Black Willows by Jill Hand - Book Tour + Giveaway

“And then,” Palmer Trapnell told an architect named Chase Merriweather, “An alarm will sound, one of those that goes aoogah! aoogah! The room will start filling up with ice-cold water and everyone will have to swim to safety. What do you think of that?"
Merriweather
looked over Palmer’s shoulder to where her husband stood. Trainor Trapnell was
shaking his head and frantically waving his hands, as if to say, No way! That’s
insane!
“Well,”
the architect said cautiously. “It’s an interesting concept.”
“I
know! Escape rooms are popular right now. My friend Chandler Woodbury has one.
It’s at Lakeland Mall, between Razzle-Dazzle Doughnuts and Sweet and Sassy
Lingerie, where that store that sold things like blacklight posters and lava
lamps used to be. You have to find clues to figure out how to escape from a
room done up like a library in a spooky old mansion. This will be much better.”
Palmer
beamed complacently. Her sandy blonde hair was cut in an asymmetrical style
popularized by an actress with a starring role in a daytime television drama.
Palmer was a former dog groomer who had advanced several rungs up the social
ladder by marrying Trainor. With her bright pink lipstick and Lilly Pulitzer
twin set, she was the apotheosis of an affluent young Atlanta matron.
Palmer and Chandler Woodbury, ostensibly friends, were
locked in a mortal combat of one-upmanship. If Chandler had an escape room then
Palmer wanted a better one.
“But
the logistics,” Trainor said desperately. He drew up a chair and seated himself
next to his wife at the polished mahogany conference table in Merriweather’s
office. He spread his hands in mute appeal to the architect to put an end to
this nonsense. “That’s what they’re called, right? Logistics? Ways of doin’
things? You can’t fill up a room up with water and make people swim out. It’s
not safe. What if somebody drowns? And how do you empty the water out afterwards?
I don’t see it.”
He turned to
Palmer who had folded her arms across her chest and was pouting. “I’m sorry,
Chicken Legs, but I think it might be illegal.”
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