Donna is doing a blog tour to celebrate the release of her paranormal mystery, "A Human Element". Each participating blog has an excerpt exclusive to them. Follow the tour, you'll get a range of excerpts, and each comment you leave on a blog, enters you into a tour-wide drawing. Donna will be awarding a $50 Amazon GC to a randomly drawn commenter during the tour.
Donna Galanti is the author of the paranormal suspense novel A HUMAN ELEMENT (Echelon Press). Donna has a B.A. in English and a background in marketing. She is a member of International Thriller Writers, Horror Writers Association, The Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group, and Pennwriters. She lives with her family in an old farmhouse in PA with lots of nooks, fireplaces, and stinkbugs but sadly, no ghosts.
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Excerpt
"What the hell was that?" Renee looked at Laura.
More cracks rang out and then screaming.
"Oh my God, someone is shooting!" Laura pulled Renee down with her under the desk.
Laura shrunk under her desk in the corner of the cubicle and tried to pull Renee closer to her. Laura had always hated cubicles and now found relief hiding in one.
"Can you get under here more?" Laura whispered and pulled the chair toward them as far as it would go.
"No, I don't think so." Renee let out a tiny sob and bit her lip.
The screams tapered off and silence remained. Laura heard crying from down the hall. Then another gun shot. Then silence again. The phone on her desk rang. Its blaring ring startled them both.
Laura gripped Renee's hand and put her fingers to her lips with her other hand.
"It's not me," a man's voice shouted out. "Someone is making me do it." The man began to sob. He moved noisily into their area. Laura forced herself to breathe slow and silent. Renee shook; tears ran down her chubby cheeks and dripped onto her silk scarf. Laura just felt numb. She had to focus on surviving.
Renee's leg twitched. "I can't stay like this much longer," she whispered. "Charley horse."
"You've got to," Laura mouthed back. Renee's twitch got bigger. Her leg shot out and hit the chair with a bang.
The man's sobbing stopped. They heard him crashing alongside cubicle walls toward them. Renee gripped Laura's hand harder. They clung to each other.
"I'm sorry. It's not me!"
He pulled out the chair.
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Book Blurb (from author):
One by one, Laura Armstrong’s friends and adoptive family members are being murdered, and despite her unique healing powers, she can do nothing to stop it. The savage killer haunts her dreams, tormenting her with the promise that she is next. Determined to find the killer, she follows her visions to the site of a crashed meteorite–her hometown. There, she meets Ben Fieldstone, who seeks answers about his parents’ death the night the meteorite struck. In a race to stop a mad man, they unravel a frightening secret that binds them together. But the killer’s desire to destroy Laura face-to-face leads to a showdown that puts Laura and Ben’s emotional relationship and Laura’s pure spirit to the test. With the killer closing in, Laura discovers her destiny is linked to his and she has two choices–redeem him or kill him.
By: Donna Galanti
Publisher: Echelon Books
ISBN: 9781590808764
Genre: FICTION, PARANORMAL, MYSTERY
Format: EBOOK, PAPERBACK
Length: 310 pages, 1690 KB
Release Date: March 10, 2012
Buying Links: Amazon Barnes & Noble The Book Depository
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