Mirror Me

Hannah Danior is a young woman struggling to build a life after an unspeakable experience in her childhood. Now self-sufficient, she is still tormented by her past... and the demons of her childhood are not finished with her. At any instant and with no warning, she will inexplicably mirror the injuries of someone else. Many of her wounds would kill a normal woman, but just as inexplicably, she heals-- at astonishing speed-- presumably so she can be victimized again. With her face and body disfigured by countless scars, Hannah desires only to be left alone. But fate has other ideas when a pair of detectives catch the similarity between her most recent horrific event-- where her throat is suddenly cut-- and the murder of a neighborhood woman. One demands answers she doesn't have and the other, a man she doesn't recognize, raises instinctive alarms inside Hannah's head. When the unthinkable happens and one of the detectives falls in love with her, the search for the truth about Hannah's past and an unseen killer twists itself from the realm of the incomprehensible into the brutal and unforgiving streets of Chicago...PRAISE FOR MIRROR ME"A serial killer with an unusual connection to one of his surviving victims gives this latest Navarro thriller a cool supernatural twist..." Publisher's WeeklyABOUT THE AUTHORYvonne Navarro lives in southern Arizona, where by day she works on historic Fort Huachuca. She is the author of twenty-two published novels and well over a hundred short stories, and has written about everything from vampires to psychologically disturbed husbands to the end of the world. Her work has won the HWA's Bram Stoker Award plus a number of other writing awards. Visit her at www.yvonnenavarro.com and look her up on Facebook (www.facebook.com/yvonne.navarro.001) to keep up with slices of a crazy life that includes a military spouse, three Great Danes, a people-loving parakeet named BirdZilla, painting, and lots of white zin and ice cream.

From the Publisher

Yvonne Navarro's MIRROR ME is a character driven tale of suspense with a splash of the supernatural. Navarro's tight prose and character development has, as a reader, always kept me rivited to her storytelling. This is the second novel we have published by her, the first being AFTERAGE, and we are proud to bring you MIRROR ME, an original novel of suspense mixed with horror.

From the Inside Flap

Hannah Danior is a young woman struggling to build a life after an unspeakable experience in her childhood. Now self-sufficient, she is nonetheless still tormented by her past... and the cruel demons of her childhood are not finished with her. At any instant and with no warning, she will inexplicably manifest the injuries of someone she's never even met. Enduring everything from mere bruises to mortal blows, many of her wounds would kill a normal woman, but just as inexplicably, she heals-- at astonishing speed-- presumably so she can be victimized again. With her face and body disfigured by countless scars, Hannah desires only to be left alone. But fate has other ideas when a pair of detectives catch the similarity between her most recent horrific event-- where her throat is suddenly cut-- and the murder of a neighborhood woman. One demands answers she doesn't have and the other, a man she doesn't recognize at all, raises instinctive alarms inside Hannah's head. When the unthinkable happens and one of the detectives falls in love with her, the search for the truth about Hannah's past and an unseen killer twists itself from the realm of the supernatural into the unforgiving streets of Chicago...

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The things they did in the dark to the baby were unspeakable. The older one had been watching crime shows on television, and so he knew about things like fingerprints and bits of skin that might be found under fingernails. It was high summer in the poorer part of Cicero, Illinois, hot and green, and beneath the heavy, pre-thunderstorm clouds and the whine of insects buzzing in the humid air, everything around the yard was open the garage, the rickety gardening shed, the side door to the house. They d gone scavenging in secret and picked up things like a couple of sets of dirty gardening gloves, rusty trimming shears, a hand-sized hoe-fork, a partially used roll of duct tape and a flashlight from the garage. Then, while the mother was in back hanging the wash on the line trying to save electricity and keep the ancient dryer from dumping more heat into the small, shabby house they went into the house and took the eighteen-month-old girl from her crib. And when they saw that the mother had left the five-year-old girl to watch over the toddler Well, they took her, too.

About the Author

Yvonne Navarro lives in southern Arizona and has written about everything from Apocalypses to Zombies. Her bio includes nineteen published novels,   such as the award-winning AfterAge and Final Impact, plus movie and   television tie-in novels. She's written non-fiction and nearly a hundred tales of shorter fiction, plus tried her hand at illustrating. One of the anchor authors in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer novels, she won the Bram Stoker Award for one of her Buffy  young adult novels and also wrote the Wicked Willow trilogy. By day, Yvonne works as an Operations Officer for a military contractor at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, and is married to author Weston Ochse. They have two giant Great Danes: Chili Lily Beast and The Goblin Monster Dog.

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