Stray Thoughts [CD-ROM]

Elizabeth Stewart (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 2002

Sheridan Phillips has a dead end job, a boss "affectionately" known as the Prince of Darkness, a stack of rejection slips to compliment her would-be writing career, and a serial rapist preying on women in her neighborhood. Life, it seems, can't get much bleaker.

One cold winter night, Sheridan takes in a stray cat and names the adorable little guy Nick. She loves the scruffy little thing to distraction but pretty soon things start getting weird…

Who is this mysterious creature she's taken into her home, her life, and her bed? Whoever or whatever he is, she only hopes he can save her from the most terrifying danger a woman can face...and bring her the love she so desperately seeks.

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Product Details

• CD-ROM: 160 pages
• Publisher: Ellora's Cave (June 2002)
• ISBN-10: 1843600072
• ISBN-13: 978-1843600077
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,964,875 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Timeless Tales Review 4.5 stars!, January 15, 2003

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This review is from: Stray Thoughts (CD-ROM)

By TT reviewer Nicole La Folle

Sheridan Phillips is an aspiring author, who is working a dead end job as the administrative assistant of an engineering firm until her writing career takes off. After a terrible day at the office, a rainy commute home and a rejection letter for her latest submission, she hears a scratching at her fire escape window. She opens the window to find a huge black tomcat who casually invites himself inside. Sheridan shares her dinner with the cat and decides to let him stay the night. She names the cat Nick. The next morning she is disappointed when he asks to be let out after breakfast.

Nick is back that evening. Sheridan notices strange coincidences starting to occur. She needs food for Nick and finds a can of salmon she doesn't remember purchasing. She would like to have a fire, but doesn't have any firewood. The next evening, a neighbor shows up to give her the firewood he can't use. After a particularly long day at work where the boss has made her work until after 6, Sheridan ends up having to walk 9 blocks home in a snowstorm because of a traffic accident near her apartment. She winds up with a terrible cold. That night, she wishes that her boss would be in a car accident and off work for 6 months or so. After three days of recuperating, Sheridan returns to work to find out that her boss has been in a car accident, one caused by a large black cat.

Stray Thoughts is a wonderful story that combines the paranormal with a mystery or two. The romance is not as big a part of this book as the other elements, but it is definitely there as well. Ms. Stewart gives a realistic depiction of the life of an aspiring author. Her characters are realistic and lifelike and Sheridan's struggles will keep you emotionally involved from beginning to end. The story will catch you up and not let you go until you finish it. This book was the first I had read by Ms. Stewart, but it won't be the last.