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The Beginning Comes Quietly

The Beginning Comes Quietly, October 2014
The Dawning
by Susan JP Owens

The Wild Rose Press
Featuring: Cole MacLeod; Peyron Adams
73 pages
ISBN: 1628304901
EAN: 9781628304909
Kindle: B00NKP7Z8C
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"Visions of a serial killer may be the death of her"

Fresh Fiction Review

The Beginning Comes Quietly
Susan JP Owens

Reviewed by Shellie Surles
Posted October 26, 2014

Romance Contemporary

Peyton Adams has decided to go stay with her best friend so she can work on finishing her most recent screen play. Payton has been tortured by visions of a man murdering women; it causes her headaches and black-outs, she is hoping the visit to the wilderness will help her. Peyton is afraid one day she will never come back from her black- outs.

Upon arriving at her friend's house Peyton see her best friend's brother Cole. Shocked and upset she tries to play off seeing her former fiancé. Things did not end well between them.

Cole is happy to see Peyton he has been thinking hard about things between them and wants to make it right. Only something is wrong with her and she won't tell him.

As the visions worsen and the end draws nearer for Payton can Cole help her to survive the attacks on her mind and body before it is too late.

Peyton is a great character that has a new talent that may killer her and you have to appreciate her dealing with. Cole's sister and her husband are also good characters and play an important role in the story. Cole on the other hand comes off as quite a jerk at first. His half-ass excuse for breaking things off makes you want to kick in the soft spots. He does however make up for it in the end.

It's an interesting group of people with an intriguing story line. My problems with this story is the author tends to jump forward a bit too much and suddenly, leaving holes in the story. Cole well as I've mentioned, is not the man you'd fall over. And it is never explained why Peyton was target to begin with, no I saw you and decided I would ruin your life or other creepy thing.

Susan JP Owens has a great idea with THE BEGINNING COMES QUIETLY, and potential for many more intriguing stories. I just hope she decided to make them a little longer and gives herself more room to explore the backgrounds of the characters and reasons for the plot. There were some seriously steamy scenes in THE BEGINNING COMES QUIETLY.

I'm intrigued to see what Susan JP Owens writes in her next story and look forward to reading it.

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SUMMARY

Peyton Adams has two secrets. One, she's plagued by visions of gruesome slayings, yet is helpless to save the victims. Two, she's still in love with her ex-fiancé, even though he broke her heart.

Little does defense attorney, Cole MacLeod, know when he accepts a serial killer case that it will turn into a chase of life and death for the one woman who still holds his heart. Although he hurt Peyton years ago, he never stopped loving her.

Now, a dangerous adversary is toying with Peyton's mind. Ultimately her thoughts are being controlled, and she experiences the excruciating torture of each victim. With every murder, the deranged maniac gains strength and taunts Peyton about her inevitable death.

Can Cole erase the pain he caused and claim the woman he loves. Or, will a madman end Peyton’s life before he has the chance to figure out how the psychopath is wielding this gruesome power and prevent him from claiming anymore lives, including the love of his life?


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