Review
& Excerpt Tour for THIS HAPPENED TO JESSICA by Michele Pariza
Wacek!
From bestselling author,
Michele Pariza Wacek comes the next book in her Secrets of Redemption
series, THIS HAPPENED TO JESSICA. Becca would like nothing better
than to put the past behind her, instead she races against time to
uncover the truth about what happened to Jessica before another
sixteen-year-old girl is doomed to the same fate. Fans of Nora
Roberts’ paranormal suspense novels, THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN by Paula
Hawkins and classic Stephen King will devour this psychological
thriller with an eerie twist of romantic suspense.
Title: This
Happened to Jessica
Release
Date: November
27, 2018
Publisher:
Love-Based
Publishing
Series:
Secrets of Redemption #2
Genre:
Psychological
thriller/mystery/romantic suspense
Synopsis:
Becca would like nothing better
than to put the past behind her and focus on making Redemption her
home. But what do you do when the past refuses to stay buried?
Becca
still can't remember the night sixteen-year-old Jessica disappeared
from a party, never to be seen again. Which is bad enough (especially
since she was supposedly the last person to see Jessica alive), but
it's not the worst …
Strange
events are making Becca think there's a link between what happened to
Jessica fifteen years ago and the darkness happening now.
With
help from her friends and her teenage crush, Daniel, Becca races
against time to uncover the truth about Jessica before another
sixteen-year-old girl is doomed to the same fate as Jessica.
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THIS
HAPPENED TO JESSICA Excerpt
Copyright
© 2018 Michele Pariza Wacek
Celia was looking
around the table with a bewildered expression on her face. "I
don't understand. Why does it matter if Jessica is related to
Brittany?"
"Because
Brittany looks like Jessica," Mia said.
Everyone fell
silent. A woman next to us burst into hysterical, high-pitched
laughter. Another table over, a group of college-aged guys started
chanting as one of their friends, wearing a Wisconsin Badger cap,
guzzled a pitcher of beer. Glasses clanked as they were plunked onto
tables.
"Not this
again," Celia breathed out, picking up her Cosmo and draining
it.
"What do you
mean, ‘not this again?’" Mia asked, her voice quiet, but
with a dangerous edge.
Barry put a hand on
Celia's arm. "Nothing. She means nothing." He glared at his
wife. Celia kept her mouth shut, but her sour expression spoke
volumes.
"Barry, let
her talk," Mia said. "What do you mean, 'not this again?'"
"You know what
I mean," Celia said. "It's been fifteen years. It's time to
let it go."
"Let it go?"
Mia said, her voice sounding even more quiet and dangerous. "Let
it go? Our friend disappeared! And we don't know what happened to
her!"
"First off,
I'm sure Jessica left on her own. Her stuff was gone ..."
"But, it
wasn't the right ..." Mia tried to interrupt, but Celia kept
going. "And even if something did happen, she's gone. Gone!"
Celia leaned forward. "I know this is difficult for you to hear,
but you're not going to heal unless you, all of you …" here
she looked around the table, "… accept it. She's gone. She's
been gone for fifteen years. She's not coming back. And no amount of
rehashing or talking about it is going to change that."
"She was our
friend," Mia said. "Don't you get that? How heartless can
you be?"
"I know she
was your friend and I know this is painful to hear. No, Barry, stop
it. Let me talk. This isn't healthy. It's not healthy to live in the
past and that's precisely what everyone here is doing. Someone has to
speak the truth and I guess that has to be me. I didn't know Jessica,
but I very much doubt she would want all of you still obsessing over
what happened to her fifteen years later. Besides, this has all
gotten worse since she," she nodded toward me, "came back.
We don't need to keep living in the past. Jessica is gone."
"I agree,"
Rich said, his deep voice cutting across the table. His voice was
quiet, but there was something about it that caused everyone to pay
attention. Maybe it was because he so seldom talked that when he
finally did, it was really noticed. "If we're not going to be
honest about what happened that night, then it makes no sense to keep
talking about it."
"What aren't
we being honest about?" Mia asked.
Rich stared at me,
his dark eyes glittering. "If we're honest, we know exactly who
to blame for that night."
Did he mean me? I
stared at Rich, dumbfounded. "What do you mean?"
His gaze didn't
flinch. "You know exactly what I mean."
You were the last
person to see Jessica alive. Daniel had told me that. And Daphne.
But, he couldn't possibly mean I had anything to do with Jessica's
disappearance. Could he?
Start
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The
first in her brand-new Secrets of Redemption series, bestselling
author, Michele Pariza Wacek brings you IT BEGAN WITH A LIE. Becca
was hoping for a fresh start for her troubled family, but instead,
she is thrust into a mysterious past she barely remembers, one that
threatens not only her sanity but her life. Fans of Nora Roberts’
paranormal suspense novels, GONE GIRL by Gillian Flynn and classic
Stephen King will devour this psychological thriller with an eerie
twist of romantic suspense.
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About Michele
PW:
Michele Pariza
Wacek (also known as Michele PW) taught herself to read at three
years old because she so badly wanted to write fiction. As an adult,
she became a professional copywriter (copywriters write promotional
materials for businesses, nothing to do with protecting intellectual
property or putting a copyright on something) and eventually founded
a copywriting and marketing company. She grew up in Madison,
Wisconsin and currently lives with her husband and dogs in the
mountains of Arizona. You can reach her at MicheleParizaWacek.com.
She’s published two novels, “The Stolen Twin” and “Mirror
Image,” both psychological thrillers/mystery/suspense books.
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