It's Cliffhanger Saturday: Just Like the Matinees of Old

Cliff Hanger Saturday is a place where you can post your favorite "cliff hangers" of all time or just good writing at the end of the scene. (if not your own work, please give credit to the author and the book.) We all know, a scene should not end with anyone going to sleep. YAWN. But sometimes we see this. If the characters go to sleep, so do we.

So share favorites or write one here.

I have been posting excerpts for advertising and Rogue Phoenix Press. If you are writing an excerpt for something make sure that excerpt ends making the reader turn the page and read on. Do we want the reader up all night? Of course we do!

This is from LEGACY OF ANGELS by Genie Gabriel. LEGACY OF ANGELS may be purchased from Rogue Phoenix Press.

Seeing Patrick give to others with little thought for his own needs at first confused Claudia. He was not like any man or priest she had ever known. She had seen priests act humble and unselfish when it served their purposes, but had never seen someone who lived these values. Patrick wasn't brutal and didn't try to control others like most of the men who had been part of her life, yet no one took advantage of him.


And of course I have to post a cliff hanging picture.

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Her curiosity about him grew each day, and finally she asked the question intriguing her most. "Why did you become a priest?"

Only the rumble of the train car filled the silence for several moments following Claudia's question.

Then Patrick spoke, so quietly at first she strained to hear him. "My father killed me when I was four."