Lightning Strikes

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SKUNKS AND BATS AND NARCOLEPTIC CATS, OH MY!
As if being struck by lightning wasn’t bad enough. I spent a month in a coma. Of course that was when I was a teenager. It left me with some pretty unusual abilities. For instance, I can find just about anything or anyone. Oh, and I can see ghosts, too!
I pick up extra cash working with the local P.D. I’m their go-to girl when they have someone they need to find. Despite all of this, my life is pretty boring — that is until the very hot Detective Nick Cavanaugh came into my life. Boy did we get off on the wrong foot. I was asked to pair up with Detective Cavanaugh to look for three missing children. Did I mention that he doesn’t believe in my superpowers?
When we discover the children have been kidnapped, the search takes us up into the mountains and old mining towns. With time running out and my abilities going wonky, Cavanaugh is ready to drop me from the case. Pffft! As if that will stop me!
—Andromeda Spencer
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Annual Writer's Digest Self-Published eBook Awards
Lightning Strikes is a cosy mystery about a woman, Andromeda Spencer, who was struck by lightning when she was younger, which imbued her with psychic powers. Now grown, she helps her parents out at their occult shop and occasionally assists the local police with missing persons cases and kidnappings. When she is tasked with finding three abducted children, her powers open up a mystery much bigger than the police had thought. And she has a love interest in the form of a handsome, arrogant cop, Detective Cavanaugh. The book is well-designed and easy to read on a variety of devices, and the cover is well-designed and stands out as a good one for the genre. Andromeda herself is a spunky, interesting character, whose voice is very original, if occasionally overly breezy. The reader does not get a real sense of her emotional motivations, for example, even though she is attracted to the arrogant Detective Cavanaugh when she first meets him, the reader does not get a sense of what her romantic background as context for the attraction. Overall, however, it is a lively and well-paced book and a very enjoyable read. The cast of secondary characters is suitably wacky and quirky but well-meaning. ~ Judge, 2nd Annual Writer's Digest Self-Published eBook Awards 



READERS' FAVORITE
Lightning Strikes (An Andromeda Spencer Novel, book 1) by Theresa Parker is a paranormal mystery story. Andromeda Spencer was struck by lightning when she was 15 and was in a coma for a month. Not long afterwards, she discovered that she had a few special abilities that she didn't have before, like knowing where to find things and people, and she can see ghosts. Captain Johnson hires her to help the police out on occasion with missing person cases and the latest case involves children. Detective Nick Cavanagh is partnered with her and he doesn't believe that Rommy, as she is known, has any special abilities. With failure not an option, Nick Cavanagh is nearing the end of his tether as the case seems to be going nowhere and is about to drop Rommy from the case. Will that stop her? Join Andromeda and her narcoleptic cat as she battles bats, skunks, and Nick Cavanagh in a race against time to find the kids before it is too late.
Lightning Strikes (An Andromeda Spencer Novel, book 1) by Theresa Parker was a fantastic read. Right from page one, the action drew me in and it was action all the way. This is a funny story with some great bantering between characters and the plot was nothing short of ingenious. The characters were a real mixed bag; a woman who sees ghosts, her sister who runs a Gothic nightclub, zany parents, and Nana with dementia (you just don't know what she's going to do next!). Not to mention the hottest detective ever! This is one of those stories that I just couldn't put down, didn't want to put down if truth be told, and the only disappointment was the fact that it ended. Definitely looking forward to book 2 and, for a debut author, this is a fabulous start. ~ Reviewed by Anne-Marie Reynolds for Readers' Favorite
From the Author
Lightning Strikes is Book One in the Andromeda Spencer series.  Look for book two coming soon!