Wednesday, 9 March 2016
Revenge: Sweet as Cain by D.A. Kelley
Release Date: 8th December 2015
Publisher: Got'cha Covered Publishing
Publisher: Got'cha Covered Publishing
Genres: Urban Christian
Available on Amazon
Bitterness=Revenge
Dr. Elissa Johnson has an aching bitterness in her
heart that only revenge can soothe. Adopted at birth, at an early age it was no
secret the people she called parents, had no real love for her, or any love for
that matter. Although they proclaim to be Christians, the treatment she endures
at their hands would suggest otherwise.
Elissa sets out to find her biological parents by
hiring a private investigator. The information given to Elissa is more than she
bargains for. Her new found view of life fuels her need for revenge while the
flame of hatred grows. Elissa’s plan for vengeance is in motion with everything
falling into place, until she reaches the final stage and an unsuspected twists
is revealed.
Author
Bio
Denise Ann Kelley (pen name D. A. Kelley) is a
freelance writer whose love for writing and reading began at a young age. She
has written short stories, poems and Christian plays. Denise’s work has
appeared in The Motherhood Diaries 2 by bestselling author, ReShonda Tate
Billingsley. Kelley’s debut novel released in October 2014 entitled 70:7: The
Road to Forgiveness. She has been selected as contributing author in the
anthology, Bruised but Not Broken. Her articles have appeared in The Focus, a
local magazine in her community and she has been a guest on several talk radio
shows. She is a member of the National Writing Month writing club.
Denise is a lover of education and knowledge. She
received her Diploma in Business Technology and Office Administration, AAS in
Paralegal, and certification in Pharmacy Technician. She is licensed as a
Certified Medical Coder and Life, Health and Annuities seller in Virginia,
where she currently works as a Quality Performance Auditor II for Blue Cross
and Blue Shield.
Denise believes in being an asset to her local
church organization performing various administrative duties. She writes Urban
Christian Fiction, which brings to life her writing whether poetry, novels or
plays. Denise’s Christian plays have been performed in various locations in her
local community. She currently resides in Roanoke, VA.
Website: dakelley.wordpress.com
Email: daknovelist@gmail.com
Facebook Fan Page: Author D. A. Kelley
Twitter: @mzdakelley
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Excerpt: Chapter
Two
Clifford and Bernice Johnson had long since moved
out of New York and relocated to Georgia, and when they left, Elissa couldn’t
have been happier. Bernice attempted to keep in touch, but Elissa didn’t want
to be bothered. Although the Johnsons had no qualms about telling her she was
adopted, they never revealed to her who her biological parents were, either.
She was sure they knew, and she pondered why they kept that information from
her. What was the big deal, she often wondered. It would have made her search a
little easier had they just told her who her parents were, but that didn’t stop
her quest. She just had to find other means to get the information. She would
come up with something.
She tried her hand at adoption agencies, but it
always led to a dead end. It was thirty years ago; the record keeping wasn’t as
advanced and accurate as it was today. Elissa was still determined. She figured
that since she was smart—she was a doctor, after all—she would figure something
out. She considered hiring a private detective, but then thought better of it.
If she hit a dead end, she assumed they would too, and that’s when it hit her.
The idea was obvious and simple. It was one of those, “In plain sight” type of
deals. She would just go back to her old neighborhood and ask questions.
Elissa sat in her brown leather chair in her
office at the hospital, composing a list of questions she would ask her former
neighbors when she went to visit her old neighborhood. She hadn’t been back in
years. She didn’t even know who still lived there, but she was going to soon
find out. While writing the list of questions, so she wouldn’t leave anything
out, she paused and stared at the notepad she was writing on and the pen that
was in her hand. Something as simple as the act of writing triggered a
flashback; she recalled the time she got caught chewing gum in church. Clifford
spanked her with a wooden paddle, which had her name carved into it and the
phantom verse, “Spare the rod, and spoil the child.” Elissa always remembered
thinking about how with all of the preaching he did and how much he read the
Bible, he still didn’t know that verse was not in the Bible.
The paddle resembled a poor man’s version of the
Cat O’ Nine Tails. It was a whip the Roman soldiers used for punishment, and it
was also used to whip Jesus. The nine strips of twelve-inch thick leather he
had didn’t have the pieces of metal tied to the ends like a real Cat O’ Nine
Tails. What he did, though, was tie thick knots at the end of each leather
strip and stapled them to the paddle. Clifford made the punishment tool from
his old leather belts that he no longer wore. She recalled that day as one in
which the beating made it difficult for her to sit down for a week. He also
made her write three thousand times, “I will not chew gum in church.” She
angrily threw the pen on her desk, crumbled up the piece of paper, and she
typed her questions onto the Notepad app on her cell phone instead. She hated
that incidents from her childhood constantly popped up in her head and had such
an effect on her.
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