Fool Her Once

Can you ever delete your past? What happens when it comes roaring back, and you must decide which way to turn? As an investigative reporter, Jenna Sinclair finds herself living in fear as a serial killer story written over 20 years ago comes back smacking her in the face. As you enter her world and meet Rosie Miller and her son Denny, you will understand why this story turned tragic in many ways. Married to Zack King but in love with Ryan Sinclair, the conflicting romances come front and center as we meet her with both in the present and learn how she wound up with Zack in the past. Denny’ s mother sold her house and moved to Arizona. Dollie is Jenna’s daughter and in trouble for smoking pot and involved in causing a barn fire. She and her friends were trespassing and malicious destruction of property. No charges for smoking pot it is legal in Maine. Added in there is Jenna’s relationship with Ryan McAllister and having a one night with him why would someone attack him after that.

The story spirals in many directions as Jenna must deal with both Ryan and Zack plus when Ryan is seriously injured, his wife is not too glad to see her at the hospital or the crime scene. Lies are told by everyone but Jenna is the prime suspect in what happened to Ryan why? With her husband cheating on her with someone named Bethany, and their daughter getting close to her, we also learn that Zack loses or lost his temper a lot and at times she wound up bruised. Why not report it? The author flashes back to where it all began, when Jenna meets Zack and learns about Evil Ed and Rosie Miller, who could not resist this serial rapist. Married later to Norm Miller, taking Denny under his wing, you begin to realize that this child was not normal and the article that Jenna writes about his father would alter his life forever. Rosie Miller was stuck on this sick man, and she reported it for the Sun changing the dynamics of her life and much more. Why did she want to find out what happened to her years later?

Their first interaction is related and then you get a feeling from the start that Zack had orchestrated the meeting, wanted Jenna in his life but why? Wanting to go back and meet Rosie and get to know more about Deny, we learn that he was not an evil kid yet in the flashbacks we learn of things that he and his friends did to a poor goldfish that belong to his stepsister. Finding Rosie, the interaction is far from pleasant, land she demands that Jenna leave. Losing her son, her husband and of course Evil Ed, she did not want it to stigmatize her son, but it did. The barn burning was up in the air, the situation required more than just a slap on the write. Bethany worked in the kitchen in Zack’s inn and Jenna was away on a work assignment. Where was Bethany? How did Jenna find her cell phone and how did she manage to get into her room? She disappeared on a Sunday three weeks after Jenna’s expose on the Hamptons restaurant that had appeared on the newsstands and online. Her bio appeared at the end of the article. Jenna’s address was there that she and Zak owned the Kings Inn and Marina on Long Island. The past reveals more about her life with Zack but the phot of Dollie lay face down and she wondered where this came from and about Evil Ed Haynes at the time of his trial they were stamped with the dates, the way a librarians stamped and filed clippings of the stories. Jailhouse interviews and Evil Ed claimed the girls who testified asked  told him  where they were staying and that the one girl wanted him to come to her room the names of the victim in the story were circled but wait until she you see these leads back. Accidents happen and sometime someone manages to orchestrate the events that will benefit her life. Zack King was smart, and someone would pay for his actions but why and how? He was excited about his rich grandfather and his  grandfather was excited about him. Denny Dennison who was he really? Who was or is Zack King? Relationships are not what they seem, and people are not what or who they are receiving  an email from her boos at My World she is going to handle a story. But letters from the past she learns more about the life of her husband, the drowning of kittens, and then a harsh revelation that will shock readers. The property of Denny Edison: Please contact me at the above number and belonging to  Lieutenant Manfred Green what did he have?

Then Jenna learns someone about the accident that happened five years earlier in 1999, then who was dead? Who was dead five years before Dollie was born Who took the picture of her? Dealing with Teddi, Ryan’s wife and telling her to stay away from Ryan and I a story but you need to ask your husband about that night and Ryan is sorry he got involved in her marriage. But the startling revelation will shock you and when Jenna learns the truth about Denny you won’t believe it. Added in we learn more about Zack and her finances, the money she never knew existed and we meet Jonathan Vickery and FBI agent she called and that is how we learn about the death of Bethany. Lies, deceptions, betrayals, deceits and the best cover up that almost worked. Who is dead? Who drowned? What happens when Jenna faces off with a multiple killer? You won’t believe the revelation but how will she deal with it when the killer comes for her? Leave it to DNA to reveal the truth. How will she face Dollie, and will she learn the harsh realities? Jenna Sinclair: FOOL HER ONCE: NEVER TWICE! Who killed Bethany, Adele who is Denny’s stepsister and who tried to kill Ryan? Author Joanna Elm weaves a tale that you won’t believe as Jenna Sinclair will have to decide whether a truth should stay buried. Where she will go next as the author takes us from New York to North Fork long Island and to the murder waters surroundings it when she learns the harsh relatives that would change the dynamics of  her life forever.

Fran Lewis : Just reviews