The
New Mrs. Collins
by Quanie Miller
Genre: Paranormal
Release Date: October 13, 2014
by Quanie Miller
Genre: Paranormal
Release Date: October 13, 2014
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Book Blurb
In the small town of Carolville ,
Louisiana
Being left at the altar is bad enough, but Leena
and her ex share custody of their son, so she has to see the new Mrs. Collins
on a regular basis.
And it burns every time she does.
But soon, Leena starts to suspect that there is
more to Adira Collins than meets the eye. And it’s not because she owns some
kinky lingerie shop or allegedly insulted the pastor’s wife—it’s the strange
way she can make a door close without touching it, or take one look at
something and make it drop dead at her feet.
Leena starts digging for answers and
soon discovers that, unlike her public persona, Adira’s true nature is
somewhere on the other side of grace. She also learns, a little too late, that
some secrets are better left buried.
Excerpt
Even though Johnny’s house was a
good ten miles away, it did not occur to Leena to put on a pair of shoes, or to
comb her hair, or wash her face. She walked along Elmer Drive until she got to
Stoney Way. She ambled along, not paying attention to anything in particular,
when she looked up and saw a woman in a white nightgown walking towards her.
There was nothing really remarkable about her except for the fact that her face
was on fire. Leena stopped and pointed at the woman. She was going to ask her
if she knew her face was on fire when the woman smiled at her. To Leena’s
horror, the woman’s face transformed into her
face. The woman was her. She looked at her reflection in a store window and saw
that it was true: her face was ablaze.
Leena looked down at her fingertips
and noticed that they were on fire as well. She wondered — if she touched
something, would it burn? She turned her attention to a mailbox on the corner
and winced when it blurred, went back into focus, disappeared, and then
returned. She walked towards it, stuck her burning finger out, and was shocked
to discover that the mailbox wasn’t real. Her finger went right through it as
if the mailbox were made of clouds. She was stumped. She looked at her hand
again when it dawned on her what she had gone to the kitchen for that morning —
to cut the tips from her fingers.
She turned around, headed back to
her house and wondered who left her front door wide open. When she got to the
kitchen, she laid her hand on the cutting board and took the biggest knife from
the cutlery set. She would start with the pinky first. She laid the little
finger there, raised the knife high in the air, and just as she was coming down
to slice, heard the whisper once more, and this time, it was as clear as a blue
diamond sitting in a shallow pool of water: Go
to McCullens Bridge.
McCullens Bridge! Well, that made
sense. Her face was on fire so it was logical that she should go to McCullens
Bridge and stick her head in to put the fire out. Why hadn’t she thought of it
before? She walked outside and noticed that the sun was hanging lower than
usual, almost on top of her neighbor’s house. She wagged her finger as she
walked past it, thinking that if it fell on her head, she’d be in a world of
trouble. She looked at it one more time to make sure it would stay put, then
she continued walking.
Author Bio
Quanie Miller grew up in New Iberia, Louisiana.
She fell in love with reading at an early age and spent most of her time at the
Iberia Parish Library discovering authors like R.L. Stine and Christopher Pike
(she was often found walking back home from the library with a stack of books
that went up to her chin). She holds degrees from Louisiana State University
and San Jose State University. She has been the recipient of the James Phelan
Literary Award, the Louis King Thore Scholarship, the BEA Student Scriptwriting
Award, and the Vicki Hudson Emerging Writing Prize. She is the author of The New Mrs. Collins, a southern
paranormal novel, and It Ain't Easy Being
Jazzy, a romantic comedy. She lives in South Carolina with her husband and
is currently, as always, working on another novel. To find out more about
Quanie and her works in progress visit quanietalkswriting.com.
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