Repeaters

by Erica Ferencik

Overview

Repeaters are everywhere. Their bodies bear the marks of their death: a gunshot scar, a rope burn at the neck, the slash of a knife. They are the murdered among us; slipping out of one life and instantly forced into another, and another. Nothing will free them from this endless cycle of return, except to love another human being. Of all Repeaters, one has come back more than any of the others. Ruthless, charismatic Dr. Astra Nathanson seems to have everything - a brilliant career as a psychiatrist, wealth and great beauty. But her inability to love has doomed her to an endless half-life as a Repeater. Until now. This time, she will do anything to have the love she needs for a final demise, even if she has to betray her own flesh and blood to claim it. "A frighteningly good read - it's Mommy Dearest with scales. Count your blessings that evil Astra is not your mother. Ferencik is an exciting new voice in horror." - Betsy Fitzgerald, author of October Run

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780981574110
Publisher:	Waking Dream Press
Publication date:	09/17/2011
Pages:	382
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.85(d)

What People are Saying About This

Betsy Fitzgerald

An exciting new voice in horror.
—Betsy Fitzgerald (author of October Run)

Alan Caruba

Mary Shelley gave us Frankenstein and Erica Ferencik gives us Dr. Astra Nathanson in Repeaters...This is one scary story that readers who like their thrills bloody will love.
—Alan Caruba (Bookviews)

Robert Tremblay

Repeaters is terrifying new novel that takes you to the darkest netherworlds of the human heart. Not a book to begin at night if you need to sleep before dawn.
—Robert Tremblay (Gatehouse Media)

Mary E. Mitchell

Repeaters is the story of black and murderous love, a cautionary tale that, in the hands of the gifted Erica Ferencik is often terrifying and truly unforgettable. You'll be riveted by this bold and brilliant novel.
—Mary E. Mitchell (Love in Complete Sentences)

James Cox

Repeaters is an original and much recommended novel, not to be missed.
—James Cox (Midwest Book Review)

Jeffrey Thomas

A riveting supernatural thriller filled with reincarnation, romance, and the vilest villainess this reader has ever encountered. Truly, a chilling page-turner!
—Jeffrey Thomas (author of Deadstock)

Margot Huysen

Astra is one of the most monstrous villains ever written.
—Margot Huysen (Blogcritics)

Chris Mooney

A chilling, suspenseful, erotic read.
—Chris Mooney (author of Remembering Sarah)

William Walsh

A wild read —sexy, scary and smart...a one-of-a-kind take on reincarnation.
—William Walsh (author of Questionstruck)

Editorial Reviews

The petrifying tale of a chain of reincarnations that can only be broken by finding true love. Kim is a blind college student who's in a relationship with her biology teacher. When they get engaged, he urges Kim to contact her estranged mother, Astra, a psychiatrist who didn't come back after leaving Kim at a school for the blind when she was 6 years old. For Astra, having a child was a failed attempt to feel love--the only way for a Repeater to conclude his or her string of lives. Finding herself incapable of the emotion, Astra abandoned Kim; but over a decade later, Astra finds the motivation to monstrously destroy her life as part of their grisly mother–daughter rivalry. The destruction bleeds into 16-year-old Lucy's life as well; she's a new patient who's been having blackouts and flashbacks from another life. Lucy doesn't yet understand that she, too, is a Repeater. With prose so poetic, it's easy to forget this is a horror story: One evil action collides with the next as a cursed Repeater ruthlessly seeks the true love she hasn't yet found in the hundreds of lives she remembers--love that would finally end her streak of reincarnations. More than a battle of good and evil, Ferencik's (Cracks in the Foundation, 2008) story is rich with layers, well-developed characters, and moments of gruesomeness and tenderness. The loveless malice contrasts sharply with characters--some Repeaters, some not--who feel love so deeply that they seem to glow from it on the page. The gripping pursuit and protection of the love of a lifetime.

Kirkus Reviews