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Something is out there…watching…waiting
It could be a mythical creature wreaking havoc on a Mystere hotel…or a malicious vandal. It's detective Tanner LeDoux's first case and—much to his chagrin—the hotel belongs to Josie Bettencourt, once the most popular girl in town and his unrequited love. A woman who now doesn't even recognize him.
Josie's poor memory is Tanner's luck, however. He has a chance to be the strong, sexy hero who protects her and her hotel from mounting danger. Tanner's no believer in the old ways, but one stormy night, he sees something horrific he can't explain. And he knows, without a doubt, whatever lurks in Honey Island Swamp means to keep Josie from him forever!
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- Published on: 2012-12-01
- Released on: 2012-12-01
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Josette Bettencourt stared at the group of workers gathered in front of her ancestral plantation home and for the first time in a long while, couldn't think of a single thing to say.
The crew leader, Ray, a Creole man who was probably in his fifties, stepped forward. "We need the work, Ms. Bettencourt, and the normal dangers of the swamp are things we're comfortable with, but not this."
She took a deep breath and blew it out. "I want you to explain to me again exactly what you saw."
Ray nodded. "We were repairing the fence on the north side of the property when we heard howling, but it weren't no swamp animal that we know. Then we heard something moving in the brush—something big."
"Did you see it?"
"It came through the brush about thirty yards from where we were working. Looked straight at us, then ducked back in the bushes and disappeared."
"What did it look like?"
"It was taller than me by at least a foot or two and had long gray hair. It had a face like a monkey and yellow eyes."
Okay, it didn't sound any better the second time. "You're sure it wasn't a bear?"
Ray drew himself up straight. "I know bear, ma'am. I feed my family off of this swamp most of the time." He pointed to the crew. "All of them know bear, too. We all saw the same thing."
The men nodded and shuffled around, clearly uneasy.
"I don't know what to say," she said finally. "I will look into it with Emmett, but I'm begging you not to leave."
Ray looked at the men most of whom stared at the ground. "I can't speak for another man," he said, "but I will keep working for now. How many will stay?"
All of the men slowly raised their hands.
Josie felt almost dizzy with relief. "Thank you. Move your crew to the west side tomorrow and work there until I figure this out. Where's Emmett?"
Ray shrugged. "We haven't seen him since he got us started this morning."
She struggled to hold in her frustration. "If you see anything out of the ordinary tomorrow, come straight to me."
Ray nodded and started to walk away, then hesitated. "Is there something else?" Josie asked. "You grew up in this swamp, ma'am. You know the legends."
"The legends are stories made up by parents to keep their children from wandering into the swamp," she replied, stubbornly refusing to buy into age-old scare tactics.
"Perhaps, but what I saw today wasn't my imagination and it scared me—a grown man. Stories that last so many years often have truth in them. You can choose not to believe, but please take precautions in the swamp."
Josie softened a little, realizing the man was simply worried about her safety. "Of course. Thank you."
Ray gave her a single nod and motioned the crew away.
She blew out a breath and strode toward the barn, wondering where her foreman had wandered off to this time. Lately, she spent more time looking for Emmett than she did working with him on the repairs needed at the plantation. He'd always been distant and short on words, but since her father's death six months before, he'd moved on to physically absent as well as verbally.
There was no sign of Emmett in the barn, and one look at the sky let her know that daylight was running out. She grabbed a flashlight and a shotgun from a gun rack near the barn door and headed out to the location in the swamp where the crew had been working on fencing.
The area the crew had worked in that day was in the denser part of the swamp surrounding the house. Fences already existed at the perimeter of cleared land, but given the many dangerous creatures living in the swamp surrounding the main estate, the bank was requiring her to maintain a second set of fencing deeper in the swamp in order to open the house as a bed-and-breakfast. The new fencing would also keep hikers from wandering into the more dangerous areas, and provide an extra line of defense for her horses, the only luxury she'd held on to after her father's death.
She pushed through the thick brush on the seldom-used trail until she reached the work area. Cypress trees rose in a thick wall around her and parted at the edge of the brackish water that comprised one of many ponds contained on her property. A stack of posts and barbed wire stood about twenty feet back from the edge of the water, the remains of the previous fence scattered in front of it.
