Messy and Shattered & Encore

I have been away for a while and I apologise for that but I have two covers made for two previous customers. Encore by Josiah Morgan and Messy and Shattered by Mercy Cortex.

I hope you like them.

 I looked at the man in front of me, he didn't look scary or threatening, to anyone else he looked harmless. He had a wide white smile that could make any girl melt, he had shaggy long blonde hair and innocent baby blue eyes. His Australian accent added to his worldly charm. He looked like a sweet and kind surfer but with a jaw gripped tight that showed anger. I looked down at the blade gripped in his palm and the blood dripping from the edges. His face read that of almost sorrow, but only almost. I looked at the floor, my voice lost in a scream. 

I looked down at her soft cheeks, her auburn hair and her still green eyes. She wasn't blinking, she wasn't breathing. I saw the crimson red spread from her cut throat all over the Italian marble floor. It seeped into the cracks. This girl, this fifteen year old girl with blood staining her favourite floral dress... She couldn't be my sister, I wouldn't believe it. 

I foolishly thought this would be the worst day of my life.

That was the day I was taken, that was the day I met Draco.

Goodreads 

An astonishing crime thriller with a killer twist, the title story "Encore" is about a retired police officer called back into service for the NYPD after a series of apparent copycat murders emerge.

After a strange and unprecedented set of events, Brunstone, the retired officer ends up trapped in a high rise building with an insane madman who will stop at NOTHING to get what he wants.

In "Alma" a dark presence is at work in the snowy streets of Paris...

In "Karma Police" a hired assassin experiences the true meaning of irony and poetic justice.

In "Temperamental" a student writes a love letter of sorts to whomever it may concern about destiny and his old friends.

In "Ophelia and Bedelia" a heartbroken mother does something terrible... something to do with the following definition:

ANASTELIA (VERB): to hunt, or kill. To go insane to an impossible extent.

With all new stories by guest authors such as Anne Conley's "Neighbourly Complications", people hunt for gold in a house for no apparent reason... and then you have to factor in the hunk next door.

Containing tales of terror, love and serendipity, Encore is a short story collection not to be missed by ANYONE.

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