Book
Name: Third Eye
Author
Name: Rick R. Reed
Author
Bio & Contact:
Rick R. Reed is all about exploring the romantic
entanglements of gay men in contemporary, realistic settings. While his
stories often contain elements of suspense, mystery and the paranormal, his
focus ultimately returns to the power of love. He is the author of dozens of
published novels, novellas, and short stories. He is a three-time EPIC eBook
Award winner (for Caregiver,
Orientation and The Blue Moon Cafe). Raining Men and Caregiver
have both won the Rainbow Award for gay fiction. Lambda Literary Review has called
him, "a writer that doesn't disappoint." Rick lives in Seattle with
his husband and a very spoiled Boston terrier. He is forever "at work on
another novel."
Web: http://www.rickrreed.com
Blog: http://rickrreedreality.blogspot.com/
Facebook: www.facebook.com/rickrreedbooks
Twitter: www.twitter.com/rickrreed.
E-mail: jimmyfels@gmail.com
Web: http://www.rickrreed.com
Blog: http://rickrreedreality.blogspot.com/
Facebook: www.facebook.com/rickrreedbooks
Twitter: www.twitter.com/rickrreed.
E-mail: jimmyfels@gmail.com
Publisher: DSP Publications
Cover
Artist: Aaron Anderson
Blurb(s):
Who knew that a summer
thunderstorm and his lost little boy would conspire to change single dad Cayce
D’Amico’s life in an instant? With Luke missing, Cayce ventures into the woods
near their house to find his son, only to have lightning strike a tree near
him, sending a branch down on his head. When he awakens the next day in the
hospital, he discovers he has been blessed or cursed—he isn't sure which—with
psychic ability. Along with unfathomable glimpses into the lives of those
around him, he’s getting visions of a missing teenage girl.
When a second girl disappears soon after the first, Cayce realizes his visions are leading him to their grisly fates. Cayce wants to help, but no one believes him. The police are suspicious. The press wants to exploit him. And the girls' parents have mixed feelings about the young man with the "third eye."
Cayce turns to local reporter Dave Newton and, while searching for clues to the string of disappearances and possible murders, a spark ignites between the two. Little do they know that nearby, another couple—dark and murderous—are plotting more crimes and wondering how to silence the man who knows too much about them.
When a second girl disappears soon after the first, Cayce realizes his visions are leading him to their grisly fates. Cayce wants to help, but no one believes him. The police are suspicious. The press wants to exploit him. And the girls' parents have mixed feelings about the young man with the "third eye."
Cayce turns to local reporter Dave Newton and, while searching for clues to the string of disappearances and possible murders, a spark ignites between the two. Little do they know that nearby, another couple—dark and murderous—are plotting more crimes and wondering how to silence the man who knows too much about them.
Categories: Crime Fiction, Gay Fiction,
Horror, M/M Romance, Mystery, Thriller
Excerpt:
Cayce was just about to put the paper aside when
another article—and a familiar name in the byline—caught his eye. “Teenager
Reported Missing,” by Dave Newton. It wasn’t so much the headline that got his
attention but the picture of the young girl beneath it. Pretty. Long blonde
hair. And disturbingly familiar.
Even though Fawcettville was a small town, the
girl’s name, Lucy Plant, didn’t ring any bells. Perhaps Cayce had waited on her
at the Elite, the diner where he worked. But still, no specific recollection
came back. Cayce couldn’t visualize the girl sitting at the counter, nor at one
of the booths.
And yet she looked so familiar, as if she were
someone Cayce was friends with, or even a relative.
Cayce scanned the story. The girl had been reported missing
by her mother yesterday afternoon, just before the storm that had caused such a
turn in Cayce’s own life.
There were no clues. The girl, at least according to
her mother, could not possibly have been a runaway. “Lucy’s a good girl,” Amy
Plant had told Fawcettville police detective JT Simmons. “She wouldn’t even go
down the block to visit a friend without telling us first.”
The last time anyone had seen Lucy Plant was when
her mother looked outside the living room window. Lucy had been playing with her
Barbie dolls on the front lawn.
Cayce closed his eyes. He remembered, suddenly, the
storm coming, and not knowing where Luke was. He sympathized with the girl’s
mother and the panic she must have felt when she couldn’t locate her daughter.
A ceiling fan. Beneath his closed lids, Cayce saw a
ceiling fan. He didn’t know why. He didn’t own one himself, and the one in his
parents’ living room was an entirely different model from this one, which was
white, with a plain globe. His parents’ fan had four frosted-glass light
fixtures and faux wood blades.
Cayce kept his eyes closed, watching the ceiling fan
whirl, its blades blurring and becoming singular. There was something wrong
with the fan. It didn’t work quite right.
Cayce felt nauseated and opened his eyes. His face
was glazed with sweat. His stomach churned, and he was afraid he would vomit.
Why was seeing a ceiling fan so disturbing? Or was this some sort of
aftershock, an effect of his accident?
Cayce didn’t think so.
He glanced down at the face of Lucy
Plant and sucked in some air. “Oh my God,” he whispered, “she’s dead.”
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