To Have and To Hold, to Love and to Kill Blog Tour #AgreementofSouls

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 Amy Sampson-Cutler’s

To Have and To Hold, To Love and To Kill

 

 

Book Summary

In her past life, after causing the death of a little boy, Nikki was so devastated that her soul mate promised to murder her in their next life, to make her pay for what she had done. With no knowledge of this, Nikki lives for years as an addict, down on her luck, until she is rescued by Ken, who helps her with all aspects of her recovery. With the help of a few new friends and a cat named Destiny, Nikki turns her life around. What she doesn’t know is that someone out there is destined to kill her, and he is watching, his passion for killing her growing stronger each day.

The question is: Can an agreement made between two souls be broken, and how far will one soul go to keep a promise made in a desperate attempt to save the other?

 

Publisher: Black Rose Writing

ISBN-10: 1685133428

ISBN-13: 978-1685133429

Print length: 195 pages

 

Where to Find To Have and To Hold, To Love and To Kill:

https://www.amazon.com/Have-Hold-Love-Kill-Agreement/dp/1685133428/

https://bookshop.org/p/books/to-have-and-to-hold-to-love-and-to-kill-an-agreement-of-souls-amy-s-cutler/20601757?ean=9781685133429&next=t

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/200655790-to-have-and-to-hold-to-love-and-to-kill

 

Guest Post: Turning Everyday Encounters into Spooky Stories

By Amy S Cutler

 

When I was a kid, I did a lot of back-seat traveling with my family. Every weekend during the spring, summer and fall months, the four of us – mom, dad, my sister, and myself, would pile in the car with our various assortment of dogs, and drive five hours to our house in upstate, New York.

There were a few elements that I can think of that would have influenced my “core memories” and helped my poor, lonely imagination to become filled with fright.

During those car rides, when I wasn’t obsessively rewinding my Walkman so that I could write down every word to every Metallica song ever written, I would read. Today, I can hardly look at my phone while in the car without going into the throws of motion sickness, but back then I read, and I read a lot. My two mainstays? Stephen King, and Danielle Steel. These authors couldn’t be any more different. Horror and romance (I prefer to call it romance, okay?), with a side dish of Enter Sandman and Master of Puppets running through my head, for at least ten hours a week, every week, shaped me as a person even as I was still wearing pigtails and sported my name on my shirts.

The result? A confused, jumbled up, and deep seeded fear of just about everything. I simply can’t help but watch a nice, loving couple at a restaurant and wonder if the guy is really a serial killer. As they order their mixed blend wine and hold hands, I consider how long it would take me to get from my seat in the restaurant to the nearest exit, just in case he decides that this is the moment to choose his next victim. As they order dessert and he passes his plate over to the waitress, I wonder if it’s bodies he’s hiding in his basement, or if he prefers a dump site.

I consider these things, while ordering my own wine and chatting about my day with my husband, who I am almost 100 percent sure does not have any skeletons hiding out in in our basement … because I’ve checked.

It sounds weird, right? I know it does, yet I can’t help it. It’s like I’ve got these concepts of romance and horror, and they were mixed around in my brain on a bumpy road so long ago that I cannot unscramble them. Worse, except for the times where I really scare myself (hello, Pennywise bobblehead in my car), I find it to be entertaining. I also feel – mistakenly, at times – that other people find it entertaining, as well. My favorite sentence starter is, “What if,” such as: “What if we actually died last week? And right now, we are in limbo because our brains just haven’t stopped assuming what comes next,” or “What if that beeping in the other room is really my alarm clock, and if I wake up, I will be in a whole different life?”

Turning everyday encounters into spooky story ideas isn’t something that I actively cultivate, it’s just something that I automatically do, like washing my hands or turning off the lights at night. My brain is wired to make things scary for me, and sometimes, I will hold onto one of those thoughts long enough to write a little synopsis. And then, if inspired, I will write a little story about it. On very lucky occasions, I will formulate a whole plot, and watch it come to life. And that is where the real fun starts!

 

 

About the Author

Amy Sampson-Cutler, author of “To Have and to Hold, to Love and to Kill: An Agreement of Souls” and “A Shadow of Love,” is a writer who earned her master’s degree in creative writing from Goddard College. Her work can be found in Slut Vomit: An Anthology of Sex Work, Tales to Terrify, WOW! Women on Writing, The Pitkin Review and more. She is the Executive Manager at Mount Peter Ski Area, where she grew up skiing in the winter and dreaming up stories in the summer. Her favorite days are spent knocking around story ideas with her husband. She lives in the Hudson Valley with her husband, son, and a ridiculous amount of furry family members. 

She can be contacted through AmysHippieHut.com. Also follow her on:

Facebook: https://facebook.com/AmysHippieHut

Instagram: https://instagram.com/amyshippiehut

 

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