Quiet the Waves

                                                          QUIET THE WAVES

Michael Ross

 

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GENRE:  Romantic Thriller

 

 

BLURB:

 

For Ryan Gould it's just another pay day, collect a car from Portugal deliver it to the UK. Nothing too complicated - until he decides on an unscheduled stopover in Northern France, in the city of Rennes, a quiet drink in the town square, where life would have turned out so differently if he not noticed the girl sitting on the bench was sobbing her heart out.

 

From there onwards his life twists and turns out of control until he finds himself in police custody charged with abduction and a journey to get to the truth. The girl on the bench, Claire, had misled him from the very beginning; who was she, and how had she managed to wreak so much havoc in his life?

 

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Excerpt

What the hell is up with me? Have I no mind of my own? I kneel on the cobblestones and throw her my most sympathetic smile. Hopefully she recognises the sincerity.

         

For the first time she lifts her head and looks me in the face, well in the eyes actually - and I’m smitten. She is attractive with piercing light grey eyes that meet mine head on. I was right she is no more than thirty years old, with jet black hair that does not quite match her very pale skin.

 

I ease myself up to a standing position. “Look, if nothing else, let me buy you a drink. I’ll bugger off if you want to be on your own. I’m not hassling you, just trying to offer a bit of support.” I do my best to sound earnest because it’s the truth. Her pain is so obvious it is impossible to ignore. All at once I remember I have an almost full pack of tissues in my pocket. I take a couple out and pass them to her along with the rest of the pack.

 

“Here. Blowing your nose wouldn’t hurt just now.” Her angry expression dissipates when she sees the smile on my face.

 

“I tell you what,” I say “I’m going to get a Coke at the café over there. If you want to come and share a Coke or something, that would be great.”

 

Her head drops and she mumbles incoherently.

 

“Sorry, what did you say?”

 

“A large latte would be good.” Her voice is both delicate and cultured.

 

“No problem. Come over whenever you want.”

 

I walk back to my table, fully aware that for some crazy reason my heart is beating as if I sprinted across the square. I purposely sit facing away from her direction, the last thing I want is to come across as a stalker. 

A Word With The Author

1.Did you always want to be an author? Big NO there. I started a university course in English Literature very late in life, it lit a fuse under me. I then started creative writing classes and surprised myself at my ability to write.

2.Tell us about the publication of your first book. I am so proud of my first novel ‘Hand Over Fist,’ in my opinion it is a cracking read, however, I made the mistake of granting the publishing rights to the first publisher that came along who were not equipped for promoting a British based thriller. It’s on Amazon 0.99 - go read and tell me if I’m wrong. 

3.Besides yourself, who is your favorite author in the genre you write in? I straddle all genres, but I do love short stories, so Alice Munro is a go to. 

4.What's the best part of being an author? Unlocking stuff stuffed away in my brain that I never had the faintest idea was there in the first place. The worst? The pay.

5.What are you working on now? The third book in the Pin-up and Tanner series, about halfway through and it’s shaping up to be as good as ‘Hand Over Fist,’ but I’m not rushing it. I have also about a dozen short stories ready to be part of my sixth anthology

 

 

 

 

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

 

Born and raised in Bristol, England I now live halfway up a mountain in the Welsh Valleys, with my partner Mari and our rescue dog Wenna. I have a BA in English Literature from Bristol Uni and after creative writing classes at Cardiff Uni I won prizes for short stories. I write with a smile on my face.

 

I have self-published (including Quiet the Waves) five short story anthologies and five novels

 

Website http://www.michaelrosswriter.com 

Facebook www.facebook.com/michaelross.writer 

Twitter https://twitter.com/mikerosswriter 

Email mikerosswriter@outlook.com 

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Quiet-Waves-there-wrong-person-ebook/dp/B0D7TG2564/ref=sr_1_1 FREE ON KINDLE UNLIMITED

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