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The Last Safe Place: A Psychological Thriller Kindle Edition

by Ninie Hammon (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 7,033 ratings
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Sorceress of psychological suspense, Ninie Hammon brings you The Last Safe Place — a psychological roller-coaster ride of a book that you won’t want to put down before you hit the final page.

Her stalker. Her demon. Her creation...

Gabriella thinks nothing of the dark creature she fashioned at the heart of her new horror novel—until it turns up at a book signing.

At first, she laughs off the deranged fan with the pretty face who informs her that he is the true king of demons.

But she doesn't laugh long.

Soon enough, Gabriella is in a desperate race to save her family from a stalker with limitless resources and a zealot's resolve to fulfill the promise of her book, right down to its gruesome conclusion.

Her only refuge is an old family hideaway high in the mountains. But the cabin isn't the safe place she imagines. It harbors secrets of its own.

Secrets at the heart of the evil pursuing her.

Secrets her family has long buried.

Secrets she must unravel before all their lives collide in a final, apocalyptic celebration of one man's madness.

What readers are saying about The Last Safe Place:

★★★★★ “The suspense kept me turning page after page--I sat up until 3 in the morning trying to devour the whole book, fell asleep with my Kindle in my lap as I sat up in bed." -- Sheila LS

★★★★★ “I have a confession to make - I am totally enamored with Ninie Hammon. Don't tell my wife, she wouldn't understand but anyone who has read her book(s) would. Anyone who has entered into the world where Princess (5 Days In May) lives would get it; anyone who has felt the pain of Anne (The Memory Closet) would understand and anyone who has walked in the footsteps of Gabriella (The Last Safe Place) knows what I'm talking about." -- The Old Guy

★★★★★ “Realistic struggles combined with a touch of the supernatural make this a "read through the night" book... I've never read books by this author before, but have now purchased two more of her books that are presently awaiting my attention. Enjoy!" -- debbie

★★★★★ “Gripping from page one. The story grabs you and takes you on an exhilarating thrill of a ride. The monster from the pages of fiction come to life to haunt the writer, by showing up in her life and menacing her and her family... This is a book for the weekend, if you start it, you won't stop until you finish it." -- Dubbia

If you enjoy Dean Koontz and Stephen King, you'll love this riveting tale of growing terror that will stay with you long after the shocking surprise ending.

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           Two years ago, I stood with a cold wind whipping my hair into my face, staring out at the Arkansas River Valley from the peak of Mount Princeton in the Colorado Rockies. The view takes your breath away.  From 14,000 feet, you can see the whole valley and the mountain range on the other side of it .          But the real show that day was on Mount Antero, another 14,000-footer to the north of Mount Princeton. A sudden summer storm had blown up out of nowhere and was attacking the craggy peak. Clouds the color of a gun barrel hurried across the sky and gathered around the mountain. Lightning bolts rained down out of them onto the peak like a hail of burning arrows.           I pushed through a stand of bent and twisted trees to get a better look, didn't know until later that I had watched the grandeur of the storm from a grove of bristlecone pine trees. A sign on the door of the weathered chalet below the peak of Mt. Princeton said the trees were a protected species, the oldest living things on earth. Some of them had been on that mountainside for more than 4,000 years.           Why, some of those very trees had been alive when Jesus walked the earth, I thought.          What if ...?          And a story was born.

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Gabriella had been pretty once, before her husband threw acid in her face.
Ty had been a happy little boy once, before he did something utterly unforgivable. Pedro had been a distracted parent once--just that one time! Now he carries a staggering burden of guilt for an unthinkable crime. But Yesheb ....? No, Yesheb could never have been anyone or anything other than who he is. His fate was sealed for him before he ever drew a breath, in the womb--when the doctors say he ate his twin brother. Put all these flawed, wounded people together, add terror, mystery, a 14,000-foot mountain, lightning, and a 2,000-year-old tree with "unexplainable" power. And that's The Last Safe Place

