THE KALEIDOSCOPE
by B.K.
Nault
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BLURB:
Harold
Donaldson unwillingly becomes the custodian of a beautiful, handcrafted
kaleidoscope that changes the viewer’s future and becomes the focus of evil
operatives intent on capturing the kaleidoscope for nefarious purposes.
Brilliant but socially inept, Harold has distanced himself from any connection
to his dysfunctional childhood. Abandoned by a father accused of his mother’s
death, Harold trusts no one until the ’scope forces him to accept a circle of
friends he must rely on. To protect all their lives from imminent danger,
Harold must discover the source of the ’scope’s mysterious powers. Just as he
is on the verge of learning how it works and why his past connects to his
future, he must face disturbing truths he’s run from all his life.
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EXCERPT:
She yanked off the scarf and dropped it into his lap,
climbed up on the bench and began leaping from one bench to the next, her
sandals slapping the concrete.
Harold was afraid she would slip and fall, and wondered
whether he should first call someone, or check her for ABC’s if she did. But
she jumped lightly, a sprite among the forest of potted birds of paradise.
Airway, breathing, c...what was the C for?
“I’ve always wanted to do this! Haven’t you?” Where the
benches were too far apart, Pepper scissor- kicked to the ground and danced.
Harold could breathe as long as she was safely on the ground, her arms aloft,
her body swaying. Then she would leap up again, the sun reflecting off bald
spots between shags of spirally hair. And she laughed. Not a scary, maniacal
sound, but a child-like whiffle that whisked Harold back to the elementary
school when Edna Velasquez had tried to jump around the lunchroom but fell and
broke her arm when she slipped in pudding. Harold was the only one Edna didn’t
pester to sign her cast. Circulation. That was what C stood for.
Pepper collapsed next to him, panting, her caramel skin
aglow. She was a china doll with kewpie lips and taffy-pulled earlobes. “That
felt good, Harry.” She dabbed at her upper lip with the scarf, a tiny rattle in
her breath. “You should dance more. We should all dance more.”
The warmth from her body awoke something in him that had
long been dormant. Confused emotions tangled somewhere in his soul, and he met
her gaze.
“What makes you dance, Harry? What stirs your soul?”
She’d dared to pull at the thread he’d buried underneath
years of proving himself worthy, smart. Sane. “I find satisfaction in my work.”
“And what is that? No, wait. Let me guess. You’re a Pez-head
designer. No, a sign spinner for discount plastic surgeons. I could use one of
those by the way.”
He knew better than to acknowledge her cosmetic surgery
remark. Honest answers to conversations beginning with “Am I pretty enough?”
and “I’m thinking of getting work done” had never gone well with Georgia. “I’m
a fraud investigator.”
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Bev's a
graduate of Texas A&M University and is multi-published in both fiction and
nonfiction. She's the co-author of the best selling and award winning,
"Lessons from the Mountain, What I Learned from Erin Walton," with
the actress Mary McDonough. A former business writer, she’s dabbled in many
things from working as a theatre set dresser and props mistress to riding
horses at pre-Olympic levels, judging for the Miss America/California pageants,
and escorting her kids to work in Hollywood as professional extras. Married to
her high school sweetheart, they've lived in two countries and 6 states, but
promise they're not running from the law. A member of the RWA and ACFW, she
also blogs, tweets and Pinterests when she’s not dreaming up new stories or
planning a 'round the continent RV trip when said husband retires.
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