Faces of Envy - J. K. Grueber - Paperback

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Reading an obituary shouldn’t be a cataclysmic event . . .

But for Veronica Bryson-Laquette, an investigative reporter, nothing is ever as innocent as it seems. Armed with the morning edition of the Press, she tracks down her elusive husband and nearly talks herself out of investigating the realtor’s death. Even the mundane can become a travesty when one happens to marry a psychic of phenomenal abilities, and it's too late to reverse course from whatever reading that obituary has set into motion.

Carrying their joint creation, Veronica buckles to her sixth sense and sets out to investigate a fatal car crash in one direction while her husband is lured in another. Repeatedly, she sabotages her success, determined to spare her unborn child from the travesties of her former profession—to no avail. Under the guise of an “antique shopping spree,” she navigates a series of tangled coincidences in a small college town and senses her husband influencing her path from afar. Whether the dark visions seep from him, or her unborn child, the images are too lifelike, and she’s seen Jade die once too often.
While miles away . . .

Images from the past twine with wicked visions from the future, leading Jade closer to the darkness as his precognitions expose a threat to the lives of his wife and unborn child. To save them and safeguard them, he accepts the manipulations of his nemesis in the FBI, and under the pretense of assisting in the search for a serial killer dubbed “The Taxidermist,” he’s drawn into a game of cat and mouse with an unknown entity.


What a madman in Cleveland, Ohio, and an eighteen-year-old murder in the Nation’s Capitalshare, however, could bear roots to the atrocities of Nazi Germany . . . and the end of Jade’s life as he knows it.