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    When the Shivers Run Down Your Spine: Family Crime Mystery Book 1
    When the Shivers Run Down Your Spine: Family Crime Mystery Book 1
    When the Shivers Run Down Your Spine: Family Crime Mystery Book 1
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    When the Shivers Run Down Your Spine: Family Crime Mystery Book 1

    By Ronda West

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    Kate Plain is just that- plain. She blends into her surroundings and observes. Painfully shy and unaware of any of her potential charms, she just goes to work every day, does her time there, quietly and efficiently and then comes home.  At night she puts on fuzzy pajamas, gets a warm cup of coco and then writes lurid stories that are published under an alias. Even the picture on the cover of these books are not of her- they are pictures of her sister Elyse.

    A high-powered publisher is interested in signing Kate to an exclusive deal that will allow her to write full time but first he wants to meet her. In person. The problem is that he is expecting to see the energetic, sexy and completely uninhibited Elyse and not the shy mouse, Kate. The bigger problem Kate quickly realizes is that her sister is nowhere to be found (as usual) so she will have to take on her look and try to hide the fact that she is so shy and retiring.

    The publisher, Colton Pidcock is tall, domineering and kind of frightening to poor Kate but there is something else about him, something familiar but something alarming as well. She finds herself shivering nearly every time he is near her and she kind of likes it.

    As they start getting to know one another, certain things peak Kate’s curiosity and she starts digging into the publisher and his mysterious life history. A frantic phone call from her sister’s roommate and a few strange phrases from the man himself makes her wonder what Colton Pidcock is really up to and what it might mean for her future and her life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGuava Books
    Release dateMar 13, 2017
    ISBN9781386560258
    When the Shivers Run Down Your Spine: Family Crime Mystery Book 1

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      When the Shivers Run Down Your Spine - Ronda West

      Chapter One: Plain, Kate, Period

      You could probably walk past her twenty times and never even notice her. This fact is painfully obvious to Kate. How painfully? The other day someone stepped on her foot- twice and didn’t even break stride. They didn’t even acknowledge the speed bump that was in all actuality a woman’s foot. It did not dawn on Kate that she might point out the fact that she was sitting there or that she did not enjoy being trod upon. She merely smiled to no one in particular and then went back to her boring work, just another boring day in her boring life.

      Poor Kate Plain was the stereotypical cubicle mouse in every way. Her work was boring – and she was quite convinced that if she simply stopped doing it that it would be days or even weeks before anyone noticed. She herself was boring, at least on the surface. Brown hair pulled back in a low-slung ponytail that was always threatening to pull loose, but not in that sexy, released way. No. Her hair would pull loose and then slip to hang limply around her face.

      Brown glasses sat perched on a nicely shaped nose. From behind them intelligent brown eyes peered out. She had a habit of crinkling her nose when she was speaking to people which tended to make her look like she was either sneering or smelling something quite terrible all of the time. Her lips were nice but she licked them nervously so much that they were chapped nearly all of the time.  She was not unattractive, per se, just not attractive. There was nothing noteworthy about her and she liked that just fine. You see, Kate Plain does everything that she can to blend in to her surroundings no matter where she is because she is painfully shy and socially awkward. Even talking to her boss, a woman she has known for 7 years makes her break out into cold sweats. Kate was once asked to give a presentation at work in front of 3 people- she managed to speak for two minutes before she threw up on the desk and then fainted, hitting her head and dumping two water pitchers  in the process. She was never asked to do that again.

      Very few of the people that she worked with knew her very well. The man who sat in the cubicle directly facing her only knew the very top of her head. Andy, the loudly dressed intern that delivered their paychecks every other Friday had to be reminded who Kate was every single time. He would give her a half-hearted smile and say oh there you are each time and two weeks later the whole skit would be played again.

      But, what they didn’t know about Kate might have made them stand up and take notice. Especially that awful Tom from accounting with his leering comments to nearly every woman in the office and his little pin-up girl calendar on his office wall. He would certainly be shocked if he knew the secret that Kate, Plain Kate with her brown glasses and her brown coffee mug (a gag gift from her Secret Santa) and her boring job was keeping from everyone.

      Every night Kate would finish up her job, down to the last detail. She would tidy her desk which held not a single personal item except for that ugly brown coffee cup. She would calmly push back her chair and she would get into her efficient, dependable, immaculately kept car and she would drive to her tidy, apartment. And once she was there she would slip into fluffy, oversized pajamas and make a cup of dairy free hot cocoa. She

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