Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.
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My Tease for this week is from
Dependent
by Brenda Corey Dunne
My Tease
My groggy thoughts are interrupted by a slow, methodical click barely audible at first, and then louder. Click. Click. Click.
I realize the sound is footsteps, and the footsteps are in the hallway. Click. Click.
My breath catches in my throat. I’m naked, in John’s room illegally, and the footsteps are coming closer. Surely they will continue on down the hallway, and I pray they do as there is nowhere to go in this miniscule room if they don’t.
Click. Click. Click.
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Synopsis
When 45-year-old Ellen Michaels loses her husband to a tragic military accident, she is left in a world of gray. For 25 years her life has been dictated by the ubiquitous They—the military establishment that has included her like chattel with John’s worldly goods—his Dependents, Furniture, and Effects. They—who have stolen her hopes, her dreams and her innocence, and now in mere months will take away the roof over her head. Ellen is left with nothing to hold on to but memories and guilt and an awful secret that has held her in its grip since she was 19. John’s untimely death takes away her anchor, and now, without the military, there is no one to tell her where to go, what to do— no one to dictate who she is. Dependent deals with issues ever-present in today’s service families—early marriage, frequent long absences, the culture of rank, and posttraumatic stress, as well as harassment and abuse of power by higher-ranking officials. It presents a raw and realistic view of life for the lives of the invisible support behind the uniform.
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I want to know what happens next! Does he find her? Great teaser! Here is my TT https://cleopatralovesbooks.wordpress.com/2014/12/16/teaser-tuesday-december-16/
I’ll never tell!LOL On my way to check out yours now.
Awkward! The cover is very interesting too.
Mine this week is a western with a twist: http://pdworkman.com/excerpt-from-widow-boy-teasertuesday-books/
That and much more:)
Duck and cover. LOL
sherry @ fundinmental My TT ~ Silver Borne by Patricia Briggs
Good one!
Wow! That’s quite a teaser. I hope you review this one because I definitely want to hear more about it!
I’ll be reviewing it. The teaser is much more than I revealed. One more sentence and I would have given away something huge.
Oh, wow, sounds like a powerful story! Thanks for sharing…and here’s mine: “A FIREPROOF HOME FOR THE BRIDE”
It is. And much deeper than I was expecting:)
I haven’t heard of this book but it sounds like it is an interesting story. Happy reading!
The author is new to me and I’m thrilled I won this. I might have missed out on something really good!
I’m hooked with that teaser. Now I have to check out the book.
Thanks for stopping by earlier.
Here’s My Teaser
I hope you do. I’m really liking it:)
Sounds interesting. I want to know where if the footsteps keep going!
Thanks for stopping by.
Well, they… LOL I want to tell so badly.
I’ve known a lot of service wives which makes this one very interesting to me.
Mine this week is Bohemians of the Latin Quarter which was the basis for the opera La Bohème. http://wp.me/pZnGI-gt
I like how it flashes from past to present. It’s important to show why she is where she is.
Oh dear… lol
I know:)
I haven’t heard of this one before. It sounds good.
It is. I’m almost finished reading already.
Ooh that was a great teaser!! Thanks for stopping by my blog!
Stormi
Thanks. What comes next would shock you.
Sounds like it’s be intense. Thanks for stopping by mine.
It gets very intense. I enjoy the flow of the writing too.
Reading the teaser, I thought it was a thriller, it was that creepy! Though the synopsis paints a different picture! Great teaser! Thanks for stopping by! Happy reading!
What happens right after my teaser is intense. The complete story is fascinating.
Ooh, this one sounds absolutely fascinating. Great teaser!
Thanks for the visit to my blog, too. 🙂
That’s a good word to describe it:)
I enjoyed THE RED QUEEN’S RUN
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I need to check it out. I loved the cover.
The cover is beautiful, and you’ve certainly left me with a lot to be desired, what happens next!? Gah!
You won’t believe what happens next!
Hi Laura,
Great cover art on this book.
An interesting synopsis highlighting the way in which service personnel and their dependents the world over, are cast aside once they have served their useful purpose.
Intriguing teaser lines which would have me believing that somehow Ellen has snuck into a restricted military area and is now in fear of being discovered. I may be way out in my thoughts, so I hope that you put me out of my misery, as I am not sure that this is a book for my reading shelf!
Great lines and thanks for sharing.
Yvonne.
This scene is powerful and important for the growth of the character.
I actually did something very similar to this but the outcome was quite different.
I’m sure the person is headed right for the little room. What a situation.
You can say that again!
an ominous teaser,and a heartbreaking summary, oh my! Thanks for sharing! And for commenting on mine http://editingeverything.com/bookish-thoughts-2/teaser-tuesday-mortal-gods/
You described this perfectly:)
Wow, that’s a great teaser! I love the cover, too; looks like she’s a prisoner! Thanks for stopping by my blog!
I never thought of it that way. It works:)
What a fascinating looking book! Great TT. 🙂
It really is, Jaina:)
Holy hell… kind of gives you the shivers!
Naomi @ Nomi’s Paranormal Palace
It should!
It sounds really intense! I’m not sure if it’s the stuff I normally read, but I’m intrigued!
Now, that is a fantastic teaser! I must know what happens! And why she’s there in the first place!
Thanks for stopping by my TT the other day!
Yikes! Not a position I’d want to be in! Sounds like an interesting book, though. My dad left the military with a Purple Heart long before I was born, but it stayed with him throughout my childhood. We ended up moving around a lot, too, since he was hired on by the VA, and got transferred around the country every few years.
Anyhoo, thanks for dropping by my TT!