Reviews for
REDEMPTION
by Debra Lee

 

4 ½ Stars

The one thing that I absolutely love about Debra Lee's books is that she
makes her characters real. She did this with Fay Cunningham, in A
DANGEROUS WOMAN, and she has done it again with Kay Diggs in REDEMPTION.

When you read Ms. Lee's books you can relate to the characters. They
aren't plastic; they are real, with faults, feelings, and the
characteristics that you find in yourself. Add that to a wonderful
story and you have a blockbuster.

Kay Diggs lives alone with her husband Bill, her son and daughter having
left home. Kay has been writing books for quite some time, none of
which have sold, until now. And boy did this one sell! A five million
dollar advance! A dream come true for any author, much less a first
time one. Kay and Bill can now afford for Kay not to have to find a job
outside of the home, and can afford to send their daughter, Amy, to
college.

Just as Bill and Kay are getting used to the idea of not having any more
financial troubles, and perhaps finally being able to build their own
home, trouble starts. Kay is kidnapped.

While out jogging one morning, Kay spots a fellow woman jogger who has
been hurt. As she is trying to help this woman, a man drives up and
offers to take them to a nearby house where they can obtain help.
Against Kay's best instincts, she takes the man up on his offer, and
soon finds herself blindfolded, gagged, and bound in what appears to be
a barn. After being asked some questions about her newly released book
she is set free with the warning that if she tells anyone at all about
what has happened her daughter, Amy, will be harmed. She is also told
that she is being watched constantly and so they will know if she does
tell anyone. With that Kay is released, unharmed. Physically, anyway.
Psychologically Kay is a mess.

Kay keeps going over, and over in her mind just exactly what it could be
about her purely fictional book that could be so important. It is about
a woman being killed thirty years ago at a nearby college, by a person
who later becomes the President of the United States. The entire story
was all made up in her mind. Totally fictional...or is it? She does
remember a conversation that she overheard in a restaurant, but it only
gave her an idea for the story, not the story itself. And no one was
killed in that story, just disappeared. It certainly isn't the same
story. Her story is fiction.

Whatever is going on here is scaring Kay, especially the threats against
Amy. And she can't let Bill know. She can't let anyone know.

Soon it becomes evident that there are people watching the Diggs home.
Kay can't hide her fear and agitation from Bill. Kay's phone calls to
her daughter are getting even more fearful, and both Bill and Amy are
picking up on her agitation. There are people following Kay that are
seen by Bill, and now they have found "bugs" in the house. Kay finally
has no recourse but to let Bill know what is going on.

Just as soon as this whole surveillance thing of Kay starts, it stops.
The people, who have been told to follow Kay and find out about the
book, are called off. But that certainly does not end the story. Kay
won't let it go. She has to find out what happened, why is her
"fictional" story so important, and just who is involved in this whole
thing. Kay becomes involved in deception, murder, intrigue, politics,
and just about everything that you can imagine. Much, much more than
she ever imagined when she wrote her fictional story.

Ms. Lee has done it again. She has taken a wonderful, normal, everyday
woman and made her into a hero. A woman that you cannot only like, but
you can love and admire. REDEMPTION is a story that will grab you in
the first pages; take you to the top of the hill, and then up the
mountain. It doesn't let you go. You just keep reading, and reading
until you come to those last few words, and then you want more.

I absolutely love Ms. Lee's books. In fact I can't get enough of them.
You can relate to her characters, love her stories, and only want more
when you read one of them. I am still waiting for more of Fay's
adventures from A DANGEROUS WOMAN, and now am waiting for more of Kay's adventures from REDEMPTION.

There is no way that Ms. Lee can write her books fast enough for me. I
am totally hooked, and hope to keep seeing her write more, and more in
the future. I know you will feel the same way when you pick up a copy
of REDEMPTION. You too will be hooked, just as I am.

~ MurderReviews.com

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Kay Diggs is a writer. She writes fiction novels. One day, after
overhearing two women talk about a girl who disappeared at a college party
thirty-one years ago, she decides to write about it. When she started the
story, she made most of it up, and put in some things the women told her.

Kay sent the book in to an agent, who says a publisher offered her $5
million dollars for her story. After that, strange things begin to happen.
An odd van was parked outside her house all day and night, her husband Bill,
found mini camcorders placed in rooms around the house, and she always felt
like someone was watching her.

When she finds out that the vice-president, Dane Williams, was
involved in the disappearance of the girl from long ago, the President of
the United States calls Kay and asks for her help. There are many important
people involved now that Kay's story has come out. Will she be able to help
without getting herself killed first?

~LISA @ Book Review Cafe

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