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    Tremors (Ebook Shorts) (Stone Braide Chronicles): A Stone Braide Chronicles Story
    Tremors (Ebook Shorts) (Stone Braide Chronicles): A Stone Braide Chronicles Story
    Tremors (Ebook Shorts) (Stone Braide Chronicles): A Stone Braide Chronicles Story
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    Tremors (Ebook Shorts) (Stone Braide Chronicles): A Stone Braide Chronicles Story

    By Bonnie S. Calhoun

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    Selah is haunted by strange dreams.
    But it is her waking nightmare that frightens her most.

    The tsunami during the Time of Sorrows came with a ferocious silence. The seas pulled back from the shore, gathered their strength and their fury, and attacked without warning on a bright, clear day.

    To Selah Rishon Chavez, the troubling dreams she has of this event cannot take her mind off her own dismal reality. As her eighteenth Birth Remembrance approaches, she's just weeks away from an arranged marriage to a young man she doesn't even know. To top it off, she's been barred from moving about the settlement unescorted, her father and brothers meet her questions with indifferent silence or outright lies, and her mother is powerless to intervene.

    Tremors invites you to experience the time leading up to Thunder--as one girl prepares to take her future into her own hands.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBaker Publishing Group
    Release dateAug 5, 2014
    ISBN9781441223104
    Tremors (Ebook Shorts) (Stone Braide Chronicles): A Stone Braide Chronicles Story
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    Bonnie S. Calhoun

    Bonnie S. Calhoun is the author of Thunder and Lightning, the first two books in the Stone Braide Chronicles. She loves to write, but it doesn't make her happy unless there are the three Bs: body count, blood, and blowing things up. She also has mad skills at coding HTML and website design. Bonnie lives in a log cabin in the woods with fifteen acres and a pond full of bass. But she'd rather buy fish, ready to eat and under plastic, at the grocery store. She shares her domain with a husband, a dog, and two cats, all of whom think she is waitstaff. Learn more at www.bonniescalhoun.com.

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    • 5/5
      UPS: I have been beyond anxious waiting for Thunder, so I jumped at the chance to read the short prequel (that happened to be free on Amazon ;-), Tremors on my kindle. Though the very beginning of the book had something wrong with the format and I was not able to read the first few pages (I think…), I read enough to know what was going on without being totally confused. Tremors is written in first person, and I really enjoyed the way that it is written and I enjoyed getting to know Selah for that brief amount of time. Tremors is a great set up to Thunder and I would suggest owning (or at least having it on it’s way) Thunder before reading, as it ends leaving you full of questions and wanting to know what happens next (like, I’m starting Thunder tonight!)!

      DOWNS: Even though Tremors only has like 3 chapters (took me about 30 minutes to read), it did have some violence and content not recommended for younger audiences (nothing sexual other than a few comments such as, “This one’s for the ladies!”, but from how the storyline was going, I do expect at least kissing to be in the rest of the series.). I would keep the age limit, preferably at, at least 14 years of age, but absolutely not under 13 for the potential violence that I expect from the series.

      OVERALL: I give Tremors 5 out of 5 stars for being well written and grabbing my attention from page 1! This is one of the best prequels that I have ever read!
    • 3/5
      Hmm...A novella full of questions: a prequel setup for future answers. Maybe there wasn't enough context explained to get me interested enough to continue the series, but it did put this author on my radar.

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    Tremors (Ebook Shorts) (Stone Braide Chronicles) - Bonnie S. Calhoun

    © 2014 by Bonnie S. Calhoun

    Published by Revell

    a division of Baker Publishing Group

    P.O. Box 6287, Grand Rapids, MI 49516-6287

    www.revellbooks.com

    All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—for example, electronic, photocopy, recording—without the prior written permission of the publisher. The only exception is brief quotations in printed reviews.

    ISBN 978-1-4412-2310-4

    This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

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    Excerpt from the book Thunder

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    Hilton Head Island, South Carolina

    Three young men pulled off what they thought was the coup of the century—spending the night in sleeping bags under a large outcropping on Grasslawn Beach.

    Dude, I told you we could get away with it. The blond surfer unzipped himself from his sleeping bag and brushed the sand from his hair. He slapped his tattooed friend a high five.

    You were right, man. This saved us way mucho bucks, the tattooed guy said.

    This is the bomb, the tall surfer declared as he stood and stretched himself to his full six feet. I really thought they’d catch us down here.

    I told you nobody checks the beach after eleven at night, the blond said as he pulled his board from under the outcropping.

    Man, this sea air really knocked me out. It’s after one already. Let’s hit the waves. Look at ’em! Tattooed Guy cupped his hands over his eyes to peer at the pounding surf.

    The three made a contest of who would get their boards in the water first.

    Dude, we have the beach to ourselves. How much better can it get? Tall Guy paddled out to the approaching wave on his belly. Reaching the point where he saw good waves breaking, he sat with his legs straddling the board, watching the other two paddling to him. Come on, move it! I’d at least like to catch one wave before I’m old and gray! He whipped his hair around and flexed his muscles.

    This is really pretty cool. We’re all alone. No amateurs to get in our way. Nothing but sun and hangin’ ten for the whole day. Blond Guy sat up beside him, waiting for his tattooed friend. Come on, did you forget how to swim?

    They didn’t notice the current pulling them away from the beach. Suddenly a wave surge nearly landed them on top of each other. Their boards clicked together.

    Hey, easy, man, what’s up? Don’t scratch the merchandise. This cobalt-blue baby is my pride and joy. It needs to look good for the ladies. Tall Guy grinned and checked his board for damage.

    Did you feel that? Blond Guy looked into the water.

    Feel what? Tattooed Guy fisted his hands on his hips, his legs dangling in the water. Sea spray filled his hair and dripped down his bronzed torso.

    The pull of the current. Look, we’ve moved pretty far from land. Tall Guy squinted. Why does the beach all of a sudden look really wide?

    Aw, man, forget it! Here comes a wave. Let’s rock. Blond Guy stood up on his board, swaying back and forth, waiting for the wave to lift them up.

    The water growled up out of the sea as the shoaling wave grew to a height of fifty feet. The boys barely had time to react. When they did, it was already too late. They would not reach the top of that wave, or take a first ride on a new surfboard, or have the ride of

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