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A Thin Slice of Heaven
She had arranged to meet her husband in Northern Ireland for a second honeymoon, but when Charleigh arrives at the remote castle, she receives a message that he won’t be coming—and that he’s leaving her for another woman.
Stranded for the weekend by a snowstorm that has blocked all access to the castle, she finds herself three thousand miles from home in a country she knows nothing about.
She is soon joined by Sean Bracken, the great-grandson of Laird Bracken, the original owner of the castle, and she finds herself falling quickly and madly in love with him. There’s just one he’s dead.
As the castle begins to come alive with secrets from centuries past, she finds herself trapped between parallel worlds. Caught up in a mass haunting, she can no longer recognize the line between the living and the dead. Now she’s discovering that her appearance there wasn’t by accident—and is more earth-shattering than she ever suspected.
Stranded for the weekend by a snowstorm that has blocked all access to the castle, she finds herself three thousand miles from home in a country she knows nothing about.
She is soon joined by Sean Bracken, the great-grandson of Laird Bracken, the original owner of the castle, and she finds herself falling quickly and madly in love with him. There’s just one he’s dead.
As the castle begins to come alive with secrets from centuries past, she finds herself trapped between parallel worlds. Caught up in a mass haunting, she can no longer recognize the line between the living and the dead. Now she’s discovering that her appearance there wasn’t by accident—and is more earth-shattering than she ever suspected.
324 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 25, 2015
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About the author
P.M. Terrell
22 books242 followersp.m.terrell is the pen name for Patricia McClelland Terrell, the award-winning, internationally acclaimed author of more than 21 books in four genres: contemporary suspense, historical adventure/suspense, computer how-to and non-fiction.
Prior to writing full-time, she founded two computer companies in the Washington, DC Metropolitan Area. Among her clients were the Central Intelligence Agency, United States Secret Service, U.S. Information Agency, and Department of Defense. Her specialties were in white collar computer crimes and computer intelligence, themes that have carried forward to her contemporary suspense.
She has been a full-time author since 2002. Vicki’s Key was a top five finalist in the 2012 International Book Awards and 2012 USA Book Awards nominee, and The Pendulum Files was a national finalist for the Best Cover of the Year in 2014. The Tempest Murders was one of four finalists in the 2013 International Book Awards, cross-genre category.
Her historical suspense, River Passage, was a 2010 Best Fiction and Drama Winner. It was determined to be so historically accurate that a copy of the book resides at the Nashville Government Metropolitan Archives in Nashville, Tennessee.
She is also the co-founder of The Book ‘Em Foundation, an organization committed to raising public awareness of the correlation between high crime rates and high illiteracy rates. She is the organizer and chairperson of Book ‘Em North Carolina, an annual event held in Lumberton, North Carolina, to raise funds to increase literacy and reduce crime. For more information on this event and the literacy campaigns funded by it, visit www.bookemnc.org. She is also the founder of The Novel Business, mentoring authors in the business end and selling of books.
She sits on the board of the Friends of the Robeson County Public Library. She has also served on the boards of Robeson County Arts Council, Crime Stoppers and Crime Solvers and became the first female president of the Chesterfield County-Colonial Heights Crime Solvers in Virginia.
Prior to writing full-time, she founded two computer companies in the Washington, DC Metropolitan Area. Among her clients were the Central Intelligence Agency, United States Secret Service, U.S. Information Agency, and Department of Defense. Her specialties were in white collar computer crimes and computer intelligence, themes that have carried forward to her contemporary suspense.
She has been a full-time author since 2002. Vicki’s Key was a top five finalist in the 2012 International Book Awards and 2012 USA Book Awards nominee, and The Pendulum Files was a national finalist for the Best Cover of the Year in 2014. The Tempest Murders was one of four finalists in the 2013 International Book Awards, cross-genre category.
Her historical suspense, River Passage, was a 2010 Best Fiction and Drama Winner. It was determined to be so historically accurate that a copy of the book resides at the Nashville Government Metropolitan Archives in Nashville, Tennessee.
She is also the co-founder of The Book ‘Em Foundation, an organization committed to raising public awareness of the correlation between high crime rates and high illiteracy rates. She is the organizer and chairperson of Book ‘Em North Carolina, an annual event held in Lumberton, North Carolina, to raise funds to increase literacy and reduce crime. For more information on this event and the literacy campaigns funded by it, visit www.bookemnc.org. She is also the founder of The Novel Business, mentoring authors in the business end and selling of books.
She sits on the board of the Friends of the Robeson County Public Library. She has also served on the boards of Robeson County Arts Council, Crime Stoppers and Crime Solvers and became the first female president of the Chesterfield County-Colonial Heights Crime Solvers in Virginia.
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January 6, 2020
I have been loving P M Terrell’s work since I read my first book of hers, Vicki’s Key. Her ability to spin a tale of magic and mystery never fails me.
A freak snowstorm is always a good start, then add a haunted castle in Belfast, and Charleigh, who is supposed to meet her husband there for their anniversary. Everything about the book makes me eager to dive in.
“What you see a’fore you there is my Thin Slice of Heaven.”
Immediately Charleigh is thrown into a world of parallel universes, traveling between the past and the present…and he is there at her side, feeling familiar, yet something is off.
