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Welcome to the blog tour for Laurel Hightower’s Whispers in the Dark. This tale will give your goosebumps goosebumps! Follow along for exclusive content and a chance to win a signed copy (US only) or a digital copy in your preferred format (International)!
Whispers in the Dark
Publication Date: December 7th, 2018
Genre: Paranormal Thriller/ Horror
Publisher: JournalStone
Rose McFarland is a trained killer–a Memphis S.W.A.T. sniper with a secret. Her team knows about the burn scars that lurk under her clothes, a legacy of the house fire that killed her father and brother sixteen years before. Her supervisors know that she spent two years in a rehabilitative facility, healing and learning to cope with the emotional trauma of the fire. But no one knows about the visions that drove her there, angry spirits that consumed her childhood, alienated her from her family and made her doubt her own sanity–the Whispers.
When Charlie Akers, a half-brother she never knew, ends up on the wrong side of Rose’s rifle, she unwittingly sets off a chain of events that puts her family in the middle of increasingly dangerous paranormal visitations. Charlie won’t stay dead, and soon ghosts from Rose’s past are creeping back into her life. People she’s killed in the line of duty, family she thought long buried, every one of them under the influence of Rose’s greatest fear, the Whispers themselves.
As the walls between our world and the world of the dead grow thin, Rose will have to face her old nightmares to stop the Whispers from breaking free. If she can’t, it won’t just be Memphis that falls to the dead–there will be no safe place left on earth for the living.
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Excerpt
His heart thudding again, Zack tried to hold his breath, peering into the gloom. He didn’t have to wait long. Another shuffle, something dragging against the grit. A shadow, darker than the rest of the night. It moved, swayed. Waited.
“Matt?”
No answer, but Zack thought he could hear breathing now. Labored, wheezing. The way Matt had sounded toward the end. He took a step closer, stopped. “Matt?”
“Zack.” A whisper. Tired, but an uptick of hope at the end. Zack swallowed. Matt had been waiting a long time. For the first time, Zack wondered if his brother would be angry. More dry dragging as Matt moved again. He was close now, almost close enough to touch. Zack coughed, his asthma tickled by something in the dry air down here. What was that? What did it smell like now?
“Zack?” A hand reaching out, slow, tentative.
Zack smiled tremulously, reached out too. Clasped the hand he’d waited thirty-seven years to feel again. Felt it pull him closer, into a shaft of moonlight coming through a broken window high on the wall. He looked up, into his brother’s face. Faltered.
“Matt?”
No, Zack realized with regret as the bony clutch tightened and pulled him close. Not Matt at all.
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About the Author
Laurel Hightower grew up in Kentucky, attending college in California and Tennessee before returning home to horse country, where she lives with her husband, son and two rescue animals, Yattering the cat (named for the Clive Barker short story) and Ladybug the adorable mutt. She definitely wants to see a picture of your dog, and often bonds with complete strangers over animal stories. A lifetime reader, she would raid her parents’ bookshelves from an early age, resulting in a number of awkward conversations about things like, “what does getting laid mean?” She loves discovering new favorite authors, and supporting the writing and reading community.
Laurel works as a paralegal in a mid-size firm, wrangling litigators by day and writing at night. A bourbon and beer girl, she’s a fan of horror movies and true life ghost stories. Whispers in the Dark is her first novel, though there are always more in the pipeline, and she loves researching anything horror related. She can usually be found working on the next project into the wee hours, sometimes as late as ten at night, as long as her toddler allows. Follow her on social media, even though she’s really bad at it, and she’ll follow you back. Plus you’ll be rewarded by pictures of cute dogs and kids.
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My Review
5 Stars
Rose McFarland is a SWAT sniper. She has had to go through hell to get to this point in her life. It may be a struggle but she has come a long way. Then she starts hearing the Whispers. She keeps ignoring them until she meets a half brother that she never knew about, Charlie, at work. Now Charlie won’t stay dead and the Whispers are getting stronger.
This is an amazing read and I can’t believe that this is a first book from Laurel Hightower. Sign me up; I can’t wait for any of her future books. Rose survived abuse as a kid and the death of her father and brother in a fire which she still carries the scars. But she is a strong female lead and a great mother to her four year old son. I simply loved that part of the story.
But then there are the Whispers and an amazing paranormal twist. The dead want to come back. Rose has some abilities that she is going to have to acknowledge and some nightmares she is going to have to face. Her family has a specific skill and she is going to learn to use it.
I strongly recommend checking this book out. You have a great paranormal thriller that will have you creeped out and swept up in the rush to the end.
I received a complimentary copy of this book. I voluntarily chose to read and post an honest review.
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