a future with
Austin, Joel returns home from war. Enraged, traumatized, and teetering on the
edge of insanity, Joel confesses to a history of deception, revealing yet
another secret—this one too terrible to forgive.
In an awful twist of
fate, Joel proves marriage vows are made to be honored.
No matter what.
No matter what.
Mimi had been dreaming of
a storm. Heavy rain, violent claps of thunder, and lightning flashing
simultaneously.
She saw Joel, reaching out
for her, his body bloody and wet. She awoke in the darkened room. It was 2:17
a.m.—the exact time she had woken up for three nights in a row. She slipped out
of bed, her pyjama bottoms loose around her ever-shrinking waist. The air was
freezing. She dashed across the room to wrap herself in the fleecy dressing
gown her mother had just bought her for Christmas.
6:47 a.m. in Afghanistan.
Her stomach growled,
begging for food. She couldn’t eat. She clicked onto her Twitter feed to check
for more updates since the suicide bombing in Kabul, which had claimed at least
six—two were American Marines.
Mimi had contacted the
Embassy several times, but nobody could tell her anything. The pain of not
knowing was taking away her ability to breathe normally. The silence was too
loud. She had tried to remember their last conversation. Did she tell him that
she loved him? Words so quick to fall off the tongue to end a phone call. Love
you—bye. Often she had felt like she was holding a grenade—being the wife of a
Marine, always waiting for a letter, hearing his voice, waiting for news that
he was alive or dead.
Novelist, movie addict, and animal lover, Cristina
Slough is the author of Till Death Us Do Part, her debut
novel.
Cristina has always been a bookworm, rarely seen without a pen and
paper in her hand, she loves delving into a literacy fictional world of her
own.
At the age of 11, her junior school teacher told her mother that
she would be wasting her life if she didn’t become an author. Throughout her
teenage years and beyond, her parents spurred her on to keep writing. She later
began a career in commercial real estate, working in London’s West End, a
corporate bubble where she was unable to fuel her passion to write.
It was on her Californian honeymoon in 2012 that the bug to write
was becoming increasingly difficult to ignore. After visiting Yosemite National
Park she was inspired by the natural beauty of the land that surrounded her.
Holding a special place in her heart, Yosemite would later be written into her
debut novel.
She finally gave up the ‘big smoke’ when her son, Lucas, was born
in October 2013.
When Lucas was a newborn, Cristina was told to sleep when the baby
sleeps. She never could. There was a calling inside her to write. After getting
to grips with her new role as a mother, she began working a psychological
thriller, but she couldn’t fully connect to the characters she created. She
ditched the manuscript and started Till Death Us Do Part (Limitless Publishing,
2015).
Cristina is married to Adam, who runs a successful business;
together they share their Bedfordshire home with their son, crazy white German
Shepherd and three spoiled cats. They can be found trekking through woodlands,
or around the many shops Cristina loves to explore. As a family, they love to
travel frequently, the United States being a firm favorite.
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