✍ Scribed by Ken Douglas
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Maggie Nesbitt is pregnant and depressed, because her husband isn't the father of her unborn child. She's thinking about abortion when she's attacked on the beach. She barely gets away, then gets the shock of her life the next morning when she sees that she has been killed on the news and that her nude body had been dumped in the trash behind a beachside bar. She finds out the body behind the bar is the twin sister she'd been told had died when she was two weeks old. She also learns her twin was divorced from a horrid man and that she had an eight-year-old daughter, Jasmine. Maggie, showing a bump on her head she got while getting away from her attackers, claims partial amnesia and steps into her dead twin's life. This way she can have her baby, give it a home, and save Jasmine from having to go and live with her father. But she doesn't know her twin saw someone do murder. And that someone thinks he killed the wrong woman.
Have you ever been so depressed, not suicidal, because suicide is stupid, but so depressed that you’d do anything to get out of your life, if you only could? Have you ever wanted anything badly enough to walk away from it all?
Maggie Nesbitt has. She’s pregnant and her famous newsman husband isn’t the father of her child. She’s going to get an abortion, but not before she gets good and drunk. Drinking is bad for the baby, but so what? It’s going to be dead in a few days anyway. However a chance encounter in a supermarket leads her to believe the twin she’d thought had died in infancy may still be alive, and living not far away. Curiosity gets her out of the doldrums, she hops a bus, goes to her sister’s and through a seemingly unconnected series of events winds up stepping into her twin’s life.
She did this because while at her sister’s, she sees on the news that Nick Nesbitt’s wife had been found murdered, her nude body discovered behind a gay bar. She quickly figures out that someone has killed her twin, thinking it was her, or maybe it was random, either way, she now has a way out of her problem. She can keep her baby. All she has to do is takeover her twin’s life.
Easier said than done. Her sister had a daughter, friend’s that knew her, an ex-husband and a brand new fiancé, plus a killer after her, because unknown to Maggie, the killer wasn’t after her, he was after her twin, and when he finds out the woman he killed is still walking, talking and breathing, he’s not very happy.
Ken Douglas has written a woman in pearl thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat as you read the night away. Or if you have a long flight, DEAD RINGER will cut it short.
Maggie Nesbitt is pregnant and depressed, because her husband isn’t the father of her unborn child. She’s thinking about abortion, when she’s attacked on the beach. She barely gets away, then gets the shock of her life the next morning when she sees that she has been killed on the news and that her nude body had been dumped in the trash behind a beachside bar.
She finds out the body behind the bar is the twin sister she’d been told had died when she was two weeks old. She also learns her twin was divorced from a horrid man and that she had an eight-year-old daughter, Jasmine.
Maggie, showing a bump on her head she got while getting away from her attackers, claims partial amnesia and steps into her dead twin’s life. This way she can have her baby, give it a home, and save Jasmine from having to go and live with her father. But she doesn’t know her twin saw someone do murder.
And now that someone thinks he killed the wrong woman.
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