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I'm so thrilled to share this sale with you! All three of my books; Race the Darkness, Hunt the Dawn, and Saving Mercy are on sale for 99¢.   RACE THE DARKNESS Series: Fatal Dreams Series, Book 1  Genre: Dark Romantic Thriller Cursed with a terrible gift... Criminal investigator Xander Stone doesn't have to question you-he can hear your thoughts. Scarred by lightning, burdened with a power that gives him no peace, Xander struggles to maintain his sanity against the voice that haunts him day and night-the voice of a woman begging him to save her. A gift that threatens to engulf them Isleen Walker has long since given up hope of escape from the nightmare of captivity and torture that is draining her life, her mind, and her soul. Except...there is the man in her feverish dreams, the strangely beautiful man who beckons her to freedom and wholeness. And when he comes, if he comes, it will take all their combined fury and faith to overcome a madman bent on...

I'm a Mental Health Therapist. Here's My Story.

I'm a mental health therapist.  Here's my story. *GIVEAWAY*  Stay tuned for how you can win an ecopy of RACE THE DARKNESS and HUNT THE DAWN. I’ve been a therapist for almost seventeen years. Wow. That makes me sound old. I spent the first five years of my career working at a community mental health agency.  That job more than any other influenced my writing because there were many, many, many times I was actually frightened while working there. I was twenty-five and fresh out of grad school when started that job. It taught me a lot about the ugly side of humanity. It shoved the ugliness in my face and made me deal with it one-on-one in my office. I saw everyone in that job. Kids. Adults. And nearly every mental disorder that exists.  We were an agency that contracted with our local children’s services, with the courts, and parole boards. I saw men who’d been repeatedly convicted for domestic violence, who hated women and were outwardly demean...

Read Chapter 1 of HUNT THE DAWN by Abbie Roads

HUNT THE DAWN Book 2 in the Fatal Dreams Series has been birthed into the world! The novel took me two and a half years to write--I wrote it, edited it, then scrapped everything I'd written and started over! That seems to be a pattern for me. I did the same thing when writing RACE THE DARKNESS!  I know I shouldn't have favorites, but Lathan in the hero of my heart. He's such a big, strong, scary looking dude, but he's got an endearing vulnerability that makes me all warm and fuzzy on the inside.  I hope you enjoy the first chapter of Lathan and Evanee's story. Scent is the most pervasive of our senses. In an average twenty-four hour period, a person will breathe approximately 20,000 breaths. For every inhale, the human brain automatically catalogues the scent in the air with the activity happening at the time of the breath, creating a scent memory.                       ...