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Shielded Past is riveting and full of suspense. So many questions need to be answered. We find out about Kate's life in foster care after being abandoned by her mother. We meet Annie Collins, her best friend since their high school days. Kate meets her ideal man and they purchase their dream home. This home was restored to its magnificent grandeur by her husband Gregg, and it is here that the intrigue begins. There is a light that shines every evening from the adjacent abandoned Marlboro Psychiatric Hospital in New Jersey, and with this, the suspense commences. We journey with Kate and Annie as they seek answers to the source of the light. It is not only the light they are seeking answers to, Kate's past is also in question. Her seemingly bright future becomes more clouded by the unknown as the questions multiply. Kate wants to know who she is and finds out rather quickly that she was lucky to be shielded from her past. The forces that must be contended with are both dark and light. The two are not always distinguishable, and knowing who to trust is not always obvious. When Kate finds out her real surname, it connects her to a family she never knew existed. With the help of her new found family the past is unravelled and the truth about her parents is revealed. Kate must now live with the memories of the horrors that were inflicted on her loved ones. Meet the man and learn his reasons for torturing so many innocent victims. The suspense does not end here. There are questions that still remain. Was there a connection to her dream home and her past? Why does Kate and all those who love her feel that she is in danger?
Shielded Past, by Patti Morelli - Amazon Sales Rank: #1959139 in Books
- Published on: 2015-06-24
- Released on: 2015-06-24
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x .66" w x 5.50" l, .74 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 262 pages
Shielded Past, by Patti Morelli About the Author This is Patti's second book published through Trafford Publishing. Patti's first book was written under a pen name. In January of 2015 her first book received the Gold Seal of Literary Excellence Award from Trafford Publishing. Patti has lived a full life. She has achieved success in business, politics, marriage, motherhood, and all of life's challenges. Years ago as Patti toured the grounds of Marlboro Psychiatric Hospital, her vivid imagination conjured up this story. Her love for suspense and mystery novels inspired her to write this book. With the assistance of her editors, Karen Platone and Janice Nelson, Patti feels that this has been a joyous collaboration of three powerful women with brilliant literary minds. One idea three minds could only be triumphant.
EDITORIAL REVIEW
Packed with suspense and mystery, this was a thoroughly engaging book from start to finish. There were multiple surprises throughout each of the chapters, culminating with a big reveal and a suspenseful finish.
Reviewed by: Micheal Radon
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Excellent Mystery By Marilyn Thompson Shielded Past by Patti Morelli is a well-written tale of mystery and intrigue. It is a tale about how little we all know about our pasts and the ones we love. Kate had been in foster care since she was 3 years old, so she knew nothing about her family. She eventually met and married the man of her dreams and gave birth to a little girl of her own. With the help of her best friend, Annie, Kate begins to search for answers about her past. Some of those answers are welcome blessings, others are heartbreaking and a threat to all she holds dear and her very life.I enjoyed this story from beginning to end. It moved at a pace that held my interest. The story was new and original something I liked because many stories of this type are cliché. I gave this book a 5 star rating and recommend it because of its fluid writing, original content, and interesting story line. I would love to see this as a Lifetime movie.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A gripping psychological thriller By Erin M. Kate doesn't know much about her childhood, and she's not asking--not yet. After growing up in the System, and bouncing from family to family, Kate has finally made it. She's got a great job, she's married the perfect man (Gregg), and they've just bought the perfect little house in the country. The only problem is that the house sits on the grounds of an abandoned psychiatric hospital. Kate becomes mildly obsessed with the hospital, noticing the eerie presence of a light in one of the windows. To make matters worse, Gregg has to travel a lot for his work, leaving Kate alone with her imaginings and her growing dread of the hospital. With the help of her friend Annie, Kate begins to go down the rabbit hole of her past, first exploring the hospital, discovering family she did not know she had, and secrets that haunt her dreams. She discovers that the psychiatric hospital was the scene of indescribable horrors--and is a place that is indelibly intertwined with her past and her present.I was excited to read this book when I found out it had a horror/psychological thriller element to it, and I was not disappointed. I have long been fascinated and disgusted with the treatment of the mentally ill through the ages. Mental illnesses for which we now have multifarious diagnoses were in many cases chalked up to simple "madness," and the treatments were not nuanced in the least. Heavy sedation, lobotomy, and "skull drills" were among the available treatments, and all in all, psychiatric