For today’s blog post, I’ve asked Bryce Decker from Laura Simmons' Tough Karma: A Race Against Time to tell us more about his beautiful cousin Amber. Without further ado, take it away Bryce…
I must be crazy
to talk my beautiful cousin, Amber, into moving in with me. I’m afraid if I
leave her alone to grieve over her dead husband and baby, that she will kill
herself. It’s only temporary, and once she comes to terms with what has
happened, she will move back to her apartment.
My problem is
that I’m in love with her and I know that we are not blood relatives. I don’t
have proof yet, but a friend of mine is a doctor and my brother, Luke, and
Amber’s sister, Jenny, are having a DNA test done to prove we are not
related. It’s embarrassing that they can
read me so easily and know how I feel, but at the same time I’m grateful to
them. Amber doesn’t know about this, and I’m not going to say anything until I
know for a fact that we aren’t biological cousins.
Even though she’s
grieving right now, I see the way she looks at me sometimes. Just last night we
shared a bottle of wine and a dip in the hot tub and she got tipsy. She
confessed that if we weren’t related, she would be all over me. I politely
changed the subject for fear I would do something I would later regret, like
kiss her. Those test results can’t get
here soon enough.
Another thing
which is bothering me is if Amber and I start a romantic relationship, how much
of my past should I confess?
She doesn’t know
that until recently I worked for Luke’s underground gambling club. I was the
collector who roughed up people who couldn’t pay their debts to the club. If
that wasn’t bad enough, I referred people to Luke’s hitman contacts for a fee.
She also doesn’t know that her dead husband, James, came to me to put a hit on
her when he found out that she was pregnant. He didn’t want his significant
other, Holly, to find out he had been cheating on her. He didn’t know that
Amber was my cousin.
If I hadn’t threatened
to kill him myself, he might have hired someone else to kill Amber and I
couldn’t let that happen. I put the fear of God into him and he married her. I
don’t think I’ll say anything. I don’t want her to suffer more emotional pain,
and dead men don’t talk anyway. For the record, I didn’t kill James. He dropped
dead from a heart attack at work.
It pains me to
see Amber so unhappy. I’ll do anything to bring back her smile.
Laura Simmons grew up in northern Virginia
and spent most of her career working for various Department of Defense
contractors in the Washington, DC
area. She has a fascination with all things metaphysical. She enjoys writing,
jigsaw puzzles, adult coloring books, vacationing at the beach with her
husband, and studying tarot cards and other types of divination systems.
Website: http://www.littlebitsofkarma.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thekarmaseries
Astral travel and a
deadly secret make for a gripping paranormal romance from start to finish.
Amber Macklin's world is cruelly shattered when she loses
her baby girl three months after her husband's sudden death. Her cousin, Bryce,
comes to her rescue, moving her into his home for fear she will kill herself
from the grief. He provides solace and a shoulder to cry on, and he has loved
her as more than a cousin for a long time. Amber and Bryce soon discover they
are not blood relatives, which opens the door for romance as he pulls her
through her darkest hours. When Mike, a college friend of Bryce's, stops by to
visit, Amber senses a deadly secret behind his nice guy persona. She has a
frightening dream that Mike is trying to kill her and recurring sleepwalking
episodes where she draws detailed pictures of him torturing her. Deeply
troubled, Bryce uses his ability to astral travel to investigate Mike and
uncover his terrifying past. Mike has had his eye on Amber for some time, and
when he learns that Bryce and Amber have become lovers, he is furious. Mike
abducts Amber and takes her to his rural Georgia
hideaway, and Bryce must rely on his astral abilities to track her down. But
will he be too late?
