Ghost
Love
Nelli
Rees
Genre: Romance (with a hint of
the paranormal)
Publisher: Phaze
Date of Publication: 20th January
2015
ISBN: ISBN-13 978-1-60659-849-8
ASIN: B00SNYRXH8
Number of pages: 332
Word Count: 90,000
Cover Artist: Niki Browning
Book Description:
In the madcap, chaotic days when
Communism crumbled in the USSR, Tonia meets and falls in love with Englishman,
Peter Monroe. Despite the protests of her family and the more strenuous
objections of the KGB Tonia
agrees to marry Peter only for him to mysteriously disappear.
Twenty years later a
life-toughened Toni must revisit these bitter-sweet memories when she finds
herself and her daughters endangered by the consequences of that love affair.
In her despair Toni comes to
realise that true love really does conquer all … even death.
Excerpt: Prologue
Present Day:
Dorset, England
Excitement being
a kindred spirit to fear, Toni was undecided as to whether it was a trickle of
fear she felt shivering down her spine or a trickle of excitement.
As she sat
staring at the screen of her laptop, the darkness shrouding the room seemed to
draw in on her: her head swam, her palms became clammy. Tears welled up in her
eyes. She blinked them away, hoping that by doing so the message on her screen
would disappear. It didn’t.
Peter Monroe
wants to be friends on Facebook
Hesitantly she
maneuvered the cursor over the ‘connect’ button and pressed ‘enter.’ The screen
mutated to show the Facebook page for ‘Peter Monroe.’ It was Peter! She
recognized the profile photograph instantly. She’d taken it. She remembered
posing him in front of the bandstand in Gorki Park on that spring day back in
1990, remembered laughing at the stupid faces he pulled, remembered the way his
long chestnut hair flopped over his forehead, remembered…
How could she
forget? He had been her one true love.
Love. A word
made empty by misuse…by overuse. She wondered how many had ever endured the
touch of real love, that soul-eviscerating sensation that comes when you know
you have found your soul-mate. Very few, she decided. Perhaps this was all for
the good: true love brought anguish in equal measure to joy. As the last twenty
years had taught her, finding true love was a bitter-sweet blessing. Her
fingers trembled as she typed.
Is it really
you, Peter?
The reply was
instantaneous.
Yes…I’ve missed
you, Tonia.
She couldn’t
stop herself: the tears flowed down her cheeks.
But…
She paused, terrified
that what she would type next might cause this marvelous mirage to vanish.
But I thought
you were dead.
The seconds
ticked by, then:
I am.
About
the Author:
Nelli Rees, born in Moscow,
trained as a linguist and a musician. With her future husband Englishman Rod
she worked and travelled around Russia, finally coming to live in England in
1998. Nelli has had several successful careers: recording a critically
acclaimed nu-jazz album “Jazz Noir”, becoming an award-winning jewellery maker,
writing a book “Glass Bead Jewelry Projects”, and doing all this whilst being a
mother and a wife. “Ghost Love” is Nelli’s first novel and draws heavily on her
own experiences as a young woman in Soviet Russia and the obstacles she and her
husband-to-be faced during those difficult times.
Video of Nelli performing
"Falling In Love Again":
Tour
giveaways
Prize 1: "Pink Flowers"
Necklace from Nelli’s "Jewelry for
All Seasons" collection (handmade lampwork beads, sterling silver
findings, crystals and hand dyed silk ribbon);
Prize 2: "Malachite
Mystery" Pendant and earrings (handmade lampwork beads, sterling silver
findings and chain, crystals);
Prize 3: "Tiger!
Tiger!" Earrings (handmade lampwork beads, sterling silver findings,
crystals);
Prizes 4-7: Bookmarks with glass bead ornamentation
(handmade lampwork beads, crystals, steel dividers);
Prize 8: Signed paperback copy of
'Ghost Love';
Prize 9: Signed copy of Nelli’s book 'Glass Bead Jewelry Projects';
Prize 10 - 14: Signed promo
copies of Nelli’s album 'Jazz Noir'.
Thank you for posting "Ghost Love", so excited to be here! :)
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