When Ruth Butler escaped Texas for a sleepy seaside village in the south of England, it was to rescue her infant daughter from the perverted demon she had married. But after ten peaceful years her daughter Annie disappears.

Not far away, a madman has been trying in vain to turn back time. When Ruth turns out to be a dead ringer for his mother, the voices in his head haunt him day and night. The only way to stop his mother’s nagging is to kill her all over again.

Ruth must rely on her instincts and the ally she finds in an undercover detective who’s in town on unrelated business, but neither can search for Annie’s kidnapper openly. Nevertheless, the trail leads from a faceless body in Annie’s clothes to a smuggler’s cave, where the killer drains his victim’s blood an ounce at a time. But he’s got a special purpose for little Annie. He is patient. He will wait–until her mother comes to save her.

Deadly Thyme is created by R.L. Nolen, an eGlobal Creative Publishing Signed Author.

Deadly Thyme

   The bedsprings squeaked and groaned as Charles shifted his weight, setting off a cacophony of gaseous outlays. He couldn't sleep. An active brain didn't help matters. Next to him, The Wife lay on her stomach pretending to be asleep. He lay as still as he could, and listened. She was awake, breathing through her pillow in order not to smell him. He smiled to himself. Damn her efforts.


   He'd best rise up and get out of here before she started her insistent demands for sex. She'd been like that since their wedding day ten years before. He no longer touched her. How dare she think he desired a thirty-one-year-old bag o' bones like her? After all, with each new batch of blood, he grew younger.


Chapter 13