The Flame Manipulator
The Flame Manipulator
The Flame Manipulator
The Flame Manipulator
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The Flame Manipulator is a story that is told from more than one point of view. The villain of the series is a man by the name of Frederick Kingston. The main characters are Cassie and Brady Wilson, and Conrad Howard. Cassie is finishing her last year of college, and her brother Brady and his partner Conrad are Detectives with the Mt. Claire Police Department. The tale intertwines the lives of other colorful characters from Cassie’s hometown of Benton. This adventure takes these individuals on a quest between three main towns of Benton, Mt Claire and Pinecrest.
The Flame Manipulator starts the story with Cassie making a surprise trip home on college break and after an uplifting welcome from her golden retriever, she finds out her brother who is a detective, is missing. With the help of her brother’s partner, Conrad, she revisits her childhood home and realizes nothing was as it appeared. Cassie must unravel the identity of a maniac who likes to play a life and death game with unsuspecting victims using his favorite weapon of explosives. In doing so, she unwittingly puts not only herself, but her brother and an old classmate’s lives in danger. The trip will change her future forever if she can just survive the night. This story includes many surprises along the way. If you are enraptured by these characters as they come to life in this first book, you will want to read the rest of the tale in the final two books of the series, The Flame Impersonator, and The Flame Annihilator.
The Flame Manipulator
The Flame Impersonator is the second book in The Flame Manipulator series. This book continues the story of Cassie and Brady Wilson, and Brady’s detective partner, Conrad Howard. This book starts six months after the ending of the first book. The dangerous maniac, Frederick Kingston, who threatened Cassie’s life, has decided her continued existence is now his personal challenge.
This tale starts with little Tony who was introduced in the first book. Tony saves a kitten that he finds in the remains from Frederick’s first fire, which he names, Potter. In reading this story, readers will learn more about his young life and circumstances. Cassie has now finished the first semester of her final year at college and is excited to visit her brother during Christmas break. However, there are threats hiding in the shadows that she is unaware of. The adventure continues to be told from more than one point of view, and includes the other colorful characters still involved in Cassie’s life. With many surprises in the story line you never know who will be the next character to have their life endangered. With snow falling in the cold winter air, the flames will burn bright. This book answers a few questions left from the first book, and includes an unexpected ending.​ The more you get drawn into the lives of these people from a small community you will want to see how the journey concludes. The quest will return to end where it started, in the town of Benton, in the final book of the series, The Flame Annihilator.
The Flame Impersonator
The Flame Annihilator is the final book in the Flame Manipulator trilogy. This tale reunites the main characters with Lisa Mayes, who was introduced in the first book. Her life was previously derailed by the villain, Frederick Kingston, when she was in high school. As Lisa tries to get her life back on track, the story returns to Benton where the tale began. All of the colorful characters that the readers have grown to love return, along with their beloved pets, Button and Potter. Their individual lives have intertwined, and they have grown close as a group of family and friends. Frederick Kingston has been a dangerous adversary. In this final book, his hold on reality begins to totally unravel. He is now driven to start a killing spree using his explosives. Every person who has had any contact with him, are now endangered as his next target. There are many twists and surprises as secrets from the past are unveiled. The final question is: can this close-knit community bind together and destroy this dangerous maniac?
The Flame Annihilator
This is a quick paced, easy to read, suspense story told by the main character, Andrea. Andrea lost her father at a young age, and then also lost her mother as she was graduating from culinary school. However, her dreams seemed to be coming true when she landed a dream job as a Dessert Chef at a prestigious restaurant in Chicago. She quickly had fans raving over her first creation when a doctor asked to meet her. After a short courtship and quick marriage, she realized she didn't really know the man she married, Dr. Albert Wilhelm. Andrea was relieved to have Albert leave for a few days to attend a conference in Colorado. But, when he didn't return her problems were just beginning. Public opinion immediately found her guilty as being involved in his disappearance. Over the past year she felt like a threatening shadow had been following her, and she is worried the her husband had gotten involved with some criminal element. When her son has a harrowing experience with his cochlear implant at Pre-school she makes the hard decision to leave the city to evade the threat. The question to be answered is; can she outrun her problems or has this move endangered her son's life? This story is fictional and a product of the author's imagination. However, the readers will enjoy the inclusion of actual background locations in: Omaha, Nebraska; St. Joseph, Missouri; and Chicago, Illinois. The story also intertwines some interesting historical information about the last Kaiser of Prussia, immigrants that fled Germany and the first Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
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