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Sunday 27 September 2015

☀☄ The Cypress Trap - J.C. Gatlin

Thank you for joining us on the Virtual Book Tour for The Cypress Trap, a Suspense Thriller by (, Blurb Publishing, Inc, 234 pages).

PREVIEW: Check out the book's synopsis, trailer and excerpt below, as well as our Q&A with author J.C. Gatlin.  Read the first three chapters with Amazon Look Inside.   The Cypress Trap is FREE on Kindle Unlimited and Kindle Owner's Lending Library.

Please do take part: comment on our post and follow the tour where you will be able to read excerpts (☀), interviews (ℚ), and reviews (✍).


Synopsis | Trailer | Teaser | Author Q&A | About the Author | Tour Stops

Synopsis

A good vacation delivers you home alive.
This is not a good vacation.


When Rayanne commandeers her husband’s weekend fishing trip, she knows it’ll take work to adjust Owen’s attitude. She has no choice. Since the tragedy, they lost so much. They need to reconnect.

Without her knowledge, Owen texts his best buddy, Daryl, to join the getaway. The three of them aren’t alone in the backwoods of Georgia, though.

Owen took something that didn’t belong to him. Something that changed their lives. And now the owner wants it back. By any means -- including a posse led by a killer dog.

At first, Rayanne is clueless about the item and its value. One thing becomes crystal clear: If it’s not returned, they might not make it home alive.

Teaser: Excerpt

     Rayanne heard the kids’ voices, and she looked again at the old cars in the bottom of the ditch. The first thing that came to mind was rattlesnakes. But she knew she couldn’t think of that right now.
     She got up and headed for the rusted jeep. The hood was gone and it looked like a corpse left to rot in the sun. She glanced at the other cars. There was a hatchback with no doors. A pickup was off to one side, on blocks. The wheels had been removed and the driver’s side door thrown open and left to hang. There was a yellow Volkswagen Beetle half buried in the dirt.
     Brown and yellow weeds sprouted up between the wrecks, but the ground was hard and Rayanne knew she had no choice. She raced past the rusting jeep, watching where she stepped.
     She moved to the shell of a Volkswagen Beetle. It had two doors. She forced the passenger side open and looked into the dank interior. The overhead lining draped down like a misty shroud. Weeds had grown through the undercarriage and overtaken the floorboards. But two front seats and a long backseat remained. It could be a hiding place, she thought, and squeezed herself into the backseat. She cowered as low as she could.
     She held her breath and prayed there was nothing living inside.
     She shut her eyes and listened. The teens’ voices grew louder. They sounded like they were coming down into the hollow and she could hear Scut—or was it Roddy—say something about the cars. He sounded excited.
     Dru was farther away. Rayanne could hear her calling the dog. Perhaps she didn’t want to walk down into the dump. It didn’t matter. Rayanne knew Scut and Roddy already had.
     Their voices echoed, slipping between the cars. One of them said something about the pile of tires and the other laughed. She could hear them moving about, throwing rocks on metal remains, until they stopped right in front of the Volkswagen.
     Rayanne stopped breathing.
     “She’s hide’n here somewhere,” Scut was saying. He threw another rock and it hit the bumper. The sound reverberated through the Volkswagen, and Rayanne shivered. “Naaaah,” Roddy said. It sounded like he was walking away. “I don’t think so. She’s a woman. She ain’t gonna come down here.”
     “We’re not leav’n till we search every car.” Scut sounded like he was stepping away too. She could hear him throwing rocks at other cars now.
      Rude Roddy was saying something when one of them screamed. For a second Rayanne thought Dru had made her way down into the dump. She was surprised to learn it was Scut.
     “There’s a rattler! There’s a rattler!” Scut’s high-pitched wail echoed through the hollow, and she heard what sounded like some kind of skirmish. Perhaps an avalanche of gravel rolled down the slopes of the hollow, like marbles beneath their feet.
     “I hate snakes! I hate ’em!” Scut’s voice rapidly moved away, and it sounded as far as Dru’s now. The girl asked them what was wrong.
      They had to have climbed out of the hollow, Rayanne thought. She opened her eyes. She wanted to poke her head up, but didn’t dare.

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About the Author

Coming from a large family with five brothers, JC Gatlin grew up in Grapevine, Texas, a small town outside of Dallas.  In 1999 he moved to Tampa, Florida, where he now resides.  JC’s fishing trips help him breathe authenticity into his stories, which feature the rich landscapes of Texas and Florida as backdrops.

He has written a monthly column in New Tampa Style magazine and penned several mystery-suspense stories.  His first, The Designated Survivor, was published in 2013.  JC invites you to visit his mystery writing blog at jcgatlin.com.

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Tour Stops

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September 28 - Satin's Bookish Corner
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September 30 - Novel News Network
October 1 - Books Direct
October 2 - Travelogue of a Book Addict
October 3 - Chosen By You Book Club
October 5 - A Life Through Books
October 6 - Steamy Side
October 7 - Texas Book Nook
October 8 - On a Reading Bender
October 9 - My Reading Addiction
October 12 - The Indie Express
October 13 - Mythical Books
October 14 - A Bibliopophia Anonymous
October 15 - A Little bit of R&R
October 16 - Always Jo Art
October 17 - Jody's Book Reviews
October 18 - eBook Addicts
October 19 - Around the World in Books
October 20 - Us Girls and a Book
October 21 - Gabina49's Blog
October 22 - A Fold in the Spine
October 23 - The Bookish Ailurophile
October 26 - Satin's Bookish Corner
October 27 - Nerdy, Dirty, and Flirty
October 28 - Bound 2 Escape
October 29 - Fantastic Feathers
October 30 - Tea Time and Books ☀
November 1 - Lilac Reviews
November 3 - Perfect at Midnight
November 4 - Author B.L. Blair
November 9 - Avenue Books
November 10 - The Self Taught Cook
November 13 - RABT Reviews

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