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Maternal Instinct (A Suburban Noir Short Story) Kindle Edition

by Cathryn Grant (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

13 ratings

Michelle is a good mom.

She and her family are enjoying a summer vacation at Pine Mountain Lake.

When she drives past two boys walking in the heat of the day, her maternal instinct kicks in and she offers them a ride.

Slowly she realizes these two are not what they seemed to be.

She is caught in a nightmare that may mean she will never see her family again.

Included with this short story are the first three chapters ofFaceless, a suburban noir novel where jealousy festering in social media opens the door to violence.

Cathryn Grant is the best-selling author of The Other Couple and the Alexandra Mallory Series.

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About the Author

"Cathryn's writing style amazed me. She was able to get inside the heads of her characters to an incredible degree and expose their vulnerabilities, their insecurities, their fears, and even mental illness without flinching."

Her fiction has appeared in Alfred Hitchcock and Ellery Queen Mystery Magazines, The Shroud Quarterly Journal, and The Best of Every Day Fiction. Her short story "I Was Young Once" received an honorable mention in the 2007 Zoetrope All-story Short Fiction contest.

She's the author of Suburban Noir novels, psychological thrillers, and ghost stories.

When she's not writing, Cathryn reads fiction, eavesdrops, and plays very high handicap golf. She lives on the Central California coast with her husband and two cats.

Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00UE1BGTO
Publisher ‏ : ‎ D2C Perspectives
Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 7, 2015
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2.1 MB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 66 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0989641098
Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled

Best Sellers Rank: #1,850,183 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #2,865 in Women's Psychological Fiction
- #2,897 in Literary Short Stories
- #3,197 in Women's Crime Fiction

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Cathryn is the author of over thirty psychological suspense novels, including the addictive ALEXANDRA MALLORY series featuring a sociopath you can’t help but love.

The things that cause torment in real life—obsession and revenge, guilt and envy and longing—are endlessly fascinating in fiction and she never grows tired of writing stories about characters struggling to overcome the worst.

Cathryn also writes ghost stories because who knows what lies beyond our senses—The Haunted Ship Trilogy and the Madison Keith series of novellas.

When she’s not writing, she’s usually reading psychological thrillers, watching crime documentaries, walking on the beach, or playing golf, going way out of her way to avoid hitting her ball in the sand or the water. She lives on the Central California Coast with her husband and her cat, Cleopatra.

You can get in touch with her by email, find her social media links, or sign up for her monthly newsletter at her website, cathryngrant. As a thank you for signing up, you’ll receive a free short story about Alexandra Mallory.