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Award-winning and International bestselling author Ashley Fontainne is an avid reader of mostly the classics. Ashley became a fan of the written word in her youth, starting with the Nancy Drew mystery series. Stories that immerse the reader deep into the human psyche and the monsters that lurk within us are her favorite reads.
Her muse for penning the EVISCERATING THE SNAKE series was The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. Ashley's love for this book is what sparked her desire to write her debut novel, Accountable to None, the first book in the trilogy. With a modern setting to the tale, Ashley delves into just what lengths a person is willing to go when they seek personal justice for heinous acts perpetrated upon them. The second novel in the series, Zero Balance focuses on the cost and reciprocal cycle that obtaining revenge has on the seeker. For once the cycle starts, where does it end? How far will the tendrils of revenge expand? Adjusting Journal Entries answered that question: far and wide.
Her short thriller entitled Number Seventy-Five, touches upon the sometimes dangerous world of online dating. Number Seventy-Five took home the BRONZE medal in fiction/suspense at the 2013 Readers' Favorite International Book Awards contest and is currently in production for a feature film.
Her latest release, the suspenseful thriller The Lie, took home the GOLD medal in the 2013 ILLUMINATION BOOK AWARDS for ebook/fiction.
Reviewed by Rich Follett for Readers' Favorite
The Lie by Ashley Fontainne is an ‘End-of-Days’ thriller wherein page after page feels like the moment before the drop on the highest hill of a roller coaster. This is not a book for the faint of heart but those who choose to take it on will be rewarded with the ride of a lifetime. Fictional novelist Karmen Moncrille is compelled by the disembodied voices and visions of famous writers to pen masterworks with styles eerily similar to the writer whose works inspired (and may have dictated) each one. Her fame and her bank account grow until she is completely overwhelmed with life in the spotlight and retreats to her home place in Kentucky for some time away from her demons. The series of events which follow is the stuff of nightmares and box office blockbusters.
Ashley Fontainne’s own literary voice is equal parts siren and succubus. Easy, natural dialogue is interspersed with sections of bloodcurdling demonic narrative so precise and malevolent that it will unseat the most rational resolve. The reader must frequently struggle to remember that “it’s just a book.” The Lie is a book to be read with friends nearby, every light in the house burning and a flashlight handy for backup. Duality is the order of the day; the interplay of darkness and light, good and evil, truth and lies, fantasy and reality is breathtakingly jarring when the currents rise to the surface and hauntingly sinister in calmer moments. It is pointless to speculate whither good or evil, darkness or light will win in The Lie - the power of the narrative lies in its portrayal of the never-ending struggle between opposing forces.
The Lie by Ashley Fontainne is a one-of-a-kind spiritual thriller that defies categorization; like all the best stories, it exists beyond the scope of our slack-jawed wonder.
