Song of the Blackbird by DB Michaels Book Spotlight (Part #1)
Title: Song of the Blackbird
Series: Albatross Prison Series #1
Author: DB Michaels
Genre: Contemporary Romance, Medical
Release
Date: June
21, 2016
Publisher:
Dream
Tower Publishing
Print
Length: 331
pages
Format: Digital and Paperback
Digital
ISBN: 978-0-9972798-0-1
Paperback
ISBN: 978-0-9972798-1-8
In this Pride & Prejudice meets
Orange is the New Black contemporary romance tale, Dr. Emma Edwards is
desperate to protect her inmate brother, even if it means taking a job as the
new prison doctor and hiding her identity. Prison Warden Maxim Chambers is a
hard man, a man tormented and toughened by his past, a man who cannot stop
thinking about the beautiful new prison doctor. What is it about her that makes
her so enchanting, and why is she so interested in one of his inmates? When
Emma and Maxim uncover their burning desire for one another, will their secrets
survive the fire? Or will what they’re keeping locked away make them prisoners
in their own hearts? Song of the Blackbird is a dark but optimistic, emotional
tale that proves even within prison walls, love knows no boundary.
Synopsis:
Healing
must start from within…
Desperate to reconnect
with her half-brother, Emma Edwards takes her new medical training and secures
a doctor’s job at the prison where he’s serving a sentence. But what she finds
there is worse than she ever imagined…tough rules and even tougher men, gangs
powered by drug money and corruption. Emma must find a way to keep her brother
alive until he’s freed even if that means lying to the one man she should be
able to trust…
Warden Maxim Chambers
doesn’t believe a woman should be working in a penitentiary, especially one
like Emma – a woman even a hardened man like him can’t get off his mind. He’s
spent too many years building walls around his heart to let himself care about
anyone. Yet when Emma is almost hurt in a prison assault, Maxim can’t deny his
feelings for her. But what is the connection between Emma and the prisoner
named Sam?
And
accept your past.
When secrets are
revealed, danger and death run through the prison. Only the truth can save Emma
and Maxim…if it’s not too late.
Song of the Blackbird
immerses you in a whole new world – a gritty, violent world where things you
have always believed turn out not to be true. It is a compelling story of
sorrow and loss, of hope and second chances, and most of all, of the power of
love.
Julien began rattling off some names.
Thank goodness Sam wasn’t one of them. At least not this time, but had he been
ill before? They’d always been close. Something horrible must have happened to
him. Maybe he’d been beaten up and lay hurt somewhere all these months. But
then Emma remembered the 308-35U. Surely if he was hurt, they wouldn’t have
assigned him to a dorm?
One of the side doors to the conference
room opened and several inmate workers lifting large boxes entered. One carried
two huge boxes. His face was partially obscured but when he turned, her heart
almost stopped. That uplifted nose, the frizzy hair, the lanky build. She
squeezed her eyes shut and snapped them open again, sure her mind was playing
tricks on her. But no. There he was. He turned and suddenly caught her eye. His
whole body stiffened. That was it, a momentary tenseness. Nothing else. No
smile, no spark of recognition. He put the boxes on the cart and followed the
group of inmates out the door.
“Excuse me.” Emma hastily stood. “Sorry.
I’ll be right back.”
She rushed to the door, registering
Chambers’s and Kaye’s identical expressions of disapproval. But what did it
matter? She’d seen Sam. Her darling, beloved Sam. She flung the door open.
Where the heck were they? They couldn’t have gone far. She darted down the
corridor, turned left, and caught a glimpse of blue going around the next
corner. She ran after them. There they were, exiting the building farther down
the hall.
Emma rushed outside. The four inmate
workers stood in a single line near the locked gate she’d entered with Julien
awhile back. Their supervisor opened the gate with his set of keys. They were
at least fifty yards away but Emma had no problem identifying Sam. His gait was
the same. The usual swing to the arms and the mild dragging of his left foot.
Courtesy of his cursed father who’d started this nightmare. Sam never turned
around as the group disappeared from sight. Either he was mad at her or maybe
he’d lost his memory? Had he had a concussion from some head trauma? He had to
know her. There must be a reason for him to ignore her like that.
Suddenly, a blackbird’s call rang in the
air. On-ke-kaaangh. On-ke-kaaangh. Then a short pause and another.
On-ke-kaaangh. On-ke-kaaangh. Sam’s voice definitely.
Emma’s heart soared. She put her hand to
her mouth and prayed she still remembered. “On-ke-kaaangh. On-ke-kaaangh.”
It didn’t come out as polished as when
they’d practiced it long ago camping in the woods but it was enough. Dear God,
it was enough. Tears rushed behind her eyes as the familiar birdcall echoed
back to her. She swallowed several times and wiped the wetness from her cheeks.
She’d found her brother at last.
About
DB Michaels:
DB Michaels is a life-long reader who fell
in love with the field of medicine during college. Double boarded in internal
medicine and emergency medicine, she enjoys using her skills to help those in
need. Working as a doctor in the prison system inspired her to write Song of
the Blackbird, the first installment in her Albatross Prison Series. Though
the book is entirely fictional, it illustrates the power of love, hope, and
second chances.
DB’s first passion has always been books and she is happiest
when she is absorbed in a great novel or writing. When she has time off, she
likes to watch old movies, dally in the sun, and spend time with her family.
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