~ CLOSED ~ Secrets of the Red Box – Blog Tour {Excerpt} and {Giveaways}

Bonnie has secrets to keep – secrets with the potential to destroy lives, including her own. Running from her destructive and pain filled past, she recreates herself, believing she has escaped the damning evidence hidden in the red box. When her former life is revealed by a cruel twist of fate, Bonnie faces losing everything, including Glen, the only man she’s ever loved. But is Bonnie the woman he thinks she is? Set against the backdrop of the 1940s, Secrets of the Red Box is filled with intrigue and suspense – sure to keep you guessing to the very end!

Excerpt – 

“Bonnie got undressed and slipped into bed. She stared up at the ceiling, her eyes unready for sleep, her thoughts unsettled. She felt a heaviness pressing down on her chest, a domineering weight of darkness and gloom. It pushed the air from her lungs and seized her gut with its thick, probing fingers until she felt unable to breathe. Her lips parted and she inhaled deeply as though she could dislodge the weight, but when she exhaled it remained, pinning her to the mattress.

She thought about Christine and her unremarkable life, her unremarkably normal life. She envied the woman for parents who loved her, for a home with walls papered in sanity. She imagined Christine sitting at the kitchen table with her brothers and sister, eating Sunday breakfast together as a family. She could see Christine’s mother smiling over a plate of pancakes and fussing over her children’s manners. She thought of Christine in high school, imagining her circled with friends, going to dances, giving parties. She thought about how Christine loved Joe, but let him go off to war without her heart.

Christine’s life was so unremarkable that the thought of it stabbed Bonnie like a bitter reminder of how different her life had been. Bonnie yearned for a life so normal. Tears burned her eyes and she cursed the emptiness of her life, the ugliness, the dark shadows. Bonnie’s sobs became louder as she pulled the pillow around her face. Her throat tightened, her lungs heaved, but she could not dislodge the weight from her chest. It consumed her, swallowing her whole until she was lost in the blackness of her soul.

She surrendered to sleep and dreamed about Christine and pancakes and Sunday afternoons.”

Author Vickie Hall

Vickie is a native of Utah, but growing up, lived in the states of Colorado, Idaho, Montana, and Nebraska. When she’s not writing, she’s composing music, or shopping with her sister. She loves animals of all kinds and camping with her family. Her favorite pastime is watching old movies on TCM, and unashamedly has a crush on Cary Grant.

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