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Detective Inspector Nick Lewis is a rational man—he doesn’t believe in ghosts, spirits, or anything that goes bump in the night.
Nick shifted in his seat, searching for a scrap of comfort on the rigid plastic chair. The heat in the community centre didn’t help; he’d already shed his jacket, draping it behind him, but the warmth wasn’t the real source of his discomfort. A slow flush crept up his neck, the kind that had nothing to do with temperature and everything to do with being there, of all places. He dreaded someone recognising him as a detective. He’d never hear the end of it.
When Kerry first invited him, he’d pictured a handful of curious locals turning up. Instead, the hall was crammed, and more people were squeezing through the doors, scanning for empty seats. His sixteen-year-old daughter sat beside him, bright-eyed, vibrating with anticipation. At the same time, he quietly regretted every life choice that had brought him to this moment.
He glanced around, genuinely baffled that so many believed Mystic Jenny, the woman standing at the front, could communicate with the dead. To him, the whole thing ranged somewhere between wishful thinking and outright fraud. What unsettled him more was seeing his daughter so invested, so sure. The growing murmurs of excitement around him pressed in from all sides.
Introduction:
This is a nightmare. The roar of the sirens blares in her ears. Pound, pound, pound… Two paramedics fumble across the ambulance. Screeching in her head, like a hammer, a drill, a bomb.
Pound, pound, pound… A face mask covers her mouth. But she gags and something crawls up through her throat.
Pound, pound, pound. She rips the mask off her face and vomits.
POUND, POUND, POUND. Blood.
POUND, POUND, POUND. A stranger yells at her, but all she hears is the buzzing.
POUND, POUND, POUND! The overhead light glows brighter and brighter.
POUND, POUND, POUND! Her eyes roll backward.
POUND POUND POUN—
The novel Mrs. Wallenberg opens in 1997 with the aged if still feisty Berber Smit recalling the sizzling love affair she had half a century earlier with the greatest hero of the Holocaust. Nor does she stop there, giving an insider’s account of what made Raoul Wallenberg the legend he is today.
EXCERPT: Chapter I. The Pages of My Heart
April 1997
Aberdeen, Scotland
Join me in a story from days gone by that, if you can get past my handwriting, you won’t soon be forgetting.
To look at its author is to see a wrinkling old woman, hair as faded and brittle as pressed flowers. But don’t hold your breath waiting for me to complain. I was twenty once, and by most accounts a beauty—five-foot-nine, hair the yellow of ripe wheat, lips bee-stung, eyes emerald—but nobody save she condemned to die before her time escapes the insults of old age.
It’s enough that a merciful Providence has condescended to keep my memory young. And what memories they are! Of a momentous, murderous era, a time when darkness swept the land, and of a man who in his courage, his compassion, dared raise a lamp against that darkness—a man who, until they stole him from my arms, I had the great good fortune of calling my lover.
This is the third book in a series of three written to teach young girls about the opportunities they have in today’s world and that they can do absolutely anything they dream of.
This book covers true stories with snippets of lives of young women across different cultures that through bravery and pure grit made great accomplishments and rose to great heights accomplishing things no one thought they could. It teaches about the importance of doing the right thing and being brave during very dangerous times throughout time.
A great read for educational purposes as well as inspirational. Great for classrooms and a confidence builder for your special girl.