Featuring women’s speculative fiction My Dead True Love by Kim Pierce
When a newspaper reporter’s fiancé dies abruptly, she questions how he could just cease to be.
Dogged by unbidden thoughts, odd coincidences and unexplained phenomena, Ann Stewart becomes obsessed with finding out what really happens after we die and whether her beloved Gregory is still out there. She finds her answer, which takes her and a close-knit coterie of women to the edge of the cosmos—and the core of their own hearts.
Based on a true story.
Excerpt from My Dead True Love
“It was definitely Gregory,” Connie declared, forcing herself to return to the vision. “As clear as if he were standing next to me. Smiling.”
“If you saw him”—and I still wasn’t believing—“did he see you? Did he see me?”
It made no sense, but I had to know more.
“I don’t know. I tried to un-see him. I really did,” she said, turning to me, something akin to terror twisting her face. “This ‘seeing’ is a part of me that triggers so much shame—and reactivates the trauma. Like shell shock.” Red mottling crept up Connie’s neck and onto her cheeks.
She saw him. The words slid off my brain as if she were speaking in tongues. What did that mean?
“Could it have been your imagination?” I offered wanly, not wanting that to be the case.
“Yes, I suppose it could.”
Neither of us believed it.
I waited.
“What would it mean for you to ‘see’ him?” I pressed.
Tell me. Even if it makes no sense.
“That there’s something wrong with me,” came her acrid reply. “Deeply, terribly wrong. At least that’s what my father would say. And a lot of other people who make judgments about what I can do.” She slammed the car into park a little too aggressively.
“There’s nothing wrong with you,” I said, getting out of the car.
Connie shut down.
“I need to go home for a while,” she said.
Tell. Me. More.
About Kim Pierce
Kim Pierce is a former Dallas Morning News writer and editor who completed the Writer’s Path fiction program at Southern Methodist University. My Dead True Love is her first novel, inspired by events surrounding the death of her fiancé in 1998. She lives in Dallas, Texas, with her partner and three cats.
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Thank you so much for hosting! This is my very first tour stop. It’s very exciting to be here.
Have you ever had an experience where someone touches you from across the veil?
I love to read about and watch things about the paranormal .
This might be right up your alley. Nearly everything that happens in the novel has a basis in things that really happened when my love died. Or, I took from other people’s experiences, like Robert Monroe’s (author of Journeys Out of the Body).
This story reminds me of P.S.I Love You from Cecilia Ahern
I don’t know this book. I will definitely look it up.
I’m going to step away from the keyboard for about 45 minutes. But I’ll be back!
Sounds like a great read.
I hope you like it. Check out the website to learn a little more about my background and how I came to write this.
And I should give you the website: mydeadtruelove.com
Great excerpt and giveaway. 🙂
Sounds like a really good book.
nice excerpt
An intriguing synopsis and excerpt, this sounds like an emotional and interesting story. Thank you for sharing your bio and book details and for offering a giveaway
Great excerpt, My Dead True Love sounds like a book that I won’t be able to put down!
Thanks for sharing it with me and have a fabulous week!
Your comment made my day. I hope you like it.
The excerpt was interesting. I like the cover because it gives the reader a glimpse of the plot!
The cover designer Eric Labacz wil be so pleased to hear that.