Carl is a depressed man who seems to have it all. At least on the surface. He has a successful career as a producer for television shows and has no worries where money is concerned. Yet, he is still living in the same house that he grew up in. Now in his thirties, he has remained single with no real romantic prospects in sight. Maybe all of that is why he jumped at the chance to regain his youth and the love of his life when she suddenly reappeared after so many years.
Yes, Carl knew it was weird when Jessica stood outside his window late that night throwing pebbles at his bedroom window just as she had when they were seniors in high school. On the other hand, she looked so beautiful standing there and he could not seem to say no to her when she dragged him into the green house where they had made love on many occasions back in the day. His mouth refused to ask the questions that his mind demanded answers to because he wanted her in the worst way.
It was only after they had made love that he allowed himself to wonder why Jessica was here after all these years. Why did she look almost exactly the same as she had the last time he had seen her nearly 15 years ago? The biggest question was why was she acting as if they were still in high school?
The answers that Carl discovers are both horrifying and sad.
Author Phoef Sutton is no stranger to the craft of writing. He is a multi-published novelist, and an award winning playwright, television producer and screenwriter. In FIFTEEN MINUTES TO LIVE, he has shown the world exactly what he is capable of when it comes to psychologically, suspenseful mysteries. I was quickly drawn deeply into this woeful, mysterious tale of Jessica and wanted nothing more than to discover what was going on with her and why.
FIFTEEN MINUTES TO LIVE has everything that any reader could hope to find in a book. There is plenty of suspense and many mysteries to go around as even once Jessica's secret is revealed, there are even more puzzles to be solved. This is a plot that will stay with you long after you have closed the book. I continued to find myself wondering what it would feel like to be in Jessica's position and discovered that I truly had no idea.
If you are a fan of captivating and haunting books, you must not miss FIFTEEN MINUTES TO LIVE. When you open it to the first page, prepare to be amazed, mystified, educated and, in the end, appalled at what people do to each other all in the name of love.
The outrageously inventive, exhilarating, sexually-charged
thriller from Emmy Award-winning writer Phoef Sutton.
Carl moved into his childhood home after his parents died.
Itβs a house filled with fond memoriesβ¦like when he was a
teenager and his girlfriend Jesse would throw pebbles at
his
window at night to lure him outside for frantic sex. So he
thinks heβs dreaming when late one night, he hears those
pebbles hitting his window againβ¦and there she is outside,
aching for his touch. Itβs only as they are ravaging each
other again that he realizes itβs too good to be a dream.
Itβs her. Sheβs back as if nothing has changed. But it
has.
For one thing, itβs been twenty years since high school.
And
she died three weeks ago.
Is she an imposter? A ghost? Or is the answer even more
chilling? Itβs just the beginning of a dangerous,
unpredictable, and bizarre odyssey for them bothβ¦where
nothing is what it seems⦠and every minute counts.
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