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Marquel's Redemption
SPOILER ALERT - Please read no further!
To avoid spoilers, it is advised to read the first novel, Marquel, then Marquel's Dilemma before reading Marquel's Redemption
Marquel's Redemption
Recovering from a kidnapping that ended lives on Mt. Lee, Los Angeles, the actress best known by the stage name Marquel no longer has to worry about her abductor returning. Her live-in bodyguard, retired military officer Rick Jones, and his agency are keeping watch over tabloid-journalist-turned-kidnapper Mark Collins' friends in the Vasquez cartel.
While her living arrangement with Rick is strictly professional, their chemistry becomes unavoidable, making their proximity ever more challenging as she works through the losses that brought them together.
As past demons collide with unforeseen events, the present becomes a dangerous landscape where no one is safe!
Can Marquel endure the winding roads of fame and loss that will ultimately lead to her redemption?
To avoid spoilers, it is advised to read the first novel, Marquel, then Marquel's Dilemma before reading Marquel's Redemption
Marquel's Redemption
Recovering from a kidnapping that ended lives on Mt. Lee, Los Angeles, the actress best known by the stage name Marquel no longer has to worry about her abductor returning. Her live-in bodyguard, retired military officer Rick Jones, and his agency are keeping watch over tabloid-journalist-turned-kidnapper Mark Collins' friends in the Vasquez cartel.
While her living arrangement with Rick is strictly professional, their chemistry becomes unavoidable, making their proximity ever more challenging as she works through the losses that brought them together.
As past demons collide with unforeseen events, the present becomes a dangerous landscape where no one is safe!
Can Marquel endure the winding roads of fame and loss that will ultimately lead to her redemption?
198 pages, Paperback
Published September 22, 2018
About the author
Emily W. Skinner
12 books49 followersEmily had a goal when she was 15, she would have a daughter named Marquel and write a novel titled "Marquel." She accomplished both and more.
A member of The International Thriller Writers, Emily was a protege of the late master of the pulps or paperback originals, Harry Whittington. Emily interviewed Whittington during her days as a feature writer for the Clearwater Sun daily newspaper and its weekly division. They became friends and he taught her how to plot and gave her approval of the original outline and sample chapter for "Marquel" shortly before he died in 1989.
After Whittington passed away, Emily challenged herself to write as her mentor did and wrote a chapter a day and finished the novel "Marquel" in 52 days. For more details on the novel's history read: http://www.thefilmmom.blogspot.com/20...
Fast forward, a second daughter, Blair is born and Emily and husband Tom focus on raising their family. Both daughters are now grown and work in Hollywood. So this might be an example of art imitating life or the reverse?
A devoted Catholic, Emily is rekindling her love for writing and has just completed the movie script for "Marquel" and the pilot for her a young adult paranormal series appropriately named after her youngest child, "St. Blair: Children of the Night."
Her third book in the St. Blair: Children of the Night series: "The Diary of St. Blair" is set to release on All Saints Day, November 1st 2017.
Emily also writes under the name E.W. Skinner
When Emily isn't working as a marketing consultant or writing, she enjoys writing and producing short films. Emily is the proud Executive Producer of Blair Skinner's film "Relative Eternity," a 2012 LA Shorts Film Festival selection, Sunscreen Film Festival selection and Short Film Corner Festival de Cannes selection. Written, directed and edited by Blair Skinner, "Relative Eternity" is on snagfilms.com for your viewing pleasure. It is free to view.
Also, watch for Emily's short film "Dough Nuts and More," with daughter Marquel directing and the lead Jane Dough and daughter Blair, assistant director. The premise is based on Emily's experience as a sales rep.
Dough Nuts and More
Logline: Supermom and superstar sales rep Jane Dough has prepared for two years to close the biggest sale of her newspaper career when her presentation is disrupted by a call that her husband John is in the emergency room.
Follow Emily's Blog at: http://thefilmmom.blogspot.com/
A member of The International Thriller Writers, Emily was a protege of the late master of the pulps or paperback originals, Harry Whittington. Emily interviewed Whittington during her days as a feature writer for the Clearwater Sun daily newspaper and its weekly division. They became friends and he taught her how to plot and gave her approval of the original outline and sample chapter for "Marquel" shortly before he died in 1989.
After Whittington passed away, Emily challenged herself to write as her mentor did and wrote a chapter a day and finished the novel "Marquel" in 52 days. For more details on the novel's history read: http://www.thefilmmom.blogspot.com/20...
Fast forward, a second daughter, Blair is born and Emily and husband Tom focus on raising their family. Both daughters are now grown and work in Hollywood. So this might be an example of art imitating life or the reverse?
A devoted Catholic, Emily is rekindling her love for writing and has just completed the movie script for "Marquel" and the pilot for her a young adult paranormal series appropriately named after her youngest child, "St. Blair: Children of the Night."
Her third book in the St. Blair: Children of the Night series: "The Diary of St. Blair" is set to release on All Saints Day, November 1st 2017.
Emily also writes under the name E.W. Skinner
When Emily isn't working as a marketing consultant or writing, she enjoys writing and producing short films. Emily is the proud Executive Producer of Blair Skinner's film "Relative Eternity," a 2012 LA Shorts Film Festival selection, Sunscreen Film Festival selection and Short Film Corner Festival de Cannes selection. Written, directed and edited by Blair Skinner, "Relative Eternity" is on snagfilms.com for your viewing pleasure. It is free to view.
Also, watch for Emily's short film "Dough Nuts and More," with daughter Marquel directing and the lead Jane Dough and daughter Blair, assistant director. The premise is based on Emily's experience as a sales rep.
Dough Nuts and More
Logline: Supermom and superstar sales rep Jane Dough has prepared for two years to close the biggest sale of her newspaper career when her presentation is disrupted by a call that her husband John is in the emergency room.
Follow Emily's Blog at: http://thefilmmom.blogspot.com/
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February 7, 2019
Love love love this series
Well Joanne/Marquel finally get happiness in the final book. She lost alot of loved ones along her journey but Joanne is a strong woman and she made it through
Well Joanne/Marquel finally get happiness in the final book. She lost alot of loved ones along her journey but Joanne is a strong woman and she made it through
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