In 2008, Tropical Storm Fay hit Florida. She became the
first storm in recorded history to make landfall in Florida four times! She
released so much rain from her cloudy hands that the road and field across from
my trailer flooded, making it look like I lived in the middle of a lake. I
watched the water rise with growing anticipation. When the water lapped at the
top step, I was afraid it would spill over and leak across my living room.
While I nervously kept an eye on the water, a cat fish
swam up to greet me. He hung out around my front steps for several minutes
before swimming away. I remember hoping he’d find a lake or pond before the
earth swallowed the rain, but it continued to rain for days. I was strained in
my trailer for about a week, writing and suffering from cabin fever.
Tropical Storm Fay (as well as Hurricane Francis)
inspired Hurricane Crimes. She also had another impact on me. Shortly after she
finally decided to leave I came up with the last name for my pen name: Fey.
Although I chose it for its magical meaning, I still believe the storm gave my
muse a nudge in the right direction.
And that cat fish I saw later became the star of Seismic
Crimes.
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Mosquitoes swarmed inside the car, attracted to the foot
of murky water at the bottom. The hum of their music beat against her eardrums.
She moved to the driver’s door and bent down to peer
through the window. For a moment, she saw Donovan sitting there, his body
hunched over the steering wheel. She nearly lifted her hands to bang on the
window as she had done before, but she heard his voice behind her and knew the
vision wasn’t real. When she blinked, her eyelids swiped the vision away like windshield
wipers. Movement caught her attention. Cupping her hands against the glass, she
saw ripples dance along the water’s surface. She squinted to see better and
vaulted backward when something leapt out of the water, somersaulted in the
air, and landed with a splash. A catfish had made Donovan’s car into a swimming
pool. She couldn’t stop the laughter from bubbling out of her mouth.
Donovan came up beside her. “What’s so funny?”
Beth pointed. “You have a catfish in your car.”
Donovan bent down to have a look for himself. “So I do.”
Title: Seismic Crimes
Author: Chrys Fey
Series: Disaster Crimes
Series (Book Two)
Publisher: The Wild Rose
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Format: Digital and Print
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An Internal Affairs Investigator was
murdered and his brother, Donovan Goldwyn, was framed. Now Donovan is desperate
to prove his innocence. And the one person who can do that is the woman who
saved him from a deadly hurricane—Beth Kennedy. From the moment their fates
intertwined, passion consumed him. He wants her in his arms. More, he wants her
by his side in his darkest moments.
Beth Kennedy may not know everything
about Donovan, but she can’t deny what she feels for him. It’s her love for him
that pushes her to do whatever she has to do to help him get justice, including
putting herself in a criminal’s crosshairs.
When a tip reveals the killer's
location, they travel to California, but then an earthquake of catastrophic
proportions separates them. As aftershocks roll the land, Beth and Donovan have
to endure dangerous conditions while trying to find their way back to one
another. Will they reunite and find the killer, or will they lose everything?
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