hospitals, well into the 20th Century, were more like jails than treatment facilities. This certainly seemed to be the case for Kate’s mother at the Marlboro Psychiatric Hospital in Shielded Past.From a narrative standpoint, Morelli made extremely good use of her chosen setting, and exhibited a really good understanding of how to build narrative tension. She begins by presenting us with a picture of a perfect life, where everything is seemingly as it should be: Cinderella has her prince, they're moving into their castle, and there is already a room for a future baby. From there, everything starts to slip gradually into chaos. There are light moments along the way to break up the tension, (This is not Stephen King, after all. But even Jack Torrance didn't slide into madness overnight.) but overall, the story continues its relentless march toward its terrible climax. The horror Kate faces lies less in the present and more in the revelations of the past. But there is certainly a growing threat to her own person--and Morelli, I think, really effectively foreshadows this threat without out giving it away outright. It's a hard balance to strike: making you suspect someone and then making you second-guess yourself right up until the last second. In my opinion, one of the best villains in all of literature is Iago from Shakespeare's Othello. Perhaps it is because he is the most despicable sort of villain in that he presents the face of a friend while hiding the heart of a wolf. Shielded Past draws a bit on this motif.I felt that Morelli had a really solid cast of characters. Kate is arguably the main character, but I liked learning about Kate through her friend Annie. Annie was sort of the life of the book. She is so much more than comic relief, but drives the story forward. It is she, not Kate, who is the catalyst for many of Kate's discoveries. I was also fascinated by another character (who I will not reveal by name, in the interest of avoiding spoilers) who was a monster and did monstrous things, but who was also capable of deep and real love. I love it when an author takes a risk and asks us to look at the other side of the monster. It is easy to demonize those who do despicable things--and maybe they deserve to be demonized, at least partly. But it is even harder, and maybe more worthwhile, to try to find the humanity in such people.The one beef I had with Shielded Past probably stems from my editing background. There was a lot of inconsistency with use of punctuation, paragraph breaks, etc. throughout the book. I can, of course, excuse missing periods or close-quotes here and there, but there were many instances where I had to stop and figure out who was talking because it was not clear from the formatting. Also, a personal stylistic preference, but I really dislike comma splices. I think there are instances where two independent clauses can be joined by a comma if it is following the natural flow of language. But in many instances, spliced sentences just read funny to me, almost like run-on sentences, and feel a little careless.ConclusionPatti Morelli has crafted a really great story with Shielded Past. If you've read my past reviews, you know that I put the highest premium on story. And while I prefer that the strength of the writing match the strength of the plot, I am more concerned that the plot and the characters work together cohesively. In Shielded Past, they do just that. I was hooked early on, and I found myself reading for hours at a time at each sitting. If you want a suspenseful read that will have you guessing right up until the end, you will not be disappointed.(Read this review and others at www.writerreads.com)
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. and Kate is overjoyed with their new home until she sees a light ... By Egress Emeritus After a rocky start, Kate's life was becoming everything she'd ever hoped for. Orphaned at a young age and living in and out of foster care, Kate is now a successful regional manager for department stores in the greater New York City area. Now, Kate is newly married to Gregg Lawson, an architectural designer and handsome man that Kate was smitten with since she first laid eyes on him. The two are able to buy a dilapidated house for very cheap in Marlboro, New Jersey because of its proximity to an abandoned psychiatric hospital. Gregg fixes up the house to be a dream house, and Kate is overjoyed with their new home until she sees a light on in the hospital from her window. What starts as a curious fascination with the nature of that light becomes a thread that unravels virtually every aspect of Kate's life, from the identity of her mother to a mysterious activity that her husband is involved in.Packed with suspense and mystery, this was a thoroughly engaging book from start to finish. There were multiple surprises throughout each of the chapters, culminating with a big reveal and a suspenseful finish. Elements of romance, suspense, drama, horror, and even the supernatural can be found in this story, and they blend together very well as Kate and her friend Annie dig compulsively into information that proves to be both rewarding and dangerous to the both of them. The characters are well-rounded and fascinating, from the bubbly Annie to the nefarious and twisted Dr. Reisner, and the climax proves to be both satisfying and exciting for readers. Considering the inclusion of some rather dark subject material, readers with frail sensibilities may need to sleep with the lights on after uncovering the mysteries of this story.
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