Blog Tour- If He Wakes - 9/5/18
Blog Tour
If He Wakes
by Zoe Lea
Today on my blog I have the pleasure of sharing with you.....
If He Wakes.
I would like to thank Ellie Pilcher from Canelo and Zoe Lea for inviting me on the blog tour.
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Book Information
Genre: Thriller, Psychological Thriller
Release Date: 30th April 2018
Publisher: Canelo
You can always trust your best friend… can’t you?
When Rachel discovers a Twitter message arranging a romantic liaison she assumes her husband is having an affair, and follows him. What she witnesses is so much worse: a hit and run using his car.
Meanwhile, Rachel’s friend and business partner Suzie is increasingly worried about her fiance, who’s not been in touch for days. When Suzie learns of huge debts racked up in her name she fears he has run out on her, but then the threatening calls start and she thinks something terrible has happened.
Rachel and Suzie are both about to learn shocking things about the men they love, worse than they could ever imagine… Can their friendship survive?
'A tense, pulse-quickening tale. If you read the first chapter, you can’t help but read the second. I flew through this perfect summer read of best friends in turmoil in one feverish session.' Paula Daly
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Extract
Suzie had been very still as she listened to Rachel talk about how it was most certainly Della, and how it was even possible that Twitter accounts could be hacked. She didn't say a word as Rachel came up with excuses as to what they'd both seen. They'd gone on to plan the Gatsby party then, but it had been under an atmosphere.
Rachel had taken out one of her personalised pens, a silver roller ball specially designed for the left handed, and laboriously written everything down as if she was afraid of opening up the laptop again.
Suzie had found it slightly infuriating as Rachel had filled the A4 pad, she'd wanted to grab the laptop and take it back to the Twitter account. She wanted to read each and every one of those messages, look at the images that had been sent and pull apart exactly what Phil had been up to.
She’d always thought Phil wasn’t the type. He seemed so reliable, so boring. As long as she’d known Phil he’d never once done anything to surprise her. He was predictable, reliable; it was what she supposed Rachel found attractive about him. Whenever Suzie saw him, he was quiet, happy to go along with whatever Rachel was planning. Happy to be told what to do. But as Rachel talked about the party, Suzie re-evaluated her opinion of him.
She wanted to take the pen from her friend and ask about her marriage. She wanted to look at the messages and see if it was Phil, see if he wasn’t predictable after all. But as Rachel talked about the arrangements to meet up the following day, she made it clear it wasn’t up for discussion. So Suzie had left to go on her jog. Now, sitting opposite her broken friend, it looked as though Rachel had done exactly what Suzie had wanted to as soon as she'd left.
Suzie looked at Rachel, sitting in the wheelchair at the hospital with her head in her hands, and felt a great wave of sympathy. Rachel knew. Deep down, she knew that her husband was being unfaithful, even if she hadn't seen him at the hotel that afternoon. Rachel had doubted him enough to go there. She had her suspicions. She just couldn't admit it to herself, yet.
‘It's okay,’ she said and put her arm around Rachel's shoulders. ‘I’m here now, I’ve got you. I’m not going anywhere.’
‘Mrs Farrell?’ a smiling nurse came toward them. ‘They're ready for you now.’ She went to push the wheelchair forward and Rachel looked to Suzie.
‘I'm coming,’ she said. ‘I'm right here.’
The nurse nodded. ‘You can wait for her outside the fracture ward then they'll be sending her home as soon as it's set. Shouldn't be too long.’
The nurse started to wheel Rachel away and Suzie walked alongside. They went out of the waiting room at a quick pace and just as they turned to go down the corridor, Suzie faltered in her step.
He was wearing a suit and tie. Carrying a briefcase with his overcoat slung over his arm, looking like the manager of some small car dealership. He came running over as soon as he saw them.
‘Oh my darling.’ He bent over and kissed Rachel full on the lips. ‘When Della phoned I was distraught, thank God I was able to get home.’
‘Phil,’ Rachel said his name as if she couldn't quite believe it was him, ‘why aren't you in London?’
‘Got the train back as soon as I heard,’ he’d said and Suzie watched as he looked at Rachel's ankle, shook his head in alarm and made sounds of sympathy.
‘But I asked Della not to call you,’ Rachel said. ‘I told her not to.’
‘Well she did,’ Phil ran his thumb along Rachel's cheek, removing the dark stains of mascara. ‘Thank God she did, because I’m here now. With you.’
He leaned forward and kissed Rachel’s cheek and Suzie couldn't be certain, but she was sure Rachel flinched at his touch.
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Author Bio
Zoe Lea lives in the Lake District with her husband, their two children, three dogs and peregrine falcons. She has previously worked as a teacher, photographer and freelance journalist and is a writer in the day and a reader by night. If He Wakes is her debut novel.
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