Book Title: Blue Girl on a Night Dream Sea by Ginny Fite
Category: Adult Fiction, 274 pages
Genre: Suspense/Paranormal/Time Travel
Publisher: Black Opal Books
Release date: September, 2019
Tour dates: Dec 2 to Dec 20, 2019
Content Rating: PG-13 + M (There are no explicit sex scenes but an implied threat of rape; there is some rough language)


Book Description:

Sometimes the last person you save is yourself. Elena must take her city back from terrorists. Hana must save her tribe from the wrath of a ruthless king. They’re stronger together. The problem is they’re 4,000 years and 6,000 miles apart. Wounded during a terrorist attack, NYC police commando Elena Labat wakes from her coma aboard a Phoenician boat on the Mediterranean Sea to find a young girl lashed to the mast. The girl is Hana, who has trekked across Bronze Age Lebanon with Danel to prevent a king from destroying her tribe. Elena knows she must save Hana. And Hana must escape the barbarians who abducted her before she can find Danel and go home. Slipping in and out of unconsciousness, Elena teaches Hana everything she can, protecting her from barbarians, a priestess, and a king. But Elena’s family needs her, and she can’t stay in the past. Hana will have to succeed on her own.

Last year I read Ginny Fite's well-written political thriller No End of Bad. I was excited about this new novel of hers that was described as a thriller with time travel elements. I love time travel and I thoroughly enjoyed this novel. Although, I think I should clarify that this book could be better describes as timeslip, rather than time travel, and it has a dual timeline setting of modern New York City and ancient Lebanon (Mesopotamia). It was actually two stories that don't really converge although there is a connection.

I was so impressed at how Fite can write so well the modern thriller with the police procedurals as commando Elena Labat works with her team to stop the terrorists who have invaded the city; and then alternate to the ancient world of Hana who must bravely leave her tribe and venture into the unknown, until she finally comes into the city of Sidon with its exotic marketplace, goddess temple and cruel king. These two settings alternated with each chapter, and throughout my reading I wondered what the connection was.

I enjoyed both stories but because I love historical fiction, I did like Hana's story and its characters better. The time slip part is short and occupies a small part of the story. A reader can see this part of the story as fantasy or as part of Elena's subconscious effort to deal with the devastating effects of the terrorist attacks and her way of healing herself.

Whatever the case, I enjoyed Blue Girl on a Night Dream Sea, and I look forward to reading more from Ginny Fite.

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About the Author:

Ginny Fite is an award-winning journalist who has covered crime, politics, government, healthcare, art and all things human. She has been a spokesperson for a governor and a member of Congress, a few colleges and universities, and a robotics R&D company. She has degrees from Rutgers University and Johns Hopkins University and studied at the School for Women Healers and the Maryland Poetry Therapy Institute. Her three murder mysteries, Cromwell’s Folly, No Good Deed Left Undone, and Lying, Cheating, and Occasionally Murder, are set in the rolling hills of Jefferson County, West Virginia. No End of Bad, a thriller, was released in June 2018. She resides in Harpers Ferry, WV.

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Book Details:

Book Title: No End of Bad by Ginny Fite
Category: Adult Fiction; 280 pages
Genre: Thriller
Publisher: Black Opal Books
Release date: June 2018
Tour dates: Sept 3 to 21, 2018
Content Rating: PG-13 (Contains cursing, violence, non-explicit sex but NO adultery, abortion, etc.)

Book Description:

A DC conspiracy novel of grand proportions...

Washington, DC, housewife Margaret Turnbull's world literally blows up after her husband, FBI agent Clay Turnbull, is falsely arrested and killed by agents working for an international drug cartel.

Unbeknownst to Margaret, her enemy's tentacles reach all the way to the White House and control senior personnel. Their powerful enterprise in jeopardy, the assassins will stop at nothing to cover their tracks. With cutting-edge surveillance--CIA, FBI, and NSA technology--there is nowhere to hide, no one to trust. No one is safe--anywhere.

I love discovering Indie gems and this book is just that. I wasn't taken in by the book cover or the title, but this political thriller is well-written with a layered plot and a cast of what seems to be unrelated characters whose stories come together in the end.

Clay Turnbull is an FBI agent who discovers an international drug operation led by law enforcement agents. Before he gets too far into his investigation, they falsely arrest him and kill him. This puts into motion a series of actions that snowballs into a full attack on anyone who is connected to Turnbull or might know of the operation.

The novel takes place within three days time. Although it's fast paced, the author does not skimp out on developing her characters. Each character is drawn out in how Turnbull's death affects them, starting from his wife and daughter. We know who the main bad guys are, so there's no surprise there, but it's all about how to protect the innocent people who unwillingly get caught up in this political drug-war.

I don't read many political thrillers, but I enjoyed this novel.  The author explores government corruption, greed, justice and the stalwart determination of individuals who seek the truth. One can't help but feel grateful to those men and women who put their lives on the line to bring down corrupt individuals. The last chapters where it all wraps up had me glued to the pages, even bringing tears to my eyes while reading the final paragraphs.

If you like well-written political thrillers with a colorful cast of characters, you won't be disappointed with No End of Bad.


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Meet the Author:

Ginny Fite is the author of the dark mystery/thrillers Cromwell's Folly, No Good Deed Left Undone, and Lying, Cheating, and Occasionally Murder, as well as a funny self-help book on aging, I Should Be Dead by Now, a collection of short stories, What Goes Around, and three books of poetry. She resides in Harpers Ferry, WV.

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Guest Post:

In some ways, writing novels is like spending all day, every day, with your imaginary friends—the way you did when you were a child and poured a cup of imaginary tea for a friend no one could see, or insisted your mother kiss the invisible Emily goodnight or leave a seat for Jim at the dinner table.

Your invisible friends talk to you, stand on their heads to get your attention, and whisper secrets in your ear that are so tantalizing you have to run and tell someone about them. They invite you to try out new games and challenge you to roll down grassy hills. They run by your side when you charge up a mountain, laser gun in hand.

I used to worry that having invisible friends as an adult meant I was just a little bit crazy, hearing voices, imagining scenes with people I’d never met, doing things in my imagination I could never actually do.

Then I started writing novels and stopped worrying. I need these guys. They’re far more intense and daring than I am. Sometimes the dark half of my brain needs to take over and live out its life on the page—a safe place to try out the impossible.

Perhaps these figments of my imagination are shared dreams, or nightmares, that used to be told around a cave fire at night to keep away the real scary things.

Of course, the discipline of writing is more like choosing a lens, focusing in on a subject, adjusting the image until it’s clear, snapping a dozen shots and then developing the one perfect picture. If I can do all that—without my magic smart phone—perhaps I’m not crazy, or only crazy enough to be a novelist.

Maybe all writers are just a little bit crazy, crazy enough to think that the stories that roll around in their heads might intrigue someone else, might give a reader something to hold her breath about, to laugh out loud, or weep over.

Because, if readers find themselves in our books, then we have real companions, flesh and blood friends, who know what we know, who hear what we hear, and feel what we feel.

About the Author:

Ginny Fite is an award-winning journalist who has covered crime, politics, government, healthcare, art and all things human. She's been a spokesperson for a governor and a member of Congress, a few colleges and universities, and a robotics R&D company. She earned degrees from Rutgers University and Johns Hopkins University and studied at the School for Women Healers and the Maryland Poetry Therapy Institute. No Good Deed, published by Black Opal Books in 2015, is her second Sam Lagarde mystery/thriller set in Charles Town, West Virginia.

Connect with the author: Website ~ Twitter ~ Facebook