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Blurb:
One by one, the residents of Landry, Georgia gave up on
finding Lyssa Winders alive. It had, after
all, been fourteen years since she vanished.
The men who invaded her home left behind the bodies of those she loved with all
her heart. Only one person never gave up
and still searches for Lyssa. Kyle Tinker
battles his own demons from that night, when he hid like a coward instead of running for help. Their eighteenth
birthday looms on the horizon, and Kyle is
determined to bring Lyssa home.
Meanwhile, Kim Tinker is
having trouble understanding her dreams about
a pretty blonde girl—she has no idea that
these dreams are of her life as Lyssa Winters. She also hears a guy who has
recently started talking to her--in her head. All Kim wants is to get away from
a family which hates her, but doing it safely is the one thing which eludes
her.
On the day of the Freedom
Festival, Kyle sees the girl he never thought he'd see again. And Lyssa finds
the one person she's protected for the last fourteen years on their shared
birthday.
Excerpt:
Four-year-old
Lyssa Winders landed with a thump on her living room floor. Her bottom hurt
from the hard wood, and her head ached from all the yelling and shouting she'd
been hearing. Nothing made sense. She just wanted this to stop.
Her parents,
Auntie Keisha, Nana Brandy, and Grandpa Monty kneeled in front of her. They had
their hands on the back of their heads, and they looked very scared.
"Gonna talk
now, Jack?" the stinky man asked. He had carried her out of the safety of her bedroom and dumped her on the floor. "Or do I hurt
your kid?"
Stinky jerked
Lyssa to her feet. She couldn't run. He held her tight in front of his nasty
smelling body.
"She's just
a baby," Daddy said. "Don't hurt Lyssa. Let her go. She won't tell
anyone anything." He stared at her with scared eyes. "Right, baby?
You won't say anything." She nodded, and her daddy faced Stinky.
"See, she agreed. Just let her go."
"Nope."
A man near her laughed.
She turned her
head and saw her puppy. Rags crept out from behind the sofa. His tail stood
straight in the air, and he made growly noises in his throat.
Lyssa swallowed
hard. Rags couldn't come any closer. Stinky had a gun. He had a horribly tight
grip on her shoulder.
Bio: KC Sprayberry started writing young, first as a diarist, and later
through an interest in English and creative writing. Her first experience with
publication came when she placed third in The
Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge contest while in the Air Force, but her
dedication to writing came after she had her youngest child, now in his
senior year of high school.
Her family lives in Northwest
Georgia where she spends her days creating stories about life in the south, and
far beyond. More than a dozen of her short stories have appeared in several
magazines. Five anthologies feature other short stories, and her young adult
novel Softly Say Goodbye, released in 2012. During 2013, more young
adult stories have been released: The Ghost Catcher, Who Am I?, Family Curse
… Times Two, and Amazon
Best Seller, Canoples Investigations Tackles Space Pirates, Canoples
Investigations Versus Spacers Rule, Take Chances, Mama's Advice, Secret From
the Flames, and Where U @.
Links:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/kcsowriter
Website: www.kcsprayberry.com
Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/kcsprayberry/boards/
Authorgraph: http://www.authorgraph.com/authors/kcsowriter
Book Trailer:
Short Link: http://youtu.be/uZhb0zU2zdU
Thank you, Kay. Looks great!
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