Frost eBook Phaedra Weldon
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This is not a children's story.
Detective Jack Frost has everything he ever wanted; a good job, a fiancé who loves him, and his first child on the way. His future looks bright and promising.
When an unprecedented heat wave turns December into the hottest month on record, a victim with Jack's face propels him into the reality of myth and legend as the body count rises.
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He wore my face.
How often had I shown that face indifference as I shaved it? Washed it. And on occasion cursed it. I'd seen it green when sick, red when sunburned, and painted for Halloween.
But I'd never seen it dead.
"Jack, you okay?"
Detective Gawain Crow, my partner on the Fulton County Police Force as well as my best friend, put a hand on my shoulder. He presented a pretty daunting figure with his tanned skin, long dark ponytail and black Stetson cowboy hat. Two thirds Cherokee and one third smart ass, he often overshadowed my more diminutive size. I clocked in at about five foot nine barefoot and never bothered to aid what he called my height-challenged handicap with heeled boots. I was comfy in sneakers—the more worn the better.
I knelt beside the body. He was tucked between the front end of one car and the bumper of another. A couple of the uniformed officers had been dispatched to go house to house to find the owner of the cars so they could be moved, and to discover if anyone heard or saw anything. The whole scene was pretty melancholy in the early morning darkness as Christmas lights winked on and off in the yards and on the houses in the surrounding neighborhood.
Yeah…Happy Holidays and good will toward men.
The only thing visible from the road were his legs. Apparently his killer took his shoes.
It was early morning of December 21st, 1121 am. Sweat rolled down my forehead and into my eyes, which I rubbed with the bottom of my tee-shirt. The temperature hovered around 83º with little creditable explanation. Of course there were the reports of Global Warming, Glacial Melt and the inevitable Doomsday shows . Either way, it was damn fucking hot. And in December. I don't care how far south you go in the states, the temperature should be in the low to mid 40s.
None of this was right.
With the aggravating heat came the predictable aggravating increase in crime. Not just robbery, breaking and entering, or car jacking—but flashing. Too many streakers up and down Peachtree street, thinking just because it was hot, everyone needed to see their instrument of torture.
Yet these perverted megalomaniacal pinheads weren't far from the truth of how the weather had changed the local fashion. Everyone at the crime scene was dressed for comfort. The officers usually in uniform had adopted a new look black precinct logo tee-shirts and shorts. Even I'd forgone my usual shirt, blazer and jeans for black cargo shorts and a Rudolph tee-shirt.
It was a present from my fiancé. I did not buy it.
"Better not get squeamish at this—or you're not going to make it through that baby's birth. It gets messy." Doctor Elizabeth Noel, Chief Medical Examiner, pushed a thermometer into a jagged wound on the body's right side. "Core temp—wow—your double's a cold one, Jack." She frowned. "This isn't possible."
"What is it?" Crow knelt beside me. I think he felt he needed to stick close to me. I mean, we were looking at one hell of a convincing body double.
Noel tapped the thermometer's plastic display. "The core temp is lower than the surface temp. Inside he's reading twenty-two degrees. But his surface temp," she pointed to the temp-strip she'd placed over his skin, "says he's 95º. If I go by core I'd say he's been dead for a long time. But the surface says he's only been dead a few hours."
Frost eBook Phaedra Weldon
Despite being the heir of a magical being, the main character is far more human than most romantic heroes. He's not emotionally stunted and/or physically invulnerable; when he gets into fights, he is injured just like a real person would be (yes, even very good fighters are injured when they get into fights and when people shoot them). In that sense, it's more realistic than a lot of romances even though it's a fantasy novelette.The missing final star is for editing and polish. There were occasional breaks in grammar and wording, and some sections seemed rushed; The plot line involved several different bad guys, not all of whom we actually saw and not all of whom had anything to do with each other. In that sense it was, again, more like real life - but in one break from reality, the main character never stops to wonder why he has three different people gunning for him at once, and despite himself and his twin brother both dating doctors at the same hospital, they were apparently unaware of each other until the twin's murder at their psychotic semi-adoptive mother's hands. Another break was that the main character turned out relatively normal despite a being isolated by a deranged single mother for most of his life.
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Frost eBook Phaedra Weldon Reviews
got bored and quit - too slow and dull
A heat wave at Christmas and a dead body bring a new telling to the story of Jack Frost. Keep some tissues handy for the bittersweet ending.
at times and very engaging. The story of Jackson Frost and the strange occurrence of a murder victim that looks like exactly like him is a fun read.
Excellent short story which will tear at your emotions. Great read. The only disappointment is that it brings up a plot thread about an elf threat that is left open.
I cried at the end because I could not believe it would end like it did. The expectation was not this ending. Even though I'm kind of in shock I loved this book. You won't regret reading Jack Frost
Well written mystery, scfi, romance. Jack Frost character was easy to get to know and then be totally surprised by. This was an easy book to read in one afternoon sitting because you have to know what happens.
Whatever you think you know about Jack Frost, think again! This story brings the myth to life in today's society. The story begins with Jack Frost, a detective who gets harassed about his name all the time. He and his partner find a body that looks exactly like him. He was supposedly adopted and his mother has never told him anything about his natural family, including the fact that he had an identical twin. There are some weird circumstances surrounding the body and it's current state. Even though the heat is sweltering, the body is cold inside. Finding the body starts a chain of strange events until the end where Jack must choose between those he loves, and saving the world.
Despite being the heir of a magical being, the main character is far more human than most romantic heroes. He's not emotionally stunted and/or physically invulnerable; when he gets into fights, he is injured just like a real person would be (yes, even very good fighters are injured when they get into fights and when people shoot them). In that sense, it's more realistic than a lot of romances even though it's a fantasy novelette.
The missing final star is for editing and polish. There were occasional breaks in grammar and wording, and some sections seemed rushed; The plot line involved several different bad guys, not all of whom we actually saw and not all of whom had anything to do with each other. In that sense it was, again, more like real life - but in one break from reality, the main character never stops to wonder why he has three different people gunning for him at once, and despite himself and his twin brother both dating doctors at the same hospital, they were apparently unaware of each other until the twin's murder at their psychotic semi-adoptive mother's hands. Another break was that the main character turned out relatively normal despite a being isolated by a deranged single mother for most of his life.
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