"If you had the chance to relive the past, would you take it?"
Reviewed by Lynn Cunningham
Posted July 8, 2015
Suspense | Thriller
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.
SUMMARY
The outrageously inventive, exhilarating, sexually-charged
thriller from Emmy Award-winning writer Phoef Sutton. Carl moved into his childhood home after his parents died.
It’s a house filled with fond memories…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 he’s dreaming when late one night, he hears those
pebbles hitting his window again…and there she is outside,
aching for his touch. It’s only as they are ravaging each
other again that he realizes it’s too good to be a dream. It’s her. She’s back as if nothing has changed. But it
has.
For one thing, it’s 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? It’s just the beginning of a dangerous,
unpredictable, and bizarre odyssey for them both…where
nothing is what it seems… and every minute counts.
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