Addicted to Love
Dec 3, 2011
Author: C.J. West
Published: 22 West Books, October 2011
ISBN 10: 0-9767788-5-8
ISBN 13: 978-0-9767788-5-1
Description:
Wes Holiday sells his landscaping business and retreats to a quaint mountain town to heal after ending a ten year relationship with a woman he couldn’t bring himself to marry. In three weeks he is so captivated by a hair stylist that he deprives himself of food and sleep to be near her. When the local sheriff is murdered, Wes is recruited to keep the peace in the town his parents built, but he knows nothing about law enforcement and he’s struggling to understand how a woman he just met can dominate his every waking thought. Soon the idyllic town with a penchant for romance is rocked by a bizarre series of murders that defy explanation and it is up to Wes to stop a raging epidemic of violence.
What Idgie Says:
Addicted to Love - an interesting story! I can't say too much as I don't want to give anything away, but what starts out as a slightly "icky" over the top romance - Leah and Wes are so into each other that you can't help but wince a little - quickly turns into a story with glimpses of Robin Cook/Michael Crichton type moments. Things are not as they seem in this small town and it's getting weirder by the minute.
What's making the woman of the town turn into feral animals and attack the very men they had making googly eyes at only a short time before? Speaking of googly eyes - why is it that in such a small town the florist, jeweler and candy shop have lines around them filled with very contented men every day?
A good fast story with a whopper of a mystery and a nice sharp pace.
Clicking on the Excerpt link will also take you to the site where you can buy the book direct.
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Also check out The End of Marking Time by CJ. A very intense futuristic (don't know that it's sci-fi) novel of learning to change your ways...or die. Wow ending! I read this book when he was giving copies away to get the word out. It's now available in paperback or on Kindle.
Book Description
Gifted housebreaker, Michael O'Connor,
awakens inside an ultramodern criminal justice system where prison walls
are replaced by surveillance equipment and a host of actors hired to
determine if he is worthy of freedom. While he was sleeping, the Supreme
Court declared long term incarceration to be cruel and unusual
punishment and ordered two million felons released. The result was utter
chaos and the backlash from law-abiding citizens and police departments
reshaped the United States. Felons now enter reeducation programs where
they live freely among the population. At least that's what they think.
In reality they are enslaved to an army of counselors and a black box
that teaches them everything they failed to learn from kindergarten
through adulthood. Michael believes he's being tested by the black box,
but what he slowly begins to realize is that everything he does is
evaluated to determine whether he lives or dies.
