Olivia Callahan Suspense, Book Two
Psychological Suspense / Crime Thriller
Released: March 2022
Publisher: Level Best Books
After an assault that landed her in the hospital as a Jane Doe two years
earlier, Olivia Callahan has regained her speech, movement, and much of the
memory she lost due to a traumatic brain injury. The media hype about the
incident has faded away, and Olivia is ready to rebuild her life, but her
therapist insists she must continue to look back in order to move forward.
The only person that can help her recall specifics is her abusive
ex-husband, Monty, who is in prison for murder. The thought of talking to
Monty makes her skin crawl, but for her daughters’ sake and her own
sanity, she must learn more about who she was before the attack.
Just as the pieces of her life start falling into place, she stumbles
across the still-warm body of an old friend who has been gruesomely
murdered. Her dream of pursuing a peaceful existence is shattered when she
learns the killer left evidence behind to implicate her in the murder. The
only person that would want to sabotage her is Monty—but he’s in
prison! Something sinister is going on, and Olivia is desperate to figure it
out before another senseless murder is committed.
Other books in the Olivia Callahan Suspense series:
The Deadening
Olivia Callahan Suspense, Book One
Olivia Callahan’s quiet, orderly life is shattered when she regains
consciousness in a hospital and discovers she is paralyzed and cannot
remember a thing. The fragmented voices she hears around her help her piece
together that an apparent assault landed her in the hospital, but nobody
knows who attacked her, or why. After a chilling struggle to survive, she
awakens from a coma unable to remember what happened to her or anything at
all, except she has been told she is an entirely different person. Or is
she?
Now, in spite of a brain injury that has rewired her personality, Olivia is
on a mission to reclaim her life. As clarity surfaces and she starts to
understand who she was, she is shocked. Had she really been that person? And
if so, does she want her old life back?
Excerpt
My mind stalled. Paranoia curdled in my gut. My fingers clenched the
armrests. I eased myself from the chair.
My still-unpredictable brain flipped me back to my hospital room eighteen
months prior, where for five weeks I’d counted each step my legs could
manage. Mechanically, I started counting. One step. Two steps. Three.
Don’t look down! Keep going! Four steps. Almost there! Then you can
look down!
Five. Five. Five…I looked down.
A scream exploded from my lips and vibrated all the way down to my bones.
Automatically, I pulled out my cell to call 911, but…slowly put it
back in my purse. I took a deep breath. Just hang on a minute. What would
Hunter do?
What should I do?
I made a strangled sound in the back of my throat.
One thing you won’t do, Olivia Callahan, is nothing!
Earl lay behind his desk, staring at the ceiling. The tears came when
I realized that he’d dressed up for me…like I’d dressed
up for him. He’d even worn a vest, but his shirt was pulled out and
the dark red of his blood had saturated his shirt, the vest, the floor.
“Ohmigod , Earl,” I breathed.
About the Author
Kerry Peresta is the author of the Olivia Callahan Suspense series. Book
One, THE DEADENING, released in 2021 and Book Two, THE RISING, released in
2022, both by Level Best Books. She is currently working on the third,
fourth, and fifth books in the series. Kerry spent thirty years in
advertising as an account manager, creative director, copywriter, and
editor. She began writing full-time in 2009 as a humor columnist for a daily
newspaper, and in 2012, she moved to the Baltimore area and became chapter
president of the Maryland Writer’s Association, where she became an
active participant in the writing community. After moving to Hilton Head
Island, SC in 2015, Kerry joined the Island Writers Network, the Sisters in
Crime organization, South Carolina Writers Association, and became a
presenter for the Pat Conroy Literary Center. Kerry and her husband enjoy
their wonderful flock of grandkids, and indulgently endure two annoying
cats. Find out more about Kerry at kerryperesta.net.
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