Welcome to the Blog + Review Tour for Cast the First Stone by David James Warren, hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours!
ABOUT THE BOOK
From the creative pens of USA Today bestselling author Susan May Warren, award-winning author James L. Rubart, and new voice, David Curtis Warren, writing collectively as David James Warren.
Title: Cast the First Stone
Series: The True Lies of Rembrandt Stone #1
Author: David James Warren
Publisher: TriStone Media
Release Date: February 8, 2021
Genre: Time Travel Detective Series One case haunts him. One chance to fix the past. One mistake could cost him everything.
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EXCERPT
The door opens, and I’m sized up by an elderly gentlemen, so thin his bones protrude from a lined, saggy face. Fraying white hair, gnarled hands, but his eyes bore through me as if, once up on a time, he was somebody that understood what trouble looked like.
Or maybe that’s just the bars on the door telling his story. Still, my instincts kick in and give me the weirdest sense that I’ve just walked into my destiny.
“Yes?”
I can’t tell if he’s annoyed or intrigued, so I offer my name, adding, “I was sent here by the Vintage Watch shop guy in Uptown.”
He frowns.
“I was hoping…” I pull out the watch.
He stretches out a hand, through the bars, and I hesitate only a moment before dropping it into his grip.
He comes alive as he runs his thumb over the inscription, not unlike I’ve found myself doing. He fiddles with the dial, then with a quickness that startles me, shuts the door.
What—?
“Hey!” I grab the bars, knock on the door, but it’s locked. I lay on the doorbell. “Give
me my watch back!”
I’m debating circling around the back when the door pops open and Grandpa is back, holding my watch, a stethoscope hanging from his ears.
Seriously?
He’s listening to the watch as if it might have a heartbeat. I stand there awkwardly, waiting for the prognosis.
This is stupid.
But when he hands the watch back to me, I’m oddly hopeful. Until, “There’s nothing wrong with the watch.”
Here we go again. “What are you talking about? It doesn’t work, see?” I do a demonstration for him, winding the dial, holding it up so he can see the dead-in-their- tracks hands. “Nothing moves.”
Grandpa has removed his stethoscope, draping it around his neck. He looks at me with a sort of shake of his head. “The watch is working exactly as it is intended. Didn’t anyone show you how to use it?”
I blink at the old man. “No. Actually, I sort of inherited it.”
One untrimmed eyebrow goes up. “Certainly you’ve seen it used.”
This rocks me back. “Of course. It was…well, my boss had it, and he gave it to me when he died. But he wore it for years.”
This has elicited a response, something of understanding because Grandpa is
nodding. “I see.”
“But I don’t!”
“Just use it like you saw him use it, and it will do its job.” “It doesn’t work! It’s job is to tell the freakin’ time!”
“You are not wrong.” And with that Grandpa closes the door.
Leaving me to stand on the steps in hot sun.
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