Hell Within Walking Distance
By Liza
O’Connor
A Love Story
With Paranormal Events
This story takes place in 1980, when Hell’s Kitchen remained
a dangerous place. As a young woman working in Manhattan, I was shocked how one
block could make such a huge difference in your likelihood to survive. I
traveled to NYC by train, so I had no option but to walk once I arrived at Penn
Station. What I quickly learned was to stay far away from Hell’s Kitchen, for
even in the early mornings it was NOT SAFE.
Blurb
Cara
faints on a subway and dreams that she wakes in the arms of an adoring husband.
This charming, caring man soon claims her heart.
When she
reawakens to her miserable life, the memory of her dream life gives her the
courage to escape her tormentor. Newly discovered friends help her disappear by
placing her in the household of a wealthy philanthropist who is determined to
pull his beloved wife out of her coma.
When Cara
realizes the philanthropist is her dream husband, she concludes she is to blame
for his wife’s coma. Cara is determined to do whatever it takes to return his
wife’s soul to her body, even if it kills her.
Excerpt
He
evidently sensed her growing ill will over their journey into hell. “I don’t
know why you’re in a mood. I’m the one who was unable to buy the coin I wanted.
However, if you have gotten us lost, I will
be the one who loses my temper.”
God, she hated him! Maybe she should have taken the
little Spanish guy up on his offer. Slavery and prostitution couldn’t be much
worse than her current situation. Yes, she lived in a beautiful high rise, but
other than geography, she didn’t see how her life was much better. She was a
virtual slave, waiting for Damon to decide what she could or couldn’t do. The
only ‘friends’ he permitted were the wives of his friends, and she could never get beyond their superficial
surface to find a personality to befriend. He monitored her food intake and her
exercising regime to ensure she maintained a pleasing body. He also selected
her reading material.
On
occasion, he would send her to a class to ‘improve’ her. The results always
disappointed him, and she would endure his lectures on her lack of ambition,
talent, and fortitude for many weeks after. However, her most unforgivable sin
was her birth in Hell’s Kitchen. He forbade her to tell a soul of her shameful
heritage. He provided her a more acceptable history, which she dutifully told to
any of the shallow people who pried into her life looking for weapons to use
against him.
“Forget
your past,” he’d lectured her throughout their fifteen years of co-habitation.
However, today, when he wanted a damn coin from a merchant in Hell’s Kitchen,
she was suddenly expected not only to remember her past but become a ghetto
tour guide.
She
sighed in relief as the subway hole came into view. She could tell by the
rumbling of the sidewalk, the train was pulling in.
“Shit,
we are going to miss the train.” He took off running, leaving her behind.
She
tried to keep up, desperately tried. He never allowed her to carry money or
have her own subway card, and she knew from prior experience, if it came
between Damon catching the train or leaving her behind, he’d leave her in a
second. He had done it before, but normally it was in Midtown where she could
ask some kind looking gentleman for the cost of a token. There were no kind men
on these streets.
About the
Author
Liza
O’Connor has been writing books for most of her life. Only for the first ten
years she didn’t show them to anyone. Then she joined a group called the
Rom-critters and her she learned how to make her stories better.
Liza
has published over 50+ books
Liza
writes fiction, but all her books have a bit of her life in them. As strange as
it sounds, Hell Within Walking Distance has much of her life within the story.
Liza
is trying to publish a book a month, so more of her books can be published and
read. Most of these books were written in her most creative years. But she is
still writing new books as well. It just takes longer to write a new book,
rather than to improve an already written book from her backlog.
She
also writes in many genres, including: Historical and Contemporary Romance,
Sci-Fi, Paranormal, Modern Western, Fantasy, Ghost stories, Humor, and more.
For
a full listing, check out the back pages of one of her current year’s books.
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