Until Death

by D. Skies

Alisha aka Strawberry was supposed to follow the elite road to success that her prestigious parents paved for her. When she decides to take a detour, she is disowned and forced to fend for herself. She finds herself in dead sexually handicap relationship and dead in job as a cashier at the local grocery store.
Lance Overton is a Music Mogul and owner of Nicety Records. The first time he lays eyes on Strawberry he knew he had to have her. He rescues her from a destitute life and reinstates her back to the glamorous life.
After several years of blissful marriage; things start to change after the birth of their son. Strawberry finds out that her husband is not who she thought. When infidelity, mental and physical abuse comes in to play, she finds her marriage falling apart.
Refusing to lose her family; her mental state starts to diminish and people start to die. No one is safe when a dark secret is revealed, not ever her own child….

263 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 19, 2012

About the author

D~Skies a.k.a. Shante grew up on the south side of Chicago. At the age of 10 she began writing poems and short stories for her teachers. They encouraged her to submit some of her work into competitions. Shante was not able to do so because she had so many others things on her plate having to help care for her sisters and mother. She also learned to play the clarinet and alto saxophone at that time.
Soon after entering high school she became pregnant with her first daughter. Though Shante was faced with becoming a teenage mother she did not let that stop her. She finished high school and even went on to attend college at The International Academy of Design and Technology, without any help from her child's father. She found comfort in teaching herself to play the acoustic guitar. In 2003, her daughter's father tried to step up and become the father he should have started out being, but he was tragically murdered. After which Shante still pressed on to continue her studies.
In 2005, she met her husband and in late 2006 they began dating. The following year they became pregnant with her second daughter. After giving birth she enrolled herself back into school attending Kennedy King College and joining the Honors Society Phi Theta Kappa. She began her writing again and this time it evolved into full-fledged novels. They then became pregnant with her third daughter in 2009. The couple then wedded in November 2009.
Shante graduated in December 2010 with an Associates of Arts degree with Honors and are now attending Chicago State University in pursuance of her Bachelors of Arts degree in TV and Film Making. She has recently released, Derailed, her first novel written under pen name D~Skies. Shante plans to continue to write novels that are inspired from her upbringing and dreams and remain true to keeping her identity as only Shante. No multiple pen names! Her goal is to bring life to her writings by directing and producing them into movies. Shante's mottos are:

"A strong woman is not born, she is made."©
"You can be anyone in the world but at the end of the day just being YOU is always the best."©

Reviews

[Ken Finlay · Rating 1 out of 5]

I actually made it 20 pages into this godawful mess before closing it down forever.
Page 1 should have given me a clue that all was not well:
"As I lay back down staring at the ceiling all I could hear was the snoring sounds of what could have been a wilder beast sleeping next to me."
One can never be certain but I suspect that the word D. Skies was thinking of was Wildebeest (popularly known as Gnu).
Punctuation is noted by its absence (and this is also from the first page):
"I nod my head from left to right to left angrily really fast repeatedly, then slowly calmed seemingly dizzy yet halted."
This is not James Joyce, it is unreadable.