Cobwebs - The Prologue ...and more

I am so thrilled to know Cobwebs, the mystery I'm worked on for so long, will soon be in print. I know everyone is wondering about this book, and in the next few weeks, until it is available through Amazon.com and all e books outlets, I'm going to tease you. Today's tease includes a few facts about the book, and the prologue.

Genre: Suspense-Mystery, with historical and romantic overtones
Setting: Pawhuska, Osage County, Oklahoma
Time period: Roughly, the year 2000, the first half of April.

Jamie Aldrich returns to the old Osage Capital of Pawhuska, Oklahoma, expecting to help her ill great aunt. Instead, she finds herself in a race to solve her aunt's attempted murder, uncover long buried family secrets and stop a plan for the ultimate vengence.

Prologue

“I’m going to tell her what I think . . . what I know,” Elizabeth Graham moaned.

             “Dearest, we’ve been over this. Don’t talk nonsense,” the familiar voice cooed to Elizabeth from the foot of her bed. 

She heard the words, and they sounded molasses thick, all soft and sweetened up. She’d been a damn fool all these years. But it wasn’t over yet, she still had hope. Jamie was coming. Her old eyes shifted to the bedroom window; outside, gray storm clouds piled up.

“Finish your soup. She’ll be here any minute.” 

 “No more.” Elizabeth jerked as pain gripped her. The spoon clattered in the bowl and chicken broth splashed out onto the silver-plated tray.

Fingers smoothed her thin white hair, and then swabbed a damp cloth across her forehead.  “There now. Better?”

“No.” She cleared the phlegm from her throat and repeated, louder, “No!”

“My, we’re in a temper today.” The tray was lifted away. “Calm down.” The figure faced her from the shadows. “And just what are you going to tell her?”

“The truth.”

The chuckle was soft and long. “After all these years?  She’ll think you’re senile. My dear Elizabeth, you’re not thinking straight. Telling her now, in your condition, would be a big mistake.”

 

Cobwebs, by Mary Coley, available Nov. 1 from Wheatmark, Inc.; Amazon.com and all e book outlets.