Red String: A Bittersweet Empathy novelette

by Nikki DeKeuster

This is not a love story. It isn’t a knitting story either, so if that’s what you’re looking for, try the DIY section four rows over. As for me, all I want is a normal date night at the carnival, eating funnel cake, scoring prizes, and snuggling in the Tunnel of Love. But when one of the rides ends in a death toll, it trips my need to help in a world too often void of it. Problem is, I’m supposed to be staying on the down-low, and playing the hero is high profile.

Now, my boyfriend and I are on the run, with more mayhem, carnage, and Carolina swamp muck than you can shake a radioactive raccoon at. If we can’t rig this high-wire game of pursuit in our favor, I’ll be wishing for the inside of a body bag.

Will our red string be severed before we can cross the state line?

Content Mature content and themes. Graphic language. Graphic sex. Graphic violence. Graphic design. Graphic ellipsis use…
-PLEASE This is a promotional novelette for those signing up for my newsletter. Forty-five of its ninety pages contain the first six chapters of my novel “The Spiral.” The two stories are connected but can be read in either order.

99 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 1, 2021

About the author

Nikki DeKeuster invites you to sit with her around the fire as she weaves you dark tales of mischief, mayhem, and mad love. Stories that stick to your ribs long after the lights have been doused and your head hits the pillow.

She enjoys crunching leaves underfoot while exploring the bluffs of Lake Michigan with her daughter and husband.


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Reviews

[Jordan Francis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Quick but beautiful read.

Nikki has a talent that will grab onto you with her habit of painting with words. She draws you in quickly into an interesting tale and sells you on an empath and her seemingly emotionless lover. I thoroughly enjoyed it and can’t wait to read the series this is based in.

[Gina · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting and bizarre.