As the story unfolds, the characters come alive, drawing Charleigh deeper into the past and as the twist is exposed, the pieces all come together. A love story that surpasses time, eternal.
As reenactments of the past unfold before her eyes, I feel the terror and horror of the townspeople, and the family that inhabits the castle who feel responsible for all of them. I love the P M Terrell incorporates so much history in many of her novels, whether it’s ghosts of esp. Her research is topnotch.
Do you believe in ghosts? Reincarnation? Love that crosses all boundaries of time?
I do love to get lost and let the author take me where they want to, so that I can walk in a character’s footsteps and P M Terrell’s novels allow her stories to come to life right before my eyes.
I voluntarily reviewed a free copy of A Thin Slice of Heaven by P M Terrell.
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A freak snowstorm is always a good start, then add a haunted castle in Belfast, and Charleigh, who is supposed to meet her husband there for their anniversary. Everything about the book makes me eager to dive in.
“What you see a’fore you there is my Thin Slice of Heaven.”
Immediately Charleigh is thrown into a world of parallel universes, traveling between the past and the present…and he is there at her side, feeling familiar, yet something is off.
As the story unfolds, the characters come alive, drawing Charleigh deeper into the past and as the twist is exposed, the pieces all come together. A love story that surpasses time, eternal.
As reenactments of the past unfold before her eyes, I feel the terror and horror of the townspeople, and the family that inhabits the castle who feel responsible for all of them. I love the P M Terrell incorporates so much history in many of her novels, whether it’s ghosts of esp. Her research is topnotch.
Do you believe in ghosts? Reincarnation? Love that crosses all boundaries of time?
I do love to get lost and let the author take me where they want to, so that I can walk in a character’s footsteps and P M Terrell’s novels allow her stories to come to life right before my eyes.
I voluntarily reviewed a free copy of A Thin Slice of Heaven by P M Terrell.
See more at fundinmental
May 22, 2015
I have come to realize that there isn’t a book that p.m. has written that I haven’t loved. She plys her words like a fine wine aged to just the perfect taste, and I cannot get enough. Charleigh was so unhappy and just didn’t expect her husband to deny her their second honeymoon. The shock of his text causes her to do something she might not have otherwise and she enters a world that seems to be tailored to her every wish.
I cannot say that I did not wish more than once to be Charleigh, and I could see what was going on a little better than she could. I got so invested in this story, that coming out of the book was like a culture shock and I didn’t want to be out here. It is a truly beautiful story of love, death and the circles that actually exist so closely together. I highly recommend this story to everyone, a story of haunting proportions securely tied with love that never dies and finished up with an Irish bow that we cannot help but love. I want to thank p.m. terrell for giving me her book to read and review, as always an extreme pleasure! Five stars for A Slice of Heaven.
I cannot say that I did not wish more than once to be Charleigh, and I could see what was going on a little better than she could. I got so invested in this story, that coming out of the book was like a culture shock and I didn’t want to be out here. It is a truly beautiful story of love, death and the circles that actually exist so closely together. I highly recommend this story to everyone, a story of haunting proportions securely tied with love that never dies and finished up with an Irish bow that we cannot help but love. I want to thank p.m. terrell for giving me her book to read and review, as always an extreme pleasure! Five stars for A Slice of Heaven.
May 20, 2015
I have never read this author before but I am hooked from this book and plan to read her other books. I absolutely loved this book. It had paranormal and romance my 2 favorite things then you throw in the setting of Ireland and this book was Amazing! I felt like I was in Ireland P.M. describes it so well and the story line had me turning the pages just so I could see what was going happen next. With romance, history, paranormal, and characters you fall in love with this is definitely one of my favorite reads this year. 5/5 Bloody Fangs
December 26, 2017
I adored A Thin Slice of Heaven, and couldn’t put it down. It was packed full of intensity and emotion, with some fabulous wisdom thrown into mix.
It is a love story, a ghost story, a historical novel and a contemporary romance all rolled into one. It is gripping, and filled with mystery and atmosphere that feels real enough to be heart-breaking and creepy by turns. And at the same time it is beautiful enough to make the reader fall helplessly in love.
A romantic, second-honeymoon at a historic castle in Ireland is Charleigh Dircks’ last hope for saving her failing marriage. But when her husband is delayed at work in Europe, she ends up making the long flight from the US, and arriving at the castle alone, during a blizzard.
She is the only guest to arrive that night. She is the only person staying in the castle. And yet, she has a visitor, one who will change everything.
This is the first book I’ve read by PM Terrell, but I’m thoroughly looking forward to coming back for more.
It is a love story, a ghost story, a historical novel and a contemporary romance all rolled into one. It is gripping, and filled with mystery and atmosphere that feels real enough to be heart-breaking and creepy by turns. And at the same time it is beautiful enough to make the reader fall helplessly in love.
A romantic, second-honeymoon at a historic castle in Ireland is Charleigh Dircks’ last hope for saving her failing marriage. But when her husband is delayed at work in Europe, she ends up making the long flight from the US, and arriving at the castle alone, during a blizzard.
She is the only guest to arrive that night. She is the only person staying in the castle. And yet, she has a visitor, one who will change everything.
This is the first book I’ve read by PM Terrell, but I’m thoroughly looking forward to coming back for more.
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