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Ashley Bell
Bibi Blair is a fierce, funny, dauntless young woman – whose doctor says she has one year to live.She replies, “We’ll see.”
Her sudden recovery is a medical miracle.Suddenly a tingling filled the hand, the arm, not that vibratile numbness that followed a sharp blow to the elbow, but a crawling sensation, as if ants were swarming through flesh and bone. As she rolled her chair away from the desk and got to her feet, the tingling spread through the entire left side of her body, from scalp to foot.
An enigmatic woman convinces Bibi that she escaped death so that she can save someone else. Someone named Ashley Bell.Bibi needed more than a mere promise. At twenty-two, she had big dreams, though she didn’t call them dreams, because dreams were wish-upon-a-star fantasies that rarely came true. Consequently, she called them expectations. She had great expectations, and she could see the means by which she would surely fulfill them.
But who is Ashley Bell? And what exactly does she need saving from?When Calida pulled the drawstring on the small flannel bag and spilled the familiar lettered tiles onto the dinette table, she said, “My mother devised and perfected the occult art of Scrabblemancy.”
Bibi almost laughed, but then she remembered the brutal murder and dismemberment that could be researched online.
Bibi’s obsession with finding Ashley sends her on the run from threats both mystical and worldly, including a rich and charismatic cult leader with terrifying ambitions.
A powerful man wants Bibi dead. He’s tapped the phones of her loved ones, sent assassins to wait for her in all of the places she might be expected to go, and threatened to kill anyone she reaches out to. On top of this, he’s the one holding Ashley Bell captive, and he makes it very clear that her days, too, are numbered.In movies, the silence-tortured character asked, Is someone there? Who’s there? Hello? What do you want? The answer to that last question would always be a variation of Terezin’s response when Bibi, on the phone, had inquired of him what he wanted from her: Only to kill you. Therefore, silence should be met with silence – and with well-considered action.
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