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Welcome to the Tag Team Event for Fatal Agreements by Ashley Fontainne. this event is where Laura @ fuonlyknew and I, sherry @ fundinmental, offer you reviews and multiple chances to win. Ashley is offering some fabulous gifts for the giveaway, so, after reading my review, be sure and scroll down to enter.
Ashley Fontainne comes up with some great covers for her fabulous books, and Fatal Agreements will reveal secrets, secrets that refuse to stay buried.
Cover: One of a Kind
MY REVIEW
No one messes with Sam’s sister, Suzy. I love Sam’s loyalty. She’s a “book nerd with a mouth” and Suzy’s the “socialite party girl.” She’s a quick talker, but with a short fuse. Fists fly almost as quickly as her words. But, she does listen when something rings right and Ms Townsend’s idea begins percolating in her mind. Using her ability to talk her way out of almost anything would make her a great litigator. She immediately went home and asked her dad if she could start watching L A Law.
Now she’s grown and buying her own home. One she has dreamt of owning for a very long time, The Halstead House. Only she changer the name to Lily Belle. It will be her office and her home.
No one knew the real reason she had quit her job and moved home. It was her and her friend , Resa’s, secret to bear. But secrets rarely stayed buried and she is not the only hiding things.
I love her Swisher smoking Nana. She’s a real hoot. All the ladies are strong and it’s no wonder they butt heads all the time.
Richard: Sam was his property, he owned her, and he will not let her go. How far will he go? Will it be life or death for one of them? He is a vile creature. No one is safe until they find a way to deal with him. He has no problem with beating, torture and murder.
Ashley Fontainne has a way with words and her stories go further and deeper than my thoughts. She fills Fatal Agreements with twist after twist and turn after turn. I had a feeling the house held some secrets…But, what? And who’s secrets are they?
Kip is just plain pathetic. Easily manipulated.
Bradford…I love this man. A retired cop. sometimes you have to stoop to the criminal’s level to get justice.
Secrets and sadness. So much sadness. so much happening to all the characters. I wonder who will be left standing and what shape they will be in.
The pace is picking up. It’s time to gather the forces and ready ourselves for the finish, because I have a feeling with Ashley Fontainnes’s ability to take a story and wring every what if, how about it situation you can think of and some you can’t are coming our way?
Where is he? What’s he doing right this second? As I sit here, I can picture him, getting into the moment, thinking…Is she being too lackadaisical? Too confident?
I know you too well Ashley. You can’t fool me. I know you have some delicious nuggets of goodness, or should I say badness, coming until the very last page is read.
“Mama bear’s on the hunt and she’s got back up and bullets.”
I voluntarily reviewed a free copy of Fatal Agreements by Ashley Fontainne.
4 Stars
GOODREADS BLURB
Whispered rumors tickled the ears of the residents of an entire town for decades about the disturbing secrets of the old Halstead House, dating all the way back to the early 1920s. Most people didn’t believe them. Several people will soon discover they should have listened.
Three years after struggling to cope with the death of her beloved father and escaping an abusive relationship, Samantha Chapman decides it’s time to return to her hometown of Hot Springs. She buys the ramshackle Halstead House, eager to transform the dilapidated, abandoned piece of history into her new law office and residence, hoping it will be the start of a brighter chapter and a safe haven to escape her personal demons.
Instead of newfound freedom, things take a dark turn when the resurrection of the old home reveals the disturbing secrets hidden within its walls. When youthful transgressions of numerous people come to light, including ones some members of the Chapman family are desperate to contain, it reveals the sins of the past. They collide with the grave mistakes of the present, creating a perfect storm of chaos and death for not only the Chapman family but others as well.
Some will survive.
Others will get burned.
Sam and her loved ones realize some family secrets should have remained buried.
ABOUT ASHLEY FONTAINNE (from her website)
Award-winning and International bestselling author Ashley Fontainne is an avid reader of mostly the classics. Ashley became a fan of the written word in her youth, starting with the Nancy Drew mystery series. Stories that immerse the reader deep into the human psyche and the monsters that lurk within us are her favorite reads.
Her muse for penning the Eviscerating the Snake series was The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. Ashley’s love for this book is what sparked her desire to write her debut novel, Accountable to None, the first book in the trilogy. With a modern setting to the tale, Ashley delves into just what lengths a person is willing to go when they seek personal justice for heinous acts perpetrated upon them. The second novel in the series, Zero Balance. focuses on the cost and reciprocal cycle that obtaining revenge has on the seeker. For once the cycle starts, where does it end? How far will the tendrils of revenge expand? Adjusting Journal Entries answered that question: far and wide.
Her short thriller entitled Number Seventy-Five, touches upon the sometimes dangerous world of online dating. Number Seventy-Five took home the BRONZE medal in fiction/suspense at the 2013 Readers’ Favorite International Book Awards contest and is currently in production for a feature film.
Her paranormal thriller entitled The Lie, won the GOLD medal in the 2013 Illumination Book Awards for fiction/suspense and is also in production for a feature film entitled Foreseen.
Ashley’s decided to delve into the paranormal with a Southern Gothic horror/suspense novel, Growl, which released in January of 2015. The suspenseful mystery Empty Shell, released in September of 2014. Ashley will be teaming up with Lillian Hansen (Ashley calls her mom!) to pen a three-part murder mystery/suspense series entitled The Magnolia Series. The first book, Blood Ties, is due out the Summer of 2015.
Ashley also hosts The WriteStuff, a popular BlogTalk Radio show, each Friday night at 10 p.m. CST.
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GIVEAWAY
Woo Hoo! We have a fabulous giveaway today. Ashley Fontainne is offering 1 ebooks and 5 print copies for the giveaway. I am sorry to all my friends outside the US, but the giveaway is US only. All you need to do is answer the question:
I believe we all keep secrets, the big question to me is…WHY. Why do you keep secrets?
For a second look review and more chances to win, visit fuonlyknew.
Giveaway ends 10.8.18
Ashley Fontainne’s writing is so spectacular, I am always eagerly awaiting the next book. Here are MY REVIEWS…so far:
I try to be a good listener. People can vent their frustrations to me, and I won’t spread their emotional words. That’s why I keep secrets.
Yes, Fontainne has great covers! It’s what made me pick up Growl in the first place. I like this latest cover just as much!
You sound like a good friend to have. I read Growl too. Happy to know you are familiar with her work.
I am reserved and quiet so when confidential information is given to me I guard it well. I have always been loyal and secrets are safe with me. The cover is dramatic and wonderful.
Everyone can use a friend like you. Thanks for commenting and good luck.
Great review, Sherry. Looks like we felt the same about a lot of things in this book. And I loved Bradford too! I try not to be told a secret. That way it doesn’t hang over me or put me in a difficult situation.
I feel the same way about secrets.. Thanks.
If someone thinks enough of me to tell their secret, I like to think I think enough of their trust and enough of myself to keep my mouth shut. Conversely, I try to never tell anything I don’t want made public!
Me too. In the world today, I think anything I say is out there for the world to see. lol
Glad you enjoyed it, I need to try this author.
Ashley writes some fantastic stories and some have been made into movies. I hope you get a chance to check out her work. I think you’ll love it.
Wow, I absolutely love that cover!
Sounds like a great story. Whenever there’s a creepy old house involved, I sit up and pay attention 🙂
She does her own covers and I agree, it is fabulous. I feel the same way about creepy houses. I want to know their secrets. lol