Cover Reveal: Lights out by Melissa Groeling
Even when the lights are out, he can still see you…
Paul Holten’s profession doesn’t leave much room for doubt or conscience but he’s reaching his breaking point. The nightmares are getting worse, the jobs are getting harder to finish and the volatile relationship with his boss, Aaron, is falling apart. Now faced with the possibility of an impending death sentence, Paul makes the fatal decision to run. Drawn into one hellish situation after another, he’s forced to confront his dark past---and wonder if perhaps dying isn’t the better option.
Excerpt:
They had to get
out of there—and fast—but he couldn’t see a thing…
Jesus, it was dark.
It was disorienting
in its completeness, in its total lack of light. In his lifetime,
Paul had had his sight temporarily taken from him many times. Mostly
by people who didn’t want to be looked at or identified if—God
forbid—something went wrong. But there had always been some degree
of light leaking through the blindfold or a shift in someone’s hand
that was clamped tightly over his eyes, or the loose weaves in a
rut-sack that was tied around his head. He’d always been able to
see something.
This, however, was
like the deepest part of the ocean. This was like having his eyes
glued shut. This was what it meant to be blind.
The air grew colder
and with that came the struggle to breathe. He didn’t know if it
was claustrophobia but it came pretty damn close. His chest hurt and
his throat felt like someone was cramming cotton into his mouth. He
tried to breathe more slowly, to at least calm the thundering in his
rib cage, but the darkness around him fed the panic that was skating
through his bones. The stones beneath his fingers were wet in some
places and icy in others and, under his feet, things crunched and
squeaked like he was stepping through snow and ice.
He hoped
it was snow and ice.
Echoes came from all
sides of him. It was impossible to decipher one sound from the next.
He wondered if people who heard voices were anything like this. Just
one gigantic ball of murmuring sounds and words that didn’t make
any sense.
There was a scraping
sound behind him.
Melissa
Groeling graduated from Bloomsburg University with a degree in
English. She lives, reads and writes in the Philadelphia region and
wherever else life happens to send her. She is a hardcore New York
Giants fan and loves chocolate. Lights Out
is her second novel to date.
Come
find me at Facebook!
Twitter:
@stringbean10
Blog:
http://melissagroeling.blogspot.com
Contact information:
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https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/379110
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