Frozen (Cassie Scot Book Seven)
Apparently, life doesn’t end when you get married.
When a couple freezes to death on a fifty degree day,
Cassie is called in to investigate. The couple ran a daycare out of their home,
making preschoolers the key witnesses and even the prime suspects.
Two of those preschoolers are Cassie’s youngest siblings,
suggesting conditions at home are worse than she feared. As Cassie struggles to
care for her family, she must face the truth about her mother’s slide into
depression, which seems to be taking the entire town with it.
Then Cassie, too, is attacked by the supernatural cold. She
has to think fast to survive, and her actions cause a rift between her and her
husband.
No, life doesn’t end after marriage. All hell can break loose
at any time.
My review:
Stupidly, I hadn't realised this was part of a series (you'd think I'd check that kind of thing by now) and though I thought there was quite a bit of backstory cropping up, it's still perfectly readable as a standalone, even with its 'and now we'll go and do this next thing' ending. The plot is interesting and pleasantly complicated, and exciting, too, in lots of places. I can't say I liked Evan much, but the narrator is sympathetic and I galloped through this - really ought to go back now and find the first one to read!
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Release: July 15, 2018
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The Cassie Scot Series
Cassie Scot:
ParaNormal Detective (Cassie Scot Book One)
Secrets and
Lies (Cassie Scot Book Two)
Mind Games
(Cassie Scot Book 3)
Stolen Dreams
(Cassie Scot Book 4)
Madison's
Song (Cassie Scot Book 5)
Kaitlin’s Tale
(Cassie Scot Book 6)
Christine Amsden has been writing fantasy and science fiction for as long as she can remember. She loves to write and it is her dream that others will be inspired by this love and by her stories. Speculative fiction is fun, magical, and imaginative but great speculative fiction is about real people defining themselves through extraordinary situations. Christine writes primarily about people and relationships, and it is in this way that she strives to make science fiction and fantasy meaningful for everyone.
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That’s when I saw
it – the thing that had scared Evan. It was … a dog, maybe? But massive. As
black as night. And with red, glowing eyes. If it weren’t for the eyes, I might
have mistaken it for a werewolf. Well, that, and the fact that the moon hadn’t
risen. Wolves didn’t turn when the sun went down, only when the moon rose. It
wasn’t even the full moon; I would never have left Ana with Scott if it were.
The monstrous thing lunged for Jim,
a thirty-something man in very good shape who couldn’t seem to outrun it. It
tore at the backs of his legs, drawing blood and sending Jim sprawling to the
ground on hands and knees.
I couldn’t move, and not because
Evan’s power still held me. That thing was about two seconds from eating Jim, a
man I happened to like and who I knew had a wife and two kids at home.
A strangled yell emerged from Jim’s
throat. Guns blazed – I hadn’t even noticed Frank and Sheriff Adams drawing
their weapons. The beast growled, momentarily losing interest in Jim as it
fixed those demon eyes on the two men trying to fill it with lead.
Then, suddenly, it was in the air,
flying backwards through the trees and out of sight.
The guns went quiet but the sheriff
and his deputy continued to run toward their fallen comrade. Evan stood stock
still, staring into the woods, arms raised and waiting. Listening.
Suddenly, the sound of a canine
howling filled the air.
“Move!” Evan shouted. “It’s coming
back!”
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