Commas and Quotations is a great site to visit if you want to find books. They post the first chapter, the cover image and the links if you want to buy or learn more. Today they posted the first chapter of my novel Chasing Nightmares. Check it out!
CHAPTER 1
Lee Taylor watched the second hand travel toward the twelve. Then, for the first time, he moved. With a stealth nearly equal to the movement of the clock, he lifted his arms up off his bed and held them in front of his eyes.
White swathes of gauze circled his wrists.
Memory returned in ebony waves. The ride in the night, the scream of tires, sparks from the scrape of steel across asphalt, the blade of the knife as he slit through white skin to dark blood. All the scenes played back in slow motion. He fought the memories. His tensed arms shook until he no longer had the strength to hold them up.
He became still again, wishing he could turn off all awareness. The door opened and footsteps entered the bedroom. Still turned away, he knew someone looked down on him.
A cold finger tilted his face toward his visitor.
“There seems to be a little improvement in your color this afternoon,” Charles commented. “How does it feel to be alive?”
For an instant, hate flared within Lee. Buried deep, the ember of emotion glowed red but he would not allow it to gather fuel. Deliberately, he willed his body to relax, inviting back the apathy of before.
READ THE REST AT Commas and Quotations: Chasing Nightmares by Deb Donahue.