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Alicia
Dean’s Novella, The Twelfth Day:
Blurb:
As a teen, party girl Sabrina
Spencer was the lone survivor of a serial killer’s attack on her
family. Her testimony put the killer behind bars, and she
spent the following decade carving out a new life and trying to
forget.
But someone hasn’t forgotten. Two weeks
before Christmas, she begins receiving daily
packages containing bizarre gifts and threatening messages
with demented references to the Twelve Days of Christmas.
Handyman Josh Cravens is remodeling the lake
house she rents each year to escape the painful reminders Christmas
brings. While his dimples and blue eyes are hard to resist, he’s the exact kind
of player she’s been avoiding since she outgrew her wild
days. But the isolated cabin and threatening messages boost her
paranoia to fever pitch.
As Christmas draws closer, she’s torn
between finding comfort in Josh’s arms, and fear that he might be behind
the twisted countdown to the twelfth day.
Excerpt:
Sabrina ended the call
with Halley and was about to shut down the laptop when the song started.
Holding her breath, she warily eyed the screen. A note appeared.
On
the sixth day of Christmas…
You
cheated death a decade ago, but time is running out.
She let out a scream and
jumped from the chair.
Footsteps pounded. She
glanced back to see Josh and Dustin standing behind her.
Josh frowned at the
screen. “What’s that all about?”
She slammed the laptop
shut. “Nothing.”
“You’re trembling. It’s
not nothing. Tell me.”
She wrapped her arms
around her body. “I-I really don’t know what it is. I’ve been getting these
crazy messages.”
Josh’s frown deepened.
“That’s not the first one?”
She shook her head.
“Have you called the
police?”
“And tell them what? That
somebody, I have no idea who, is sending me creepy messages?”
“After what happened to
you, don’t you think this might be a little more than that?”
Her cheeks were numb, and
she had trouble forming words. “The killer is behind bars.”
Dustin’s eyes rounded.
“The killer? Is there a killer?”
Sabrina forced a
reassuring smile. “No, there’s no killer. Everything is fine.”
His confused expression
turned petulant. “Don’t lie to me. Are you in trouble, Sabrina?”
“I’m not lying. There’s
something a little…freaky going on, but I’m sure it’s nothing to worry about.”
Josh pulled out a chair
and sat at the table. “Maybe you should tell us everything.”
Sabrina sat as well and
explained what had been going on since the day she arrived at the cabin.
By the time she finished,
Josh’s scowl had become ferocious. “I don’t like this. Not at all.”
“I’m a high school
teacher. I’m sure it’s just one of the kids playing a prank.”
“It’s not a very damn
funny prank.”
She grinned without
humor. “I never said it was funny.”
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About Alicia:
Alicia Dean is a suspense and paranormal author in Edmond, Oklahoma. She wrote her first romance at age 11 (featuring a hero who looked just like Elvis Presley), and she still has the tattered, pencil-written copy.
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