She'd thought animals and the hurricane season had taken down that stretch of fence that her father had installed years ago, but what if she'd been wrong?
The silence of the swamp seemed to echo in her mind. How in the world could something so quiet cause so much unease? She crossed her arms over her chest, unable to remember a time when she'd ever felt at ease in the dense undergrowth. The myths and legends about the swamps of Mystere Parish were as long as the Mississippi River, and although her father had always dismissed them as the ramblings of superstitious swamp people, Josie couldn't help wondering if Ray was right—if those long-survived tales had some basis in truth.
She scanned the work area one last time and blew out a breath, unsure what she expected to find. There was nothing to see here but another afternoon of unfinished work. Another half day of lag to add to the week they were already behind.
As she turned to leave, a twig snapped behind her. She whirled around and looked across the pond where the noise had come from. The sun was setting, creating a dim orange glow over the pond. She peered into the foliage on the opposite bank, but didn't see anything.
You're spooking yourself.
She let out the breath she'd been holding, chastising herself for getting worked up. It was probably just a deer. Then the bushes on the opposite bank parted and a head emerged. It was completely gray and neither human nor animal. Yellow eyes locked on her and she froze. One second, two seconds, three.
And then as quickly as it appeared, it disappeared in the brush without a sound.
The Tainted Keitre.
For a split second she wondered how something so big could move through the dying brush without so much as a whisper of noise, but then common sense took over and she turned and ran down the trail to the plantation as fast as her legs would carry her.
Josie clenched her hands down by her sides, afraid that if she lifted them above her waist, she'd punch Bobby Reynard straight in the mouth. The fact that he was currently the sheriff probably wouldn't play to her favor.
"So you're not going to do anything?" she asked, trying to keep her voice calm.
He puffed out his chest, which still didn't force it to extend beyond his belly. "I am an officer of the law. I don't waste my time and taxpayers' money by investigating the ridiculous claims of a bunch of superstitious swamp people, especially when it's all happening on private property. You got a problem at your house—it's your problem, unless there's a crime."
"A brand-new section of my fence was torn down three times in the last two weeks. Vandalism was against the law the last time I checked."
He shoved his hands in his jeans pockets and stared past her out the window, clearly bored with the conversation. "A bear is probably tearing down that fence. Sounds like you're fencing what he considers his territory. Problems with the local wildlife are not problems for the sheriff's department."
She glanced down at his protruding belly and then back at him. "Looks to me like nothing but drinking beer down at the Gator Bar is your business."
His face reddened and he drew himself up straight, trying to suck in the gut and failing miserably. "You better watch your mouth, sweetheart. Everyone may have kissed your butt in high school, but this is the real world now and you aren't any better than anyone else in this town now that all that family money is gone."
"Oh, I imagine I'm still better than some," she said, then whirled around and left the sheriff's office before he could retort.
Not that there was any danger of him coming up with something witty in the next hour or so. Bobby Reynard had been a bully and an oaf in high school and he'd made a profession out of it as an adult. She only hoped some desperate woman didn't marry him so that the cycle could end with him.
"Don't let him get to you, honey, or he wins."
Josie stopped digging for her car keys and looked up to find Adele LaPierre standing in front of her. The spry, little silver-haired woman claimed to be sixty-five, but Josie's mother had always said she was every bit of eighty.
"You're right," Josie said. "But it's just so stupid. High school was ten years ago and he's still stuck there."
"Some things never change. You were the most beautiful girl in high school and you had no interest in him. Now you're the most beautiful girl in the Honey Island Swamp and you're still not interested in him."
Josie smiled and gave Adele a hug. "You always know the right thing to say."
"You're a good girl, Josette. Your parents would be proud of the way you're trying to save their home. Don't let anyone make you feel differently."
She sighed. "All my work is going to be for nothing if I can't stop the vandalism. The crew is already spooked and threatening to quit. Without the crew, I'll never have the house ready to open for New Year's, and without that revenue, the bank will start foreclosure in February. And all that is assuming the work they do isn't destroyed by whoever is doing this."
