Bøger af Monica C. Petter

Kite Strings is the first book in a series. Madison Peacock's life is thrown into overdrive when her husband, a mafia lawyer, is murdered. Rhett Peacock's life of crime and dirt is left stuck to Madison and she must find out how to escape his wrath and find herself.

Life beckons.Sometimes it whispers. Sometimes it sings. Occasionally it screams.Life had always conversed with Madison Peacock. She had heard it, but hadn't always listened. After the sudden death of her mother in 1995, Madison had gotten used to ignoring life and only hearing raging chaos. She had run far and away from her family and charged straight into a train wreck with her first husband, Rhett Peacock. Before his ambiguous death in 2007, Rhett had taken Madison down deep into his dark, turbulent life.Choices. Life whispers, sings, or screams choices.The choice to leave her husband, Houston King, was the catalyst. Madison would finally follow her heart, build her life with Dyer Brown. Houston was packed and ready to leave. Instead he died. The blatant irony. Her not-so-perfect new life on the gulf beach upended with raging symmetry she could no longer ignore. Madison Peacock's life was now screaming in alarming pitches. Death the theme.This death pulled in the close acquaintances surrounding her old, disastrous life back in Little Rock. Madison's estranged Aunt M reappeared, opening doors Madison had slammed shut with her mother's death. Gabrielle Vansant, her beach neighbor, soon became that unintended ally. The very people from Madison's past that she had refuted were the connections most important in the cosmic justice her life doled. Madison's past tragedies would turn out to be the greatest gifts in eradicating the anarchy surrounding her.Whether Madison listened or not now was her most important choice.

The Girl Upstairs is the second book in the Kite Strings series. In June of 1990, Gabrielle Vansant drowns suspiciously in the gulf bay off of her father's fishing boat, forever changing the lives of her family and her two best childhood friends, Rory and Holden. Gabrielle's father John disappears, accused of her murder, and everyone involved in the beach summer vacation scatter, becoming mute shadows living in fear. Rory and Holden's budding romance stagnates when they are forced apart by Rory's overprotective and controlling brother, Rhett Peacock. Twenty years later, Gabrielle's mother Lexie dies, leaving the beach house to Holden and Rory in hopes of reuniting the children from her neighborhood she had forsaken. Gabrielle had secrets that Holden and Rory would unearth in her upstairs childhood bedroom. They would discover that Gabby was everywhere and nowhere.