Nine Minutes

By Beth Flynn

Synopsis

On May 15, 1975, fifteen-year-old Ginny Lemon is abducted from a convenience store in Fort Lauderdale by a member of one of the most notorious and brutal motorcycle gangs in South Florida.

From that moment on, her life is forever changed. She gets a new name, a new identity and a new life in the midst of the gang’s base on the edge of the Florida Everglades—a frightening, rough and violent world much like the swamps themselves, where everyone has an alias and loyalty is tantamount to survival.

And at the center of it all is the gang’s leader, Grizz: massive, ruggedly handsome, terrifying and somehow, when it comes to Ginny, tender. She becomes his obsession and the one true love of his life.

So begins a tale of emotional obsession and manipulation, of a young woman ripped from everything she knows and forced to lean on the one person who provides attention, affection and care: her captor. Precocious and intelligent, but still very much a teenager, Ginny struggles to adapt to her existence, initially fighting and then coming to terms with her captivity.

Will she be rescued? Will she escape? Will she get out alive—or get out at all? Part psychological thriller, part coming-of-age novel, filled with mystery, romance and unexpected turns, Nine Minutes takes readers into the world of one motorcycle gang and inside the heart of a young girl, whose abduction brought about its fall.

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Michel’s Review

Nine Minutes is one of the books that stunned my senses and left me with a major book hangover.  I read this book over a month and half ago.  After I finished the book I had to gift this book to several of my friends because it is the kind of book you “have” to read.  Each and every friend that has read this book had the same kind of reactions that I had to it.

This more than a typical biker romance.  It is a story that renders a very real look into a lawless lifestyle.  Although many of the characters are hardened criminals with ethics that are horrendous, they are also very human.  Their emotions and feelings are just as valid as anyone else emotions.  Their methods of dealing with their emotions are just as valid as how anyone else deals with their own.  We all have insecurities, we all have hopes and dreams, we all want the ones we love to have the best we can give, and we all have our own ways of protecting our deepest emotions.

The background for this story is so true to it’s portrayal.  I grew up in that area of south Florida in that exact timeframe.  I am very close to the same age as the heroine in this story.  The existence of this kind of MC club was in fact present in that area at that time.  As I was reading this book I had chills from the in depth descriptions.  I felt like I was walking back in time to my younger years and looking at it through different eyes.  It is was mind blowing.  When my mother, who has lived in south Florida for over fifty years,  and raised her family there, read this book she was just as stunned as I was.

The story itself was captivating.  It is a story of a lawless life, a story of a stolen life, and a story of unconditional love.  Although Grizz lived in a very violent world and delivered his own kind brand of justice, he also had a sense of honor and heart of gold.  For those he loved, he gave his all.  For those that betrayed his love and trust, he dealt with in a very gruesome violent manner.  In the end he paid for his love.  In the end he paid for his sins.  He did it with honor for those he loved.  He accepted the punishments for the crimes he committed.  He protected his family from suffering the repercussions of his crimes.  He gave those he loved the ultimate gift.  He gave them the gift of love and happiness.

Ginny was a young teenage girl when she was abducted.  She was just beginning her journey into womanhood.  Although she was taken, manipulated, and molded into a different kind of person, she was also given the gift of unconditional love.  Her life may have turned out very differently had she not been abducted.  Would she have had a better life? Most likely not.  Her childhood was not sunshine and roses.  Her life was not full of love.  She was forced to grow up at an early age.  She was forced to become responsible and self reliant.  She was a survivor.  She used her intelligence to guide her.  I think that is one of the reasons she was abducted.  One person saw the uniqueness and inner strength she possessed.  One person saw her value as a human being.  One person loved her for everything she was.  One person valued her enough to steal her away.  In the end that one person almost destroyed her life.  Through it all that one person also gave her more than his love, he gave her a love that would last a lifetime and always be there for her. He gave her a new love story to live.

Nine Minutes is not a forever love story.  Nine Minutes is breathtaking story of unconditional love and strength of the human spirit.  Nine Minutes is two beautiful love stories that intwine one woman into a person of strength, compassion, and beauty.  Two love stories that show her how by just being herself is more valuable than anything else in this world.

Nine Minutes is a powerful story.  Although Nine Minutes ends with a cliffhanger, it is not one that will have readers in an emotional uproar.  Nine Minutes has a resolution to that part of Ginny’s story.  It ended the only way it could.  The cliffhanger is more about the secrets that will be revealed.  It is about the other love story in the book.  It is the path to Ginny’s forever love story.

Read Nine Minutes! It is exceptional!

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OUT OF TIME is the HIGHLY ANTICIPATED sequel to NINE MINUTES where Grizz, Kit and Grunt’s gritty tale continues on July 23rd!

Out of Time

Sequel To Nine Minutes

By Beth Flynn

Release Date: July 23, 2015

Synopsis

RECOMMENDED FOR READERS 18 AND OLDER DUE TO

STRONG LANGUAGE, SEXUAL SITUATIONS AND VIOLENCE

Out of Time is book two in a series. It is not a standalone novel. I highly recommend that you read my first novel, Nine Minutes, to be able to understand the background stories of the main characters. There are many twists and turns in both stories that can best be connected if read consecutively.

Although I do answer all of the outstanding questions from Nine Minutes, there is more to this story, and some readers may consider it a cliffhanger. If you do not like cliffhangers, you may want to wait until the third novel is released in 2016.

They thought with his execution it would all be over.

They were wrong.

The leader of one of South Florida’s most notorious and brutal motorcycle gangs has been put to death by lethal injection. Days later, his family and friends should have been picking up the pieces, moving on. Instead, they’ve been catapulted into a world so twisted and dangerous even the most ruthless among them would be stunned to discover the tangled web of deception, not only on the dangerous streets of South Florida but all the way to the top.

In this gripping follow-up novel to Nine Minutes, Out of Time takes readers from the sun-drenched flatlands of 1950s Central Florida to the vivid tropical heat of Fort Lauderdale to the halls of Florida’s Death Row as we finally learn the gritty backstory of Jason “Grizz” Talbot and the secret he spent his life trying to conceal.

Not even Grizz’s inner circle knows his full story—the tragedy that enveloped his early life, the surprise discovery that made him the government’s most wanted and most feared, and the depths of his love for Ginny, the tenderhearted innocent he’d once abducted and later made his wife.

Once Grizz’s obsession and now the mother of his child, Ginny has spent years grieving the man she’d first resisted and then came to love. Now remarried to Tommy, a former member of the gang, the pair have spent more than a decade trying desperately to live a normal existence far from the violent, crime-ridden world they’d once carved out on the edge of the Florida Everglades. For Tommy, especially, the stakes are high. Desperately in love with Ginny for years, he’s finally living his dream: married to the woman he never thought he could have. But even with the façade of normalcy—thriving careers, two beautiful children, and a genuinely happy and loving marriage—they can’t seem to put the past behind them. Every time they turn around, another secret is revealed, unraveling the very bonds that hold them together.

And with Grizz finally put to death, now Ginny has learned secrets so dark, so evil she’s not even sure she can go on.

Will these secrets tear their love to pieces? And how far will Grizz go to protect what he still considers his, even from beyond the grave?

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Beth Flynn is a fiction writer who lives and works in Sapphire, North Carolina, deep within the southern Blue Ridge Mountains. Raised in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Beth and her husband, Jim, have spent the last 16 years in Sapphire, where they own a construction company. They have been married 30 years and have two daughters (the youngest in high school) and two dogs. In her spare time, Beth enjoys writing, reading, gardening, church and motorcycles, especially taking rides on the back of her husband’s Harley. She is a four-year breast cancer survivor.

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