Adele narrowed her eyes. "Whoever or whatever?"
Josie stared at the sidewalk for a moment before lifting her gaze back to Adele. "I haven't told anyone, but I went into the swamp that day and I saw what the men said was out there. I can'...
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Final Installment Lives Up to the Rest
By Wendy Sparrow
If you haven't read the previous books, you'll want to go and read them in this order:
1. The Reckoning
2. The Vanishing
3. The Awakening
While each one has a stand-alone story, there is a background mystery and narrative about the three half-brothers and Mystere Parish that you'll enjoy more if you start at the beginning. Besides, each one of these books is well worth the read. Actually...this book might just be my favorite of the three. I liked both the characters a lot and loved the cryptid mystery that was at the heart of this one. A swamp monster! How can you resist a book with a swamp monster chasing them? I'm telling you...this is the stuff that dreams are made of. ; ) Okay, well, probably nightmares, but I loved the myth this centered around.
Once you've finished this series, I highly recommend you check out The Secret of Cypriere Bayou by Jana DeLeon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004MPRZ1Q/ref=r_soa_w_d
If you like a hint of the paranormal, great suspense, and a setting that has you hearing crickets chirping and imagining fireflies...this series is it. I mentioned this in other reviews, but I love, love, love that the author doesn't explain away every aspect of the mystery as other suspense novels do. You're left thinking that ANYTHING can happen in Mystere Parish.
Amazing series--so glad I stumbled across them and that other people had reviewed them so highly that I figured they were worth checking out.
I always include an excerpt I liked from the story--and this bit of dialogue made me snicker. This is Tanner speaking with a guy he sent a suspicious footprint cast (SWAMP MONSTER!) in order to have it analyzed--it starts off with the lab guy talking:
"Yeah, well, that print was creepy."
"Is that your official opinion?"
"As a zoologist and amateur cryptozoologist, yes, that's my professional opinion."
"Okay, I'll bite. Why was it creepy?"
"Well, everything indicates it's a bipedal creature, but given the soil conditions and depth of the imprint, we're talking something between six and seven feet tall and two hundred fifty pounds or more."
"Bear?"
"With four toes? Dude, don't even go there."
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Great book!
By Anna Snow
The Awakening by Jana DeLeon was amazing!
Any time there's a big strong man running to the rescue of a damsel in distress in the middle of the swamps of Louisiana, I'm there, although, Josie Bettencourt is a far cry from some simpering woman who's unable to take care of herself. Josie's a strong character that shows us there's much more to people than what meets the eye.
I love a strong female lead and Ms. DeLeon didn't disappoint me with Josie.
Now, on to Tanner.
What can I say about Tanner LeDoux except, WOW!
I was in love with this character from the moment I read his name. He's strong, large and in charge but without the egotistical, caveman act many book heroes seem to have nowadays.
He loves Josie unconditionally and that love never wavers no matter how rough the waters get or how many years have passed, which endeared him to me even more. He's willing to put his life on the line to spare Josie even a moment of despair. You can't read this book without loving Tanner LeDoux.
The idea of the Honey Island Swamp Monster was also a delight and Ms. DeLeon's description was so detailed that I could picture him clearly in my mind.
I'm looking forward to reading more books in this series.
Fun, action packed, and romantic, I highly recommend The Awakening by Jana DeLeon.
Review by Chastity Bush- Romance Author
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
woke me up all day long
By Melissa A. Halliday
this one was a little different but, very good. Josie wants to open a type
of bed and breakfast but, can't because there is a "creature" who is
scaring away all her workers/locals and the creature is on her
property !!! call in sexy,sexy ,sexy tanner to help solve the mystery and there
is a twist...tanner went to school (yrs ago) with rich girl josie and he was in love with
her then (but she was not in love with anyone and never even saaawww tanner).
tanner and Josie have a wonderful rapport together and I held my breath
until they actually consummated their relationship.
and what of the elusive creature ??? most is revealed at the end and what
a great ending it was ! I did not suspect who it was at all-nice little twist !!!
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