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Premonitions
This is NOT a story about a parent’s worst nightmare.
Nightmares you wake up from...
How far would you go to save the ones you love?
When unspeakable violence threatens a secluded North Carolina town, suburban mother, Mallory Carpenter, must ask herself this very question. For years, she has attempted to escape the darkness of her past by devoting herself to her beloved children. But this peace is shattered when a terrifying group of masked gunmen on a deadly mission invades an elementary school full of innocent children. Soon the school is under lockdown, and the children, parents, and staff are firmly held hostage with no chance of escape.
Cut off from the outside world, Mallory manages to uncover the unbelievable connection between the intruders, the tragic murder of a renowned scientist and his family, and a strange young boy who does not speak. She realizes, too late, her little world was never as safe as she thought it was.
Mallory is forced to confront the twisted past she thought she left behind and use her wits to fight for her life and the lives of others around her. She and the children must band together to defend what is theirs in this gripping psychological thriller debut from author Amber Colleen that will keep readers turning page after page, hoping against hope that everyone will make it out alive.
Nightmares you wake up from...
How far would you go to save the ones you love?
When unspeakable violence threatens a secluded North Carolina town, suburban mother, Mallory Carpenter, must ask herself this very question. For years, she has attempted to escape the darkness of her past by devoting herself to her beloved children. But this peace is shattered when a terrifying group of masked gunmen on a deadly mission invades an elementary school full of innocent children. Soon the school is under lockdown, and the children, parents, and staff are firmly held hostage with no chance of escape.
Cut off from the outside world, Mallory manages to uncover the unbelievable connection between the intruders, the tragic murder of a renowned scientist and his family, and a strange young boy who does not speak. She realizes, too late, her little world was never as safe as she thought it was.
Mallory is forced to confront the twisted past she thought she left behind and use her wits to fight for her life and the lives of others around her. She and the children must band together to defend what is theirs in this gripping psychological thriller debut from author Amber Colleen that will keep readers turning page after page, hoping against hope that everyone will make it out alive.
225 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 16, 2012
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Amber Colleen
3 books18 followersI am an avid reader, mom and entrepreneur of a family matching pajama company at www.footstepsclothing.com. I also just published my first book on amazon, PREMONITIONS. I am a previous state champion swimmer, trained for a second degree black belt with my son and have a passion for skiing.
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December 5, 2012
Upfront disclosure: I read Premonitions when it was a head dump of a few chapters; read it again when it was a complete novel in need of love; months, years whiz by. Read Premonitions when was being shopped around by an agent. Ran through it again recently.
There is something satisfying in watching the evolution of a head dump into a full-fledged novel of power and sass, tenderness and carrying, and, of course, much danger, death, and destruction. The author has woven a story that is every parent's nightmare on steroids where bad guys hold all the cards and their opponents are little kids and one kick-butt lady named Mallory with attitude to spare when it comes to her kids and her premonitions.
Like many thrillers, this is one best served and read in a single sitting. I'm not a devotee of thrillers. They rely on me suspending too much of my disbelief as my anal retentive, procedural-oriented brain sniffs minor cracks in the plans of both the bad and good buys. However, I never waived though in my belief that the author was going to take me on Mr. Toad's Wild Ride and then some. Take Premonitions with you when you have the time to feast on the words and enjoy the story as a single meal. It is a solid "4".
There is something satisfying in watching the evolution of a head dump into a full-fledged novel of power and sass, tenderness and carrying, and, of course, much danger, death, and destruction. The author has woven a story that is every parent's nightmare on steroids where bad guys hold all the cards and their opponents are little kids and one kick-butt lady named Mallory with attitude to spare when it comes to her kids and her premonitions.
Like many thrillers, this is one best served and read in a single sitting. I'm not a devotee of thrillers. They rely on me suspending too much of my disbelief as my anal retentive, procedural-oriented brain sniffs minor cracks in the plans of both the bad and good buys. However, I never waived though in my belief that the author was going to take me on Mr. Toad's Wild Ride and then some. Take Premonitions with you when you have the time to feast on the words and enjoy the story as a single meal. It is a solid "4".
February 9, 2013
Premonitions was hard to put down so I read it straight through, definitely a thriller. Mallory, a young wife and mother of two (compared by another reviewer to Jodie Foster, my favorite actress) finds herself in the middle of a school shooting but not by your typical whacko dropout. No, this is international with professionals. Mallory has an ability to sense something wrong; she has premonitions; a stone enters her stomach and nothing will stop her from protecting those she loves: In this case, her nine-year-old son, Max, and her six-year-old daughter, Dahlia. The author drops us into the school lockdown in the first paragraph, then with excellent flashback she discusses past events, her husband, and her children, humorously, lovingly, deliciously. The flashbacks go on and distract not at all from the evil going on at that school.
She shouldn't even be at the school but a series of minor events and a favor to another mother puts her in Max’s third grade classroom where she helps the teacher by reading to the class when she has that premonition, and stops reading in mid-sentence. The author, Amber Colleen, does this so well that I felt instant goosebumps.
Sometimes her descriptions and narrative put me close to tears; then she says something to make me laugh—thank God, and I’m able to breathe again. One thing the author made very clear: We—all of us—reach, at some point in our lives, as she said, a ‘defining moment,’ and God help us if we haven’t experienced enough of life to be ready.
She shouldn't even be at the school but a series of minor events and a favor to another mother puts her in Max’s third grade classroom where she helps the teacher by reading to the class when she has that premonition, and stops reading in mid-sentence. The author, Amber Colleen, does this so well that I felt instant goosebumps.
Sometimes her descriptions and narrative put me close to tears; then she says something to make me laugh—thank God, and I’m able to breathe again. One thing the author made very clear: We—all of us—reach, at some point in our lives, as she said, a ‘defining moment,’ and God help us if we haven’t experienced enough of life to be ready.
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