Successful, ambitious state prosecutor Grace Courtemanche is at the top of her game. Then she gets a chilling call from a young woman claiming to be buried alive. Desperate to find the victim before it's too late, Grace will do whatever it takes . . . even if it means excavating the darkest secrets of her own past and turning to the one man she thought she would never see again.
FBI agent Theodore "Hatch" Hatcher is a man without roots-and that's the way he likes it. But when a grisly crime shatters Cyprus Bend, Florida, Hatch is dragged back to the small town-and the one woman-he hoped was in his rearview for good. Forced to confront the wreckage of their love affair, Hatch and Grace may just find that sometimes the deepest wounds leave the most beautiful scars-and that history repeating itself may just be what they need to stop a killer . . . and save their own hearts.
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When I was five or six, I got out of
bed one night to get a drink of water. As I walked by the living room where my
mom and dad were watching TV, a woman on the screen was clawing her way out of
an earthen grave. The sight of that mud-covered hand and sound of her choked
breathing left me frozen with fear.
For years I had nightmares about being buried alive. I’d
wake up cold and shaking and gasping for air. To this day, I fear not being
able to breathe. So of course I wrote a book about it!
In THE BURIED, Grace Courtemanche—an ambitious, successful
state prosecutor—is pulled into a world of terror and self-doubt when she
receives calls from victims buried alive, and she must turn to the one man she
swore she’d never need again, Hatch Hatcher, a rootless, smooth-talking FBI
crisis negotiator in town to deal with a long-buried secret of his own.
Grace and Hatch’s story, book #2 in the Apostles Series
featuring Parker Lord’s elite FBI team, was a tough one for me to write. I
actually had to set it aside for two years because it was too dark. But when I
finally figured out what the story was really
about—family—I found my light, and even a bit of laughter, to balance all that
dark.
I can’t wait for readers to join me for another dark and
twisty but ultimately uplifting story of hope and the healing power of family. -Shelley
Coriell
A former newspaper reporter, magazine editor, and restaurant reviewer. These days Shelley writes smart, funny novels for teens and big, edgy romantic suspense. A six-time Romance Writers of America Golden Heart Finalist, she lives and loves in Arizona with her family and the world's neediest rescue Weimaraner. When she's not behind the keyboard, you'll find her baking high-calorie, high-fat desserts and haunting local farmers markets for the perfect plum. This may contain confidential material. If you are not an intended recipient, please notify the sender, delete immediately, and understand that no disclosure or reliance on the information herein is permitted. Hachette Book Group may monitor email to and from our network.
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3 comments:
This sounds like a thrilling book, do enter me in the draw. Thanks Nise.
Sounds like a great giveaway! I'm a big mystery and suspense reader and I've read all of these authors except the one you featured with The Broken, so it's great to find a new to me author and title.
Enjoy and thanks.
*shudder* on that scene showing someone buried alive.
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