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Blindsided
Marguerite Ashton
(The Forgotten Daughter, #1)
Publication date: July 13th 2020
Genres: Mystery, Thriller, Young Adult

Diagnosed with depression, Lexi Archer prefers to continue outpatient treatment. But someone else has other plans.

BlindSided tells the story of Lexi Archer, an eighteen-year-old woman who wakes up in a hospital bed, handcuffed to the rail, and realizes she doesn’t remember what happened the night before.

After being released from the hospital, Lexi’s transferred to the Milwaukee County Jail, where she’s informed about her pending charges for first-degree murder.

Intent on proving she’s innocent, Lexi places a phone call to her stepsister asking for her help. As Lexi gets closer to the truth, she unravels ugly secrets about her dead mother that will change her life forever.

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Excerpt

Before long, September had rolled around, and the new school session had begun. Dad kept his

word and let me stay with Aunt Tammy during the school week. On the weekends, just like 

before, Friday through Monday morning, I was at his house.

      Although I’d ignored Dad’s concerns about my aunt, it didn’t occur to me that the ones 

dovetailing with the hate he had for my mother would soon make me regret that I had made a 

different decision. It didn’t take long for my aunt’s personality, which soon mimicked that of my

mother, to rear its ugly head. The only difference was the heightened emotions, and verbal 

abuse Aunt Tammy heaped on me; began to take a toll.

      I could never do anything right. I didn’t eat the proper food. I was gaining too much weight. 

Chores Aunt Tammy assigned me, and she’d follow me, catching a speck of dust on the wood 

trim or an oil streak in the saucepan that I missed.

      Her demands messed with my emotions. The constant stomach pain I endured lasted for 

days at a time.

      The hope of being asked to the upcoming dance numbed the feeling of my twisted gut.  

Every girl wanted to be asked out by one of the athletes, no matter their status. Me, I can’t lie 

and say that I didn’t wish guys drooled over me the way they did all the “fun” girls.  My ordeal 

left me with a constant craving for escape. 

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BlindSided

Marguerite Ashton

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Author Bio:

When Marguerite Ashton was in her twenties, she took up acting but realized she preferred to work behind the camera, writing crime fiction. A few years later, she married an IT Geek and settled down with her role as wife, mom, and writer!

Her blog, Criminal Lines: Settled Writer Past 40 is her outlet while building dollhouses and plotting out her next book.

Marguerite lives in Wisconsin and enjoys RVing.

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