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    The Lady with Blue Lips
    The Lady with Blue Lips
    The Lady with Blue Lips
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    The Lady with Blue Lips

    By Brenda Franklin

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    It's more than just a cold draft, a simple shadow out the corner of the eye; the sound of movement when no one's there.

    Olivia Strange just moved into her new apartment with her cat Lexington and already strange things are happening! But can Olivia figure out what's going on or will she be the next person to disappear?

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    A scurry across the floor jerked her head to the side where she saw nothing. She couldn't see the floor well at all from where she was sitting so she eased forward, still holding onto her blanket, to check. She wanted to be sure there wasn't a rat running across her floor. Just as she leaned her body over the edge of the bed is when she felt a shift in the bed around her. It seemed to depress. Her hair stood on end and her arms became riddled with goose bumps, than the light snapped off with a metallic sound.

    She jumped turning to look at the lamp which was still semi visible in the dark thanks to both the moon light from the open curtains of the windows and her clock. She reached out to turn the lamp back on but nothing. The bulb had blown. A second sound of movement slid across the floor.

    “It’s okay. Get a hold of yourself.” She mumbled in the darkness letting out another hot breath between her trembling teeth. Her eyes strained to see before she remembered her flashlight tucked away.

    She reached down to the floor and eased her hand under the bed. Her fingers reaching out for the flashlight she knew should have been within reach, but now, when she needed it most she struggled to find the darn thing.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrenda Franklin
    Release dateOct 24, 2012
    ISBN9781301884322
    The Lady with Blue Lips
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    Brenda Franklin

    Brenda Franklin was born and raised in Louisiana surrounded by fantasy, romance, and the paranormal. She's always had a love for writing, having written her first horror story before middle school about a monster that devoured people in the night-I believe they call him the Boogie Man.Brenda points the blame/thanks for her obsessive need to write and read about vampires to her father who had an old bookshelf in their living room when she was growing up. From top to bottom it was filled with combat related books, old westerns, books by Dean Koontz, Stephen King, and Brian Lumley, and many more fascinating reads. But the book Brenda remembers the most was ‘Interview with a Vampire’ by Anne Rice. After reading it, she's never been the same since.She's the author of paranormal romance books, The Pulse Trilogy:A Steady PulseBarely BeatingFlat Line

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      The Lady with Blue Lips - Brenda Franklin

      The Lady with Blue Lips

      Published by Brenda Franklin at Smashwords

      Copyright 2012 Brenda Franklin

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      About the Author

      Brenda Franklin lives in Louisiana surrounded by the family she loves. When she isn’t writing paranormal she enjoys long walks in a cemetery, a good crime drama, and reading as many books as she can get her hands on.

      To follow more about the author join in author page or read more about her on her blog.

      Other works:

      The Lady with Blue Lips

      (A ghost story for FREE)

      Paranormal romance

      The Pulse Trilogy

      Book 1: A Steady Pulse

      Book 2: Barely Beating

      Book 3: Flat Line (coming Soon)

      Chapter One:

      The cold of the late winter’s night crawled across the thick maroon carpet overtaking everything in its path. Slowly the cold air found the bedpost and eased its way up it like a slow raising tide until it reached the tip of the hanging blanket.

      First the edges went cold before it drifted up and to the edge of the bed itself sliding onto and across the top of the surface. Like a wave rolling up and across the sand of a beach with its icy breath causing the woman below the blankets to tighten all the more tucked firmly in her warm cocoon.

      Again the wind blew fiercer than before stirring the tired woman who was now too cold to sleep. She sluggishly eased one eye open in protest and then the other. Her breath like hot steam eased out from under the blanket where her shaky hand emerged.

      She tapped the small lamp beside her bed three times to bring it to its fullest light. Pulling her hand quickly back under the blankets she looked toward the windows.

      Another breeze brushed against her shoulder. She couldn’t exactly make out if they were opened or not. She let out a long yawn and rubbed her eyes groaning as she decided she would have to get up and take a look. Obviously something had to be open to cause the winter’s night air to slip into the room.

      A scurry across the floor jerked her head to the side where she saw nothing. She couldn’t see the floor well at all from where she was sitting so she eased forward, still holding onto her blanket, to check. She wanted to be sure there wasn’t a rat running across her floor. Just as she leaned her body over the edge of the bed is when she felt a shift in the bed around her. It seemed to depress. Her hair stood on end

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