I am thrilled to be hosting a spot
on the BELIEVED by Michael James Emberger Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out
my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!
About The Book:
Author: Michael James Emberger
Pub. Date: October 4, 2021
Publisher: Michael James Emberger
Formats: Hardcover, Paperback, eBook, Audiobook(FREE)
Pages: 429
Find it: Goodreads, books2read
(find all FREE audiobook links here and other purchase links), Free eBook download
here! https://www.michaeljamesemberger.com/believed
Kelsea Jones is like a lot of girls at the University of Northern Minnesota. She has a boyfriend, she works at a coffee shop, and she’s on the swim team. But she’s not a girl. She’s a mermaid.
Trouble brews when star hockey player Chad Andersen takes an interest in her.
She tries to avoid him, but he won’t leave her alone. A son of wealth and
privilege, he takes what he wants, and he gets away with it. He wants Kelsea,
she says no, and so he rapes her. Kelsea stands on a tail and two fins to fight
the most painful trial of her life. Despite her trauma and a crisis of faith,
she speaks the truth of what Chad did, but will she be believed?
A note from the author:
1 out of 4 college girls experiences rape or sexual assault. That breaks my
heart. It’s a crime that has affected people I love, and it has to stop. This
novel is my way of raising awareness and showing survivors that someone hears
them.
Believed is a product of my friendship with a survivor who is an
author and advocate. She opened my eyes to a world of trauma and PTSD that had
been largely invisible to me before I met her, and it was life-changing. I
needed to share that with others. The burden on my heart was too great to not
say something, and fiction is the method I know best to convey the thoughts,
truths, pains, and struggles that I see.
Sexual assault is not my story. I haven’t experienced it, I don’t live with the
resulting trauma, and I do not wish to profit from the pain of survivors. This
is a book for them. It’s a book for those who love them. It’s a book to
encourage readers to think and to empathize and to consider the realities of so
many whose lives have been affected by this crime. If you purchase a copy here,
know that the prices are the minimum allowed. I make no royalty on print
copies. If you would like to read for free, you can download the book at my
website: https://www.michaeljamesemberger.com/believed
If you find value in this work, please consider donating to an organization
that fights against sexual violence or offers support to survivors. Tell your
family and friends about the book. Review it online. Let the survivors in your
life know that you care, that you believe them, and that you are there for
them.
Excerpt
1:
Mr. Johnson
turns into my lot. “I’m sorry, Kelsea. I wasn’t optimistic, but I thought it
would go better than that.”
I shiver.
“They all lied.”
“Perhaps. As
I said, the Andersens own the hospital. I expected something like this might
happen.”
“Do you—” I
stop. Do I want to know?
“What?”
What can it
hurt? “Do you believe me?”
Mr. Johnson
is silent. My question lingers in the car. “Yes,” he finally says.
My heart
sinks. He spoke the word, but I heard the answer. It was in that pause. It was
a yes with uncertainty behind it. It was a yes with conditions attached. It was
a yes with an asterisk.
He pulls to
the curb. “Look on the bright side. You won’t have to testify in a courtroom,
and you won’t have to face the defense lawyers. It will be a lot easier this
way. Life can turn upside down when these things get out in the media. It gets
nasty. But if it goes away now, no one gets hurt.”
I unbuckle
my seatbelt, I get out, and I close the door hard enough that it rocks the car.
I can’t talk to him. I have no response that’s polite. My blood is boiling. He
waves and pulls away, no doubt happy to have dodged the bullet of dealing with
this any further. He thinks we’ll drop it and that will be it. I’ll be fine.
I’ll just move on and forget about the most horrific thing I’ve ever
experienced. After all, it was just rape. What does it matter if they
almost killed me? What does it matter if the nightmares have only gotten worse?
I’m better now. It’s not like I got hurt for real, right?
I clench my
fists and hop toward the nearest solid thing. I punch it. Once. Twice. Again,
and again. I batter it until my knuckles are covered in blood and foam and it
lays mangled on the ground. “Ah!” I scream. I sink to my knees on the snowy
sidewalk. The cuts bubble and close. The blood disappears. There’s nothing left
except for the rage that’s consuming me. I’m not okay. I’m not better. Not at
all.
I sit and rock on my tail and shut my eyes against the world. It’s all wrong. Everything is wrong, and there’s no God if this is what He has for me.
About Michael James Emberger:
Michael
James Emberger is an author of thrillers and suspense residing in Wilton, NH.
He enjoys weaving narratives of conspiracy and misguided intentions around
divisive topics. Where there is debate, there is always room for a villain with
goals far out of alignment from either side. Michael is a graduate of Messiah
College, where he studied Engineering and met his wife racing solar cars
cross-country. When he’s not working on home renovations or writing, he enjoys
visiting the ocean and exploring the majesty of God’s creation on the summits
of New Hampshire’s mountains.
Michael wrote Believed, a heartbreaking and inspirational
tale of a Mermaid in college in Minnesota. It was the most difficult book he’s
ever written, but also the most important. He’s made it available for free in
audiobook and e-book formats, and he hopes it will encourage and inform.
Website | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Goodreads | Amazon | BookBub
There isn’t a giveaway for this tour. Instead Michael is giving away the audiobook and ebook! You can download a FREE copy of the audiobook here! https://books2read.com/u/bzVLlD
OR a FREE copy of the eBook HERE! https://www.michaeljamesemberger.com/believed
and if you love the book please help spread the word with a review or share the
links with your friends!
Tour Schedule:
Week One:
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9/1/2022 |
Excerpt 2 |
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9/2/2022 |
Guest Post/IG Post |
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9/3/2022 |
Guest Post/IG Post |
Week Two:
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9/4/2022 |
Excerpt 1/IG Post |
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9/5/2022 |
Excerpt 2 |
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9/6/2022 |
Guest Post/IG Post |
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9/7/2022 |
Excerpt 1/IG Post |
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9/8/2022 |
IG Spotlight |
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9/9/2022 |
Review/IG Post |
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9/10/2022 |
IG Spotlight |
Week Three:
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9/11/2022 |
Excerpt 1/IG Post |
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9/12/2022 |
Review/IG Post |
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9/13/2022 |
Excerpt 2/IG Post |
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9/14/2022 |
IG Spotlight |
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9/15/2022 |
Review/IG Post |
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9/16/2022 |
TikTok Review/IG Post |
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9/17/2022 |
Review/IG Post |
Week Four:
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9/18/2022 |
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9/19/2022 |
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9/20/2022 |
Excerpt 1/IG Post |
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9/21/2022 |
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9/22/2022 |
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9/23/2022 |
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9/24/2022 |
Review/IG Post |
Week Five:
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9/25/2022 |
Excerpt 2 |
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9/26/2022 |
Review/IG Post |
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9/27/2022 |
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9/28/2022 |
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9/29/2022 |
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9/30/2022 |
Review/IG Post |
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