An emotional freight train...crashing through the walls of a California courtroom...

Have you ever read a story that made you ignore the ringing phone, made you late for appointments and made you absolutely NEED to read late into the night? If not, then you're in for a treat because Rebecca Forster is an author who understands that storytelling is, first and foremost, about making us yearn for the next page, and then the next, and then the next. In "Hostile Witness," the first book in the Witness series, she creates a whole lot of reader yearning.

 

Our story begins with Josie Baylor-Bates, an attorney who has turned away from the fame and fortune of a super-successful criminal defense career. For reasons we don't understand, she settles into a quiet California beach town where elderly estates and urinating in public are among her more challenging cases. However, when beautiful Linda Sheraton, one of Josie's past volleyball teammates, comes banging at her door, we quickly learn that Josie is not just taking time off, she's terrified at the prospect of returning to her previous high-profile career. But when she learns that Linda's sixteen-year-old girl daughter has been wrongfully imprisoned for the murder of a seated California Supreme Court Judge, the hellish gates of her past come swinging wide open.

And all of this happens in just the first few pages. To say this unfolding legal drama is an emotional freight train would be a gross understatement. Step into Rebecca Forster's "Hostile Witness" and you'll agree that this is one legal thriller that puts relationships up front while giving us front row seats to a no-holds-barred courtroom battle.

Definitely a keeper. Read "Hostile Witness."

Reviewed by "Maine's Other Author"(TM) Tim Greaton

"Red Gloves," the second book in the Samaritans Conspiracy will be available in 48 hours!

I'm beyond excited to say that "Red Gloves" the second novel in "the Samaritans Conspiracy" will be out within the next 48 hours!

Just as the City of Portland Maine is struck with a horrific crime wave of high school drugs and teenage killings, Lead Detective Priscilla Harris’s life swirls out of control.  A terrible car accident has derailed her son’s basketball dreams, so he quits college and turns to methamphetamines to cope.  To keep him from backsliding any further, Priscilla spends thousands of dollars on two drug rehab programs, but when the second try fails she doesn’t know where to turn. Worse yet, she learns her husband has stolen the remaining $30,000 of her inheritance money to run off with his beautiful, blond secretary. In the midst of it all, a mysterious red-gloved stranger is stalking both Priscilla and her son.

Can Priscilla find some way to save her city before her son joins the other teenagers whose bodies are stacking up like cordwood?

In “The Santa Shop” Tim Greaton showed us the bitterness of despair and the sweet taste of hope. In this second book of “The Samarians Conspiracy,” he serves up a full seven-course, emotional meal. Priscilla’s story will drag you through the depths of struggle and despair but not without amazing rewards.

One reviewer says, “Tim’s fans will follow him to Hell in gasoline raincoats….” Isn’t it time you found out why?  

This novel has been over a year in the making, and I sincerely hope it lives up to the expectations of the 80,000-plus readers who have already enjoyed "The Santa Shop." Please know that I couldn't have done it without the support of so many readers. I will be forever grateful for this life of writing that you have all so graciously granted to me.