Author : Demelza Carlton
Evil
should never be necessary. Except when it is.
"And now in breaking news, Caitlin
Lockyer has been found. In the early hours of this morning, a man discovered
her body dumped on a south-west beach. A police spokesperson would not confirm
whether the girl known as the Absent Angel is alive or dead..."
They called her an angel. No one thought to
ask what kind.
Burning for retribution, now she'll stop at
nothing.
Can it truly be evil when it feels so good?
A
tiny taste of what's in store:
Don't get into cars with strangers.
So stupid to think I was strong enough to
resist.
But I never dreamed it would happen to me.
I tried to back away, but the b**** behind
me didn't let me. She hit my diaphragm with the heel of her hand, forcing my
breath out in a huff. Unable to breathe, the street stood still in my mind as I
stared around, desperately hoping for someone to see - someone who'd help me.
Did eyes meet mine? Did I imagine understanding? If it was, it came too late.
The burning flare that was my need to breathe exploded and she shoved me into
the car. I fell on flesh encased in fabric as I gasped for breath, a flailing
fish in the pervert's lap as I lay across the back seat. I dimly heard the
doors and windows shut. The motor hummed as the car accelerated away - before I
had enough air to scream.
Nightmares
Trilogy
This is the second book in Demelza
Carlton's Nightmares Trilogy, as dark, disturbing and downright scary as the
first, Nightmares of Caitlin Lockyer.
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Demelza Carlton – Author Bio
Demelza
Carlton has always loved the ocean, but on her first snorkelling trip she found
she was afraid of fish.
She
has since swum with sea lions, sharks and sea cucumbers and stood on
spray-drenched cliffs over a seething sea as a seven-metre cyclonic swell
surged in, shattering a shipwreck below.
Sensationalist
spin? No - Demelza tends to take a camera with her so she can capture and share
the moment later; shipwrecks, sharks and all.
Demelza
now lives in Perth, Western Australia, the shark attack capital of the world.
The
Ocean's Gift series was her first foray into fiction, followed by the
Nightmares trilogy.
Contact links:
Website: http://www.demelzacarlton.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/DemelzaCarlton
Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/DemelzaCarlton
Guest Post :
What to do when your plot goes down the toilet
Never set an important scene in a toilet.
No one wants to read or see anything that happens in a toilet.
I guess I never was good at following the
rules, even this one. I'm not the only one, either.
Some of the best action scenes take place
in toilets. There's a brilliant fight sequence with Arnold Swarzenegger in the
film, True Lies, that takes place in
a public men's toilet. He makes use
of the urinals, the hand basins and the hand dryer to clean up a bunch of
terrorists.
J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books and
subsequent films set several important scenes in toilets. The troll battle
sequence that cements Rob, Harry and Hermione's friendship in the first book
takes place in a girls' toilet, as do several scenes to do with the Chamber of
Secrets.
In Jurassic
Park, who can forget the scene where the Tyrannosaurus rex eats a man
sitting on a toilet? A key element of humour in what is quite a gory, horrible
scene. Yet it works.
I knew there were some particularly
powerful scenes in my Nightmares Trilogy that simply had to take place in
toilets. In Nightmares of Caitlin Lockyer, the first book, there's one about
trust – where we see Caitlin choosing to trust Nathan. Much later on, there's a
key action sequence that takes place in a toilet, which had some of my readers
swearing at me. In between the f-words, I understood this was because of what I
had shown…but also because I only showed half the scene, which is what Nathan
saw. The other half he didn't witness, so he can't explain what happened.
In Necessary
Evil of Nathan Miller, the whole scene appears – but in a very different
light, as it's from Caitlin's perspective. Oddly enough, none of my readers
have been angry at the way Caitlin relates this sequence of events.
Picking such an unusual setting for key
plot points highlights them in a way that they stick in your mind. A romantic
scene…in a toilet? A horror scene…with toilet paper?
As I was writing both of these two books,
every time I ventured into a toilet, public or otherwise, these key scenes
would run through my head. How would Caitlin react when Nathan tries to kiss
her in a toilet? And what happens when Nathan leaves her
hidden and unarmed in a toilet, as the people who tried to kill her come to
finish the job?
Given that my Nightmares Trilogy is most
definitely in the suspense thriller genre, I believe I'll leave you in suspense
on this one – for Caitlin surprised me, her hero, Nathan, and I hope she can
surprise you as well.
Thanks for your continued support and for hosting Demelza today
ReplyDeleteYou are welcome!!
DeleteThank you for hosting Nathan, Caitlin and I today - even if it did include the worst of my toilet humour :D
ReplyDeleteLol!! You are very welcome and its my pleasure :)
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