Awakening
The
Charly Stevens Series Book 1
by
Two Sharpe
Genre:
Cozy Mystery
What
do you do when tragedy comes into your life and takes everything
away? Charly Stevens’ life was turned upside down when a drunk
driver took her beloved husband Kevin from her, making her a widow at
24. Charly has two choices, stay in the dark pit of despair that has
become her life for almost a year, or take a chance and enter the
world of the living and move forward again. Lucky for Charly, she has
some excellent friends who support her, but she will also have to
face the next step in her life when a man from her past reappears and
shows definite interest. Charly gets caught up in a murder
investigation with some unusual help from her rescue dog, Lola. After
Kevin was taken, he finds a way to help Charly realize her place in
the world again with Lola’s help.
Acceptance
The
Charly Stevens Series Book 2
Charly
Stevens has come to accept that it is time to move forward with her
life, so she and Lola are plowing straight ahead… into even more
mystery and intrigue. With the help of her faithful friends Hadley
and EJ, the team takes on a case to find a missing dog and they
inadvertently cross paths with Charly’s new love interest, Riley
Jordan. Riley and his partner, Tank, are investigating a string of
break ins in the surrounding area and find clues that link back to
the murder of Riley’s father, when Riley was young. Working
together to help solve the case is exhilarating for the new couple,
but it also places both of them in harms way. Come along on this next
adventure in the Charly Stevens series: Acceptance.
Acceptance:
Tank walked with me to Riley’s door and she squeezed my shoulder, then went down the hall to the nurse’s station. I stood at that door taking deep breaths trying to pull myself together until, with a shaking hand, I pushed the door open. When I saw the big strong man that had become such a big part of my life lately lying in that bed with tubes hanging out of him and the machines making noise all around him, I sucked in a ragged breath and the tears started falling again.
I saw movement and then Riley lifted his head and turned toward me and as soon as he saw me, that brilliant smile lit up his face. I slowly made my way to his side and when I got there and looked down into his eyes, I started sobbing. His eyes were puffy and his face was pale with multiple small lacerations. Riley lifted his arm, the one without the splint on it and took my hand and pulled it to his lips. His lips were dry and the kiss was weak.
He smiled again and said, “It’s ok Charly, I’m going to be ok, alright?” looking up at me to make sure I believed him.
I just bent down and laid my head on his shoulder as he brought his arm around me holding me to his chest, letting me cry it all out. When I finished, not sure how long it took but I finally was able to pull myself together, I pulled my head up and looked him in the eye.
“You promised not to break my heart, getting yourself killed certainly qualifies as breaking my heart,” I said, but there was no hostility there, something else entirely.
I didn’t realize until right this moment just how much Riley has taken over my heart. I am in love with this man and the realization of that slammed into me like a truck going 100 miles an hour. How have I gone from where I was, to this place so quickly. Then I thought how long it has been and realized it has taken quite a bit of time to get to where I was at that moment, to allow me to feel something for someone again. I am just going to have to accept that to love someone is to live with the chance that you can lose them. If my past taught me anything, it was to show those who you love how much they mean to you each and every day. To take chances when they arrive and never second guess your feelings. Life is short.
I brought my lips down to his and I made sure he understood what he means to me. And then to torture him for almost giving me a heart attack I leaned into his ear.
“It’s too bad you got hurt, I just put clean sheets on my bed, but I guess you have your own clean sheets here,” then I gently bit his earlobe and a moan escaped his lips and when I pulled my head back I saw goosebumps on his arm. I finally let myself smile at him as he returned the smile.
“Sure, hit a guy while he’s down. Trust me, I will get my revenge,” he said as he took my hand to his lips and placed a gentle kiss on it. Now I had goosebumps.
Absolution: Coming soon....
Kevin
It’s been a couple of months since the last terrifying adventure I had to watch Charly go through but as usual, she came through it with the help and love of those around her. I am very proud of the way she has embraced life again, it wasn’t easy on her. For a time, I didn’t know if she was going to make it, but she is flourishing now. With new love in her life and her
animals near her, she is slowly returning to the vivacious woman I fell in love with. I would have said into her old self, but she has become something so much more. She is becoming better and stronger.
Less than 2 years ago, I was brutally ripped out of her life by a drunk driver and now she is rebuilding her life with another man. A man who, ironically, is one of the officers who showed up the night I was taken to let her know what had happened. While I first felt jealousy toward this man, he has proven time and again that he is in love with Charly and there isn’t anything he wouldn’t do for her. Since that is the bare minimum Lola and I would accept for Charly, he hasn’t suffered the wrath of the Frenchie…. yet. He had better keep a smile on her face. While Lola is all cute and cuddly, you mess with Charly and you will see the Bull in Bulldog come out…. with a vengeance. Just ask Victor Michaels.
Lola and I have been working together over these last several months and she has really honed her skills. She has helped return a young boy to his mother and has rescued several other animals that would have certainly perished without her and Charly’s intervention. Charly and Lola somehow found themselves involved in 2 separate murder investigations but continue to come out on top. I can see Charly growing stronger each time the two of them (or 3 or 4 depending on which of her team is along for the ride) rescue a pet. I hope she doesn’t get too complacent, the hard part is in front of them and not behind….
Two
Sharpe Publishing was created as a company to publish some books that
my daughter and I wrote together. This was not something Amanda
nor I had ever even dreamed of, but then life has a way of sending
you down the path that it wants… regardless of where you were
planning on going.
On
September 16, 2015, Amanda’s husband Kevin was on his way home from
work late one night and was waiting for traffic to clear in the left
turn lane about a mile from their home. A drunk driver coming
from behind Kevin, at what was estimated 75 mph in a 45 mph zone,
veered out of the travel lanes and struck Kevin in the rear of his
Dodge Neon with a full-size SUV. Kevin was killed instantly in
the crash.
Several
months after Kevin’s death, Amanda wrote an autobiography of her
life with Kevin called Stolen and
she asked me if I would help edit the book. Once we put the
finishing touches on Stolen, we decided we would cowrite a fictional
series called The Charly Stevens series.
People
deal with the loss of a loved one in many different ways. After
starting the Charly Stevens Series, we came up with another fictional
series called Road Rage The Blog. It is a real time blog written by
Simon, a man who has a great deal of rage, especially when he gets in
a car.
Once
we had an idea for the above projects, we needed a Social Engineer to
handle publishing, website development, cover art, and social media
for our company. We were lucky enough to convince Kris Spoon to
join our team. Kris has a wide range of experience in the world
of publishing and social media and has used those unique skills to
create a platform for not only the works we have created to date, but
for those to come. We hope in the future to be able to help
other authors bring their works to life through our company.
Thank
you for reading about Two Sharpe Publishing!
-Amanda,
Kris, & Scott-
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