Series:
Albatross Prison Series #1
Author:
DB Michaels
Genre:
Contemporary Romance, Medical
Release
Date: June 21, 2016
Publisher:
Dream Tower Publishing
Print
Length: 331 pages
Format:
Digital and Paperback
Digital
ISBN: 978-0-9972798-0-1
Paperback
ISBN: 978-0-9972798-1-8
Synopsis:
Healing
must start from within…
Desperate
to reconnect with her half-brother, Emma Edwards takes her new
medical training and secures a doctor’s job at the prison where
he’s serving a sentence. But what she finds there is worse than she
ever imagined…tough rules and even tougher men, gangs powered by
drug money and corruption. Emma must find a way to keep her brother
alive until he’s freed even if that means lying to the one man she
should be able to trust…
Warden
Maxim Chambers doesn’t believe a woman should be working in a
penitentiary, especially one like Emma – a woman even a hardened
man like him can’t get off his mind. He’s spent too many years
building walls around his heart to let himself care about anyone. Yet
when Emma is almost hurt in a prison assault, Maxim can’t deny his
feelings for her. But what is the connection between Emma and the
prisoner named Sam?
And
accept your past.
When
secrets are revealed, danger and death run through the prison. Only
the truth can save Emma and Maxim…if it’s not too late.
Song of the
Blackbird immerses you in a whole new world – a gritty, violent
world where things you have always believed turn out not to be true.
It is a compelling story of sorrow and loss, of hope and second
chances, and most of all, of the power of love.
Julien
began rattling off some names. Thank goodness Sam wasn’t one of
them. At least not this time, but had he been ill before? They’d
always been close. Something horrible must have happened to him.
Maybe he’d been beaten up and lay hurt somewhere all these months.
But then Emma remembered the 308-35U. Surely if he was hurt, they
wouldn’t have assigned him to a dorm?
One
of the side doors to the conference room opened and several inmate
workers lifting large boxes entered. One carried two huge boxes. His
face was partially obscured but when he turned, her heart almost
stopped. That uplifted nose, the frizzy hair, the lanky build. She
squeezed her eyes shut and snapped them open again, sure her mind was
playing tricks on her. But no. There he was. He turned and suddenly
caught her eye. His whole body stiffened. That was it, a momentary
tenseness. Nothing else. No smile, no spark of recognition. He put
the boxes on the cart and followed the group of inmates out the door.
“Excuse
me.” Emma hastily stood. “Sorry. I’ll be right back.”
She
rushed to the door, registering Chambers’s and Kaye’s identical
expressions of disapproval. But what did it matter? She’d seen Sam.
Her darling, beloved Sam. She flung the door open. Where the heck
were they? They couldn’t have gone far. She darted down the
corridor, turned left, and caught a glimpse of blue going around the
next corner. She ran after them. There they were, exiting the
building farther down the hall.
Emma
rushed outside. The four inmate workers stood in a single line near
the locked gate she’d entered with Julien awhile back. Their
supervisor opened the gate with his set of keys. They were at least
fifty yards away but Emma had no problem identifying Sam. His gait
was the same. The usual swing to the arms and the mild dragging of
his left foot. Courtesy of his cursed father who’d started this
nightmare. Sam never turned around as the group disappeared from
sight. Either he was mad at her or maybe he’d lost his memory? Had
he had a concussion from some head trauma? He had to know her. There
must be a reason for him to ignore her like that.
Suddenly,
a blackbird’s call rang in the air. On-ke-kaaangh. On-ke-kaaangh.
Then a short pause and another. On-ke-kaaangh. On-ke-kaaangh. Sam’s
voice definitely.
Emma’s
heart soared. She put her hand to her mouth and prayed she still
remembered. “On-ke-kaaangh. On-ke-kaaangh.”
It
didn’t come out as polished as when they’d practiced it long ago
camping in the woods but it was enough. Dear God, it was enough.
Tears rushed behind her eyes as the familiar birdcall echoed back to
her. She swallowed several times and wiped the wetness from her
cheeks. She’d found her brother at last.
About
DB Michaels:
DB Michaels is a
life-long reader who fell in love with the field of medicine during
college. Double boarded in internal medicine and emergency medicine,
she enjoys using her skills to help those in need. Working as a
doctor in the prison system inspired her to write Song
of the Blackbird, the
first installment in her Albatross Prison Series. Though the book is
entirely fictional, it illustrates the power of love, hope, and
second chances.
DB’s
first passion has always been books and she is happiest when she is
absorbed in a great novel or writing. When she has time off, she
likes to watch old movies, dally in the sun, and spend time with her
family.
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