Victor Allen

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Katerina Cheplik (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

It was the answer to a question she thought would never be spoken: "Ask the rose why it is red and it would give you the same answer I would: because God made it that way." Sharon Peters, a young woman who has left her promiscuous, drug-fueled adolescence behind her after reuniting with her on again-off again beau, Bernie, sees only smooth water and clear sailing ahead. But Sharon has been singled out -she knows not why- as a player in a battle between ancient forces of good and evil as old as the cosmos itself. Drawn into a cat and mouse game of seduction and betrayal between her newly returned lost love and the dark demimondaine, her friend, Katerina Cheplik, she finally realizes the game is not for Bernie, but for her. There is another, more sinister, more powerful, who will never let her claim the second chair. Implicated in a series of gruesome murders, Sharon is spirited away and imprisoned in an insane asylum where she meets the two hundred year old man, William Davis, a man with his own, dark secrets and firsthand knowledge of the evil Cheplik legacy. As the terrifying darkness ever more tightly enfolds the little college town of Red River, drawing more and more of her despairing inhabitants into the hopeless web of the Evil One, Sharon and Davis must find the courage to risk their lives -and be willing to give them- to face down the literal and figurative storm bearing down on the besieged city. The fate of the eternal souls of thousands hinges on them as they battle the raw, unearthly power of the bete noire, the dark-eyed enchantress, Katerina Cheplik.

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Born in North Carolina in 1961, Victor Allen has lived a charmed, black and white, and almost disreputable life. Turned down by the military at age seventeen because of a bad heart (We would take, his recruiter told him, the women and children before we would take you), he spent a wasted year at NCSU, where he augmented his scant college funds by working part-time as a stripper (what the heck? Everybody looks good when they're eighteen), a pastime he quickly gave up one night when he discovered -to his mortification- his divorced, middle-aged mother sitting in the audience. Giving NCSU the good old college miss, he satisfied his adventurous spirit and wanderlust by moving out West in his late teens, first to Colorado and later, Wyoming, and working in the construction trades.
Uprooted from his small town upbringing and thrust into a world of real Cowboys and Indians, oil field roughnecks, biker gangs and pool sharks, he spent his youth travelling the country, following the work, settling at various times in Texas, Alabama, South Carolina, Florida, Colorado, and Wyoming.
Along the way he met a myriad of interesting people including Hollywood, a young, Native American man, so called because he wore his sunglasses all the time, even at night; Cinderella K from Owensville, Missouri (the nice laundry lady who turned his shorts into pinkies); Lori P., the Colorado snake lady and her pet boa constrictor, Amanda; the pool hustler par excellence, Johnny M.; TJ, Moon, and Roundman, good folks, but bikers, all; his little blond girlfriend, Lisa; Maureen, the very funny lady from London with the very proper English accent, who he met while living outside of Shaw Air Force Base in Sumter, SC, and her daughter, Marie, with her practically incomprehensible cockney twang; the ever bubbly Samantha from FLA; and all the (well, never mind). :-). Plus way too many others too numerous to list.
He has weathered gunfire, barroom brawls (I didn't get this crooked nose and all these scars on my face from kissin), a three-day mechanical breakdown in the heart of the Louisiana bayous, drunken riots- complete with car burnings and overturnings, Budweiser, bonfires and shootin' irons (it was all in good fun, though,)- ; a hundred year blizzard, floods, two direct lightning strikes, a hurricane which sent a tree crashing through his roof, and an unnerving late night encounter with a man who subsequently proved to be a murderer,

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Victor Allen
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781311697813
• Artikelnr.: 48635342