CFBA Presents DARK PURSUIT by Brandilyn Collins

This week, theChristian Fiction Blog Allianceis introducingDark PursuitZondervan - December 1, 2008byBrandilyn Collins


ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Brandilyn Collins is known for her trademark Seatbelt Suspense®. She is currently working on her 20th book. For chances to win free copies of her work, join her Fan Club on Facebook. Here’s what Brandilyn has to say about why she wrote Dark Pursuit:

In John Milton’s Paradise Lost Satan’s followers, kicked out of heaven, boast about storming the gates and reclaiming their territory. Beelzebub scoffs at their boasting as merely “hatching vain empires” and suggests a different revengeful scheme: seduce mankind away from God. So Satan visits the Garden of Eden to teach humans the very thing he and his cohorts have learned to be futile—the dark pursuit of hatching their own vain empires instead of following God. He presented man with this “gift” of death, disguised as life. And man fell for it.

Upon this theme of man’s fall and spiritual blindness, I created the characters and events in Dark Pursuit. The story clips along at a fast pace, with much symbolism running underneath.


ABOUT THE BOOK

Dark Pursuit—A twisting story of murder, betrayal, and eternal choices

Novelist Darell Brooke lived for his title as King of Suspense—until an auto accident left him unable to concentrate. Two years later, reclusive and bitter, he wants one thing: to plot a new novel and regain his reputation.

Kaitlan Sering, his twenty-two-year-old granddaughter, once lived for drugs. After she stole from Darell, he cut her off. Now she’s rebuilding her life. But in Kaitlan’s town two women have been murdered, and she’s about to discover a third. She’s even more shocked to realize the culprit—her boyfriend, Craig, the police chief’s son.

Desperate, Kaitlan flees to her estranged grandfather. For over forty years, Darell Brooke has lived suspense. Surely he’ll devise a plan to trap the cunning Craig.

But can Darell’s muddled mind do it? And—if he tries—with what motivation? For Kaitlan’s plight may be the stunning answer to the elusive plot he seeks...

Read the first chapter of Dark Pursuit, HERE.


JEN'S REVIEW

Every now and then, you read a book that won't let you put it down. For me, this was one of those books.

Darell Brooke is a writer who can no longer writer, which terrifies him more than any of the suspenseful plots he cooked up in the past. When his granddaughter comes to him with a nightmare of her own, is he willing to risk both their lives on the hope that he can get his mind working again? Any writer who's ever hit a figurative stone wall with their manuscript will completely relate to Darell's desperate frustration.

Being that it's full of wonderful surprises, I don't want to give anything away. But I will say that it had me guessing until the very end. Collins creates unique characters that don't always act the way you expect them to... just like in real life! If you're a fan of hold-your-breath suspense, you'll enjoy Dark Pursuit.