| Author: | Peter Michael Rosenberg | ISBN: | 1230000018274 |
| Publisher: | Mojito Press | Publication: | September 14, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Peter Michael Rosenberg |
| ISBN: | 1230000018274 |
| Publisher: | Mojito Press |
| Publication: | September 14, 2012 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
It's everyone's nightmare. You're home alone one night and something wakes you. Was it a noise? Or do you just have a feeling that something's not quite right? Sleep-befuddled Jonathan Fairchild doesn't really believe it's a burglar. It's more likely to be his wife, who walked out on him two days ago.
Yes, it's Liz, back with her tail between her legs, he thinks as he creeps downstairs. Still, strange she hasn't put the lights on... and that's when the man shoves him up against the wall and puts a gun to his head, whispering "Your time to die...
It's the start of the longest night of Jonathan's life. He has been "chosen" and it's the Intruder's duty to carry out the execution. But before he kills him, he needs Jonathan to "confess". Jonathan protests he's innocent, he hasn't done anything, it's all a terrible mistake; but as the Intruder says, "everyone's guilty of something".
Jonathan begs the Intruder for mercy, but the gunman is unrelenting. Jonathan begins to suspect that there may be darker reasons for his predicament; that this is in fact a game of psychological torture and that Liz is behind it.
As the Intruder interrogates him, Jonathan is forced to revisit his relationship with her: the seduction, his early obsessive love for her and her gradual disenchantment. But what did he ever do to his wife that warrants a death sentence?
"Because It Makes My Heart Beat Faster" explores the heights and depths of romantic love - and the terrible things that people can do to each other in its name.
It's everyone's nightmare. You're home alone one night and something wakes you. Was it a noise? Or do you just have a feeling that something's not quite right? Sleep-befuddled Jonathan Fairchild doesn't really believe it's a burglar. It's more likely to be his wife, who walked out on him two days ago.
Yes, it's Liz, back with her tail between her legs, he thinks as he creeps downstairs. Still, strange she hasn't put the lights on... and that's when the man shoves him up against the wall and puts a gun to his head, whispering "Your time to die...
It's the start of the longest night of Jonathan's life. He has been "chosen" and it's the Intruder's duty to carry out the execution. But before he kills him, he needs Jonathan to "confess". Jonathan protests he's innocent, he hasn't done anything, it's all a terrible mistake; but as the Intruder says, "everyone's guilty of something".
Jonathan begs the Intruder for mercy, but the gunman is unrelenting. Jonathan begins to suspect that there may be darker reasons for his predicament; that this is in fact a game of psychological torture and that Liz is behind it.
As the Intruder interrogates him, Jonathan is forced to revisit his relationship with her: the seduction, his early obsessive love for her and her gradual disenchantment. But what did he ever do to his wife that warrants a death sentence?
"Because It Makes My Heart Beat Faster" explores the heights and depths of romantic love - and the terrible things that people can do to each other in its name.
