“Low Pressure” by Sandra Brown – Bloody Storms
Low Pressure by Sandra Brown tells the story of Bellamy Lyston, who at the age of twelve witnessed her older sister Susan being killed on Memorial Day during a very stormy night. The shocking events, coupled with Bellamy’s fear of storms, contributed to partially erasing her memory and modifying her memory of what happened on that day; the best she can manage to remember are brief, fractured and seemingly senseless flashbacks. Now being a woman of thirty years of age, Bellamy decides to write a book chronicling her experience on that night. To protect her family’s identity from rabid fans and the media, she used pseudonyms. However, a sneaky tabloid reporter soon figures everything out, and of course exposes the family’s identity in relation to the book, bringing down a media scandal upon them.