Lie to Her
by Mehrisa Mex
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GENRE: psychological thriller
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BLURB:
Despite years of treatment, twenty-one year old Lydia still
struggles with trauma from being attacked as a teenager. House-bound with
anxieties and haunted by ghostly visions, she soon comes to suspect her
psychiatrist husband, Myles, of sabotaging her recovery.
Her pursuit of the truth uncovers secrets more terrible than she ever imagined and it soon becomes clear that nothing is as it seems and no one can be trusted – not even herself.
Her pursuit of the truth uncovers secrets more terrible than she ever imagined and it soon becomes clear that nothing is as it seems and no one can be trusted – not even herself.
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EXCERPT
Lydia sprinted out of the
lounge, through the kitchen-dining room, out onto the back patio and down onto
the grass in her socked feet. Her heart felt like it had multiplied in her
chest and was hammering along with all its replicas out of sync. When she
turned back to the face the house, she saw the girl standing in the upstairs
window, looking down at her. A second later, she was gone.
She had left her cell phone
and everything else inside. She had nothing to protect herself with, so she
hurried to the tool shed near the garage to look for her gardening shears. When
she couldn't find them, she grabbed the garden rake instead and headed to the
gate with it.
When she got there, she
undid the latch and threw the gate open. But she had only taken a few steps
into the road outside when she felt a sudden vertigo descend on her. Various
planes of her vision shifted and an icy-sharpness cut across the surface of her
skin. She staggered back to the gate and inside the compound of the house.
It took her some time before
she could stand up straight. She looked back at the house with dread. The irony
of her situation was not lost on her – that she could no sooner go inside
feeling this way than she could leave the perimeter of the house without
risking another kind of panic attack. She was pitifully stranded.
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AUTHOR Bio and
Links:
Mehrisa Mex writes mystery-thrillers, neo-noir and international
crime. She often appears in her own imagination lit in the chiaroscuro style of
film noir and narrating thoughts to herself in moody, hard-boiled tones.
Amazon link for
book purchase:
Info links:
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GIVEAWAY INFORMATION
Mehrisa Mex will be awarding a $10 Amazon or Barnes and Noble GC
to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.
Be sure to visit the other blogs on the tour:
March 19: The Avid Reader
March 20: Laurie's Thoughts and Reviews
March 20: Mixed Book Bag
March 21: Sharing Links and Wisdom
March 21: The Book Connection
March 22: BooksChatter
March 22: T's Stuff
March 23: A Writer's Life
March 23: Books Can Be Deadly
March 23: FUONLYKNEW
March 23: Liz's Reading Life
March 26: Fabulous and Brunette
March 26: Hope. Dreams. Life... Love
March 26: Jazzy Book Reviews
March 27: Dina Rae's Write Stuff
March 27: Locks, Hooks and Books
March 27: Nickie's Views and Interviews
March 27: Notes From a Romantic's Heart
March 28: Christine Young
March 28: Stormy Nights Reviewing and Bloggin'
March 29: Natural Bri - review
March 29: Readeropolis
March 30: Author C.A.Milson
March 30: Independent Authors
March 30: XoXo Book Blog
9 comments:
Thanks for hosting!
I enjoyed getting to know your book; congrats on the tour and I hope it is a fun one for you :)
This sounds like a really amazing book!
Hello! Thanks for having 'Lie to Her' (and me!) onboard today.
Really appreciate you saying that, Victoria! If you get a chance to check it out, let me know what you think. :)
(If you happen to be a subscriber, it's available these days on Kindle Unlimited.)
Good of you to have me, JC. :)
Thanks, Lisa!
Thanks for the giveaway; I like the excerpt. :)
Glad you enjoyed it, Cali! This is an excerpt from the first chapter. Lydia has just been attacked by a "ghost-vision" of a grim young girl and has run out of the house to try and escape her.
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