Till Death Us Do
Part
Cristina Slough
Published by: Limitless Publishing
Publication date: December 29th 2015
Genres: Adult, Romance, Suspense
Cristina Slough
Published by: Limitless Publishing
Publication date: December 29th 2015
Genres: Adult, Romance, Suspense
The fateful day Mimi Marcus has dreaded begins with a phone call…
The wife of a U.S. Marine, Mimi spent countless nights
worried that her husband Joel would fall in the line of duty. He had fought
valiantly and served his country with honor. That’s exactly what they tell her
when they deliver the news—Joel was taken by the enemy in Afghanistan. Her
husband is dead.
In desperate need of closure, Mimi travels to the one
place Joel still has ties—The Marcus Ranch in Texas, inherited by his handsome
younger brother Austin.
New beginnings are only an
illusion…
The closer Mimi grows to the Marcus family, the more she
considers it home. But when suspicions of Joel’s past surface, Austin refuses
to disclose family secrets—even to his brother’s widow. It’s only by accident
she uncovers evidence of Joel’s tainted past. Devastated by his lies and
betrayal, she slowly opens up to Austin, and together they unfold layers of
pain and grief.
Mimi is sure she’ll never love again, but
is Austin the man to prove her wrong? Then the unthinkable happens…
Just as Mimi finds new hope in a future with Austin,
Joel returns home from war. Enraged, traumatized, and teetering on the edge of
insanity, Joel confesses to a history of deception, revealing yet another
secret—this one too terrible to forgive.
In an awful twist of fate, Joel proves marriage vows are
made to be honored.
No matter what.
EXCERPT:
Mimi had been
dreaming of a storm. Heavy rain, violent claps of thunder, and lightning
flashing simultaneously.
She saw Joel, reaching out for her, his body bloody and
wet. She awoke in the darkened room. It was 2:17 a.m.—the exact time she had
woken up for three nights in a row. She slipped out of bed, her pyjama bottoms
loose around her ever-shrinking waist. The air was freezing. She dashed across
the room to wrap herself in the fleecy dressing gown her mother had just bought
her for Christmas.
6:47 a.m. in Afghanistan.
Her stomach growled, begging for food. She couldn’t eat.
She clicked onto her Twitter feed to check for more updates since the suicide
bombing in Kabul, which had claimed at least six—two were American
Marines.
Mimi had contacted the Embassy several times, but nobody
could tell her anything. The pain of not knowing was taking away her ability to
breathe normally. The silence was too loud. She had tried to remember their
last conversation. Did she tell him that she loved him? Words so quick to fall
off the tongue to end a phone call. Love you—bye. Often she had felt like she
was holding a grenade—being the wife of a Marine, always waiting for a letter,
hearing his voice, waiting for news that he was alive or dead.
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Author Bio:
Novelist, movie addict, and animal lover, Cristina
Slough is the author of Till Death Us Do Part, her debut novel.
Cristina has always been a bookworm, rarely seen without
a pen and paper in her hand, she loves delving into a literacy fictional world
of her own.
At the age of 11, her junior school teacher told her
mother that she would be wasting her life if she didn’t become an author.
Throughout her teenage years and beyond, her parents spurred her on to keep
writing. She later began a career in commercial real estate, working in
London’s West End, a corporate bubble where she was unable to fuel her passion
to write.
It was on her Californian honeymoon in 2012 that the bug
to write was becoming increasingly difficult to ignore. After visiting Yosemite
National Park she was inspired by the natural beauty of the land that surrounded
her. Holding a special place in her heart, Yosemite would later be written into
her debut novel.
She finally gave up the ‘big smoke’ when her son, Lucas,
was born in October 2013.
When Lucas was a newborn, Cristina was told to sleep
when the baby sleeps. She never could. There was a calling inside her to write.
After getting to grips with her new role as a mother, she began working a
psychological thriller, but she couldn’t fully connect to the characters she
created. She ditched the manuscript and started Till Death Us Do Part
(Limitless Publishing, 2015).
Cristina is married to Adam, who runs a successful
business; together they share their Bedfordshire home with their son, crazy
white German Shepherd and three spoiled cats. They can be found trekking
through woodlands, or around the many shops Cristina loves to explore. As a
family, they love to travel frequently, the United States being a firm
favorite.
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