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Highway Thirteen to Manhattan
By Kourtney Heintz
The Six Train to Wisconsin Series, Book Two
Publisher: Aurea
Blue Press
Date of
Publication: 11/1/2016
Genre: Paranormal
and Suspense
Number of pages:
420
Word Count: 94,000
ISBN:
978-0989132688
ASIN: TBA
Cover Artist:
Creative Paramita
About the book:
His
secrets almost killed her. Her secrets may destroy them both.
Kai
is recovering from a near-death experience when she realizes something isn’t
right. Her body is healing, but her mind no longer feels quite like her own.
Her telepathic powers are changing, too. She can’t trust herself. The darkness
growing inside of her pushes her to use her telepathy as a weapon.
Oliver
clings to the hope that he can save their marriage, even though he was the one who
put her life in jeopardy. As his wife slips further and further away from him,
he becomes increasingly obsessed with bringing the man who ruined his life to
justice.
The
sequel to The Six Train to Wisconsin is a genre-defying tale of love and
consequences. Once again, award-winning author Kourtney Heintz seamlessly
weaves suspense and paranormal intrigue into a real-world setting, creating
characters rich in emotional and psychological complexity.
Excerpt from CHAPTER 1KaiLike most daughters, I loved my parents, but right now, I wanted them anywhere but here. Hospitals are always hard, but my parents managed to make it harder. My head was already pounding from all the thoughts and emotions coming at me. Not just from the patients and their families and the doctors and the nurses, but also from my mother and father. Instead of shielding their thoughts and trying to make it better for me, they let their emotions crash into me.My mind wasn’t strong enough for all this. Neither was my body. Tubes eviscerated my right hand. A giant bruise blossomed beside the newest IV line. A cast wrapped around my left wrist. My broken pinky finger had been set and taped to my ring finger. The back of my head was held together with stitches. Beneath the blanket, my body was covered in bruises.I didn’t feel any physical pain because of the medications the doctors pumped into me. They said I needed it to recover, but it made my body feel like it wasn’t mine. And the steady drip of opiates didn’t just steal my physical pain; it left me unable to form the psychic shield I needed to protect myself from the misery swirling around me.Mom sat in the chair closest to my bed. She wore one of her flowing peasant blouses and faded jeans. Her hair was pulled back in a messy bun, and light brown strands slipped loose to hang around her face. The corners of her hazel eyes were pinched with worry.Her hand hovered over my arm, unsure where to touch me—if she should touch me.Finally, she laid her hand gently on my thigh. “You just need to rest here for a few more days.”She was wrong. I needed to get out of here. Away from all these thoughts as soon as possible. “I want to go home.”Mom shook her head. “You need to let the doctors help you.” Like they did last time.Her thoughts slammed into my brain. She thought hospitalization was the solution to everything.“Please. Look at what’s happened to you. You can’t go home until you’re better,” she said. I can’t lose you. I won’t let that happen.I didn’t know how to reassure her. Yes, I’d almost died, but being here was hurting me more than it was healing me. I swallowed all the words I wanted to say and hoped for Caleb to come back soon. My brother would know how to talk to Mom, how to make her understand.The doctor came in to check on me and Mom’s agonizing fear rose up. Don’t let her have brain damage.Dad patted Mom’s shoulder. He looked like an older, surfer version of Caleb. Both were tall and muscular with curly blond hair. Dad’s hair was a darker blond streaked with platinum from decades in the sun and salt water. His eyes were greener than Caleb’s, but like Caleb’s, they were rimmed with purple bruises. When Dad smiled, sun lines radiated from his eyes and cut across his cheeks. But I hadn’t seen them since he’d arrived at my bedside. Instead, waves of exhaustion rolled off him and rippled over me, right before I heard his thoughts. I can’t go through this again, watching you slip away.My younger sister Naomi lounged in the chair in the corner as far from me as she could get. She had Mom’s light brown hair and thin frame and Dad’s green eyes and height. She looked nothing like me and only distantly related to Caleb. Her long legs looped over the armrest as she flipped through a magazine. Thanks for ruining Christmas break. I’d rather be anywhere but here.I felt the same way.At least Oliver was gone for the moment. Mom had convinced him to go home, take a shower, maybe even sleep. I couldn’t bear his guilt; it was so thick it choked me.Oliver. My husband. God. I’d never loved and hated someone so much at the same time. I still couldn’t believe he’d called my parents. He knew how bad they were at handling me. How could he have thought that having my family here would be good for me?Bitterness frosted my thoughts. I was in a hospital, bruised and battered. I’d almost died. That’s what Caleb had said. He was the only one willing to tell me the truth. Oliver had said it was bad, but he wouldn’t say how bad. He couldn’t bear to admit what happened to me.
About the Author:
Kourtney Heintz writes award-winning cross genre
fiction that melds paranormal, suspense, and literary into an unforgettable
love story. For her characters, love is a journey never a destination. Her
debut novel, The Six Train to Wisconsin, has been on the Amazon Bestseller lists
for Psychic Mysteries and Paranormal and Urban Fantasy.
Kourtney
resides in Connecticut with her warrior lapdog, Emerson, and three quirky
golden retrievers. Years of working on Wall Street provided the perfect
backdrop for her imagination to run amuck at night, imagining a world where
out-of-control telepathy and buried secrets collide. As K.C. Tansley, she
writes bestselling YA time travel murder mysteries.
She
has been featured in the Republican American, on WTNH’s CT Style, and
Everything Internet on the radio. She has a B.S. in Business Administration
from Georgetown University with a double major in finance and international
business and a minor in Chinese. She received a Master of Pacific International
Affairs from the University of California, San Diego.
You
can find out more about Kourtney and her books at: http://kourtneyheintz.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/kourhei
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