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Authors: Cameron Jace
He turned around and faced The Pillar. “Oh, holy lord of rings,” he said. “I know who you are.”
The Pillar titled his head with pursed lips. He even shook his head in a ‘no’. “Don’t do it, Dormouse. Don’t think too much. It may cost you more than you can handle.”
“Let me rephrase it,” Dormouse insisted, unable to suppress his thoughts. “All of us have been mistaken from the beginning, questioning who you really were.”
The Pillar said nothing.
“We were asking the wrong question,” Inspector Dormouse said. “The right question was who you weren’t. And who you aren’t.”
The Pillar squeezed his eyes shut, and let out a long sigh. He gritted his teeth, his hand tightening on the gun. “Don’t say it, Dormouse. Just leave.”
But Dormouse’s excitement and curiosity took the best of him. “You’re not The Pillar. You have no relation to the monster Carter Chrysalis Cocoon Pillar, whatsoever.”
The Pillar opened his eyes, looking angry, like a hangman sad he had to pull the lever, and pointed the gun at the inspector.
“In the name of Wonderland, Alice, Lewis Carroll, and all the mad people in the world,” Dormouse said. “Who are you?”
“I’m the one who unfortunately needs to put you to sleep – forever,” The Pillar said and shot him dead.
The END…
Alice will return in Family (Insanity 7)
Thank You
Thank you for purchasing and downloading Checkmate. The only book in the series without an epilogue – or two. Reason? I didn’t want to prepare you for the surprises. ‘
Oh, now to the epilogue, the big reveal
!’ I wanted the big reveals to hit you earlier than expected. I hope it worked.
Checkmate is my proudest Insanity book so far, and that’s because it’s a purely organic book, meaning events happened because characters said so, and because the logical turn of events and circumstances forced the story to go this way. After knowing about her past, Alice needed to prove to herself she can stand up to Black Chess by taking the harshest of decisions, and The Pillar, well, we need to know who the heck he is and what he really wants with her. All those chapters you’ve just read, trust me, I was only a means to writing them but they developed on their own. I really liked that.
However, there had been an epilogue, tying the loose end in the Cheshire’s story after meeting Mr. Jay, but I chopped it out because I didn’t want you to know whom the Cheshire will possess from now, not in this book. It will be explained in Family, the next book in the series. In many ways, Family is a continuity of Checkmate.
All puzzles and landmarks mentioned are real, so are the facts – I’m always happy when I receive emails from readers who’ve visited these places because of the books.
Characters like Mr Paperwhite and Father Williams are Lewis Carroll’s inventions. However, characters like Chopin the Chopper are mine (he just popped up on the screen and wouldn’t let go, and frankly I dared not chop him out of the story, because I feared for my fingers.)
Last but not least, I can’t express how much I enjoy writing this series. I probably enjoy writing it more than any of you enjoy reading it.
Don’t miss the Pinterest page, where you can see all the places and riddles Alice and Pillar visited (I’ve updated it tremendously, so there are whole new places to see.)
You can access it
HERE
(Pinterest)
or
HERE
(Instagram)
Family
(Insanity 7) will be released soon, so please stay tuned to my Facebook Page:
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If you have a question, please message me on Facebook; I love connecting with all of my readers, because without you, none of this would be possible.
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Thank you, for sharing this mad journey with me,
Cam
About the Author
The part that matters
:
Cameron Jace is a Storykiller. He kills older stories, resurrects them into larger than life tales weaved within facts & fiction. With a nack for collecting out-of-print books, he is fascinated with both: folklore and those who wrote it. He wonders if it’s possible to track back the first story ever told.
The part that is nothing but propaganda
:
Cameron is the bestselling author of the Grimm Diaries series and the Insanity series. Three of his books made Amazon's Top 100 Customer Favorites books for 2013. He is a graduate of the College of Architecture, but prefers building a fortress of imagination over a house. Cameron lives in California with his girlfriend. He loves to hear from you:
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