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00KUIE7A6
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sterling & Stone (June 7, 2014)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 7, 2014
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3789 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 357 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 7,033 ratings

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Ninie Hammon

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Ninie Hammon (rhymes with shiny, not skinny) grew up in Muleshoe, Texas, got a BA in English and theatre from Texas Tech University and snagged a job as a newspaper reporter. She didn't know a thing about journalism, but her editor said if she could write he could teach her the rest of it and if she couldn't write the rest of it didn't matter. She hung in there for a 25-year career as a journalist. As soon as she figured out that making up the facts was a whole lot more fun than reporting them, she turned to fiction and never looked back.

Ninie now writes suspense--every flavor except pistachio: psychological suspense, inspirational suspense, suspense thrillers, paranormal suspense, suspense mysteries.

In every book she keeps this promise to her Loyal Reader: "I will tell you a story in a distinctive voice you'll always recognize, about people as ordinary as you are--people who have been slammed by something they didn’t sign on for, and now they must fight for their lives. Then smack in the middle of their everyday worlds, those people encounter the unexplainable--and it's always the game-changer."

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Firefly Girl
5.0 out of 5 stars Grabs you and doesn't let go!
Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2014
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From the first page to the last, The Last Safe Place grabs you by the throat and doesn't let go. There's no beating around the bush with Ms. Hammon's books, her style is fast-paced and cut to bare bones.

My goal isn't to fill in all the details of the novel, but to let other readers know this is a well-written book and if you enjoy suspenseful reads, this title won't disappoint. Ms. Hammon's strength is characterization and each of her characters is uniquely flawed with a heavy dose of intrigue. However, in each of her books she flops a plot twist in the middle of your lap that you never see coming. I enjoy a jaw-dropping twist and The Last Safe Place delivers.

Yesheb, the villain in this book believes he is the demon in fantasy writer Gabriella's novel, and is destined to take her as his bride, fulfill an unholy union with her, sacrifice her son and rule the world. He is as deranged a stalker as they come. And creepy. Mighty creepy. Aren't most psychopaths? It's cool how she's woven a very real fear most of us harbor--that of something fictional becoming a reality.

Got chills yet? Have no fear. You will. Starts in the first paragraph. I lied. The first sentence. Ms Hammon is one of my favorite authors and The Last Safe Place is my second favorite so far of hers. I don't think any of her books will usurp Five Days in May. That novel ROCKS!
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Ami A.
4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!
Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2024
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The Last Safe Place is intense and filled with action and drama. I love the protagonist and hate the antagonist, just the way it’s supposed to be in a great psychological thriller. There are many surprises and even a touch of romance included. This is the first book I’ve read by the very talented Nintendo Hammon but, it won’t be the last. I highly recommend it.
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Sheila LS
5.0 out of 5 stars Thought It Was a Paranormal Story at First.
Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2015
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When I first started reading this story I thought that this was going to be a paranormal story--but the longer I read it, I realized that the bad guy was schizophrenic with delusions of grandeur. And as with a lot of schizophrenias, he heard voices. Being a billionaire helped him to keep these delusions alive. You are not limited to what you want to do when you have that much money--the sky is practically the only limit.

Even though this story was graphic at times, the most I was bothered was by a part of the story that involved Yesheb and animals when he was young--that part made me sick.

That being said, I loved all the main characters in the story. Especially Theo, the grandfather. Theo was very loyal and stuck with his family, no matter how scared he might have been. Several times he could have gone off by himself but he would not agree to anything but going wherever his family went. Theo had a secret that he did not tell his family until the end. He loved his grandson and wanted to spend as much time with him as he could because of the secrete that he kept. He also wanted to make sure his grandson was protected from harm because if it had been left up to Yesheb the villain, his grandson would not have lived to manhood. Speaking of secretes, it seemed everyone in the story had a secrete, including Ty, the grandson and Gabrielle the main character. Most of the secretes comes out toward the end of the story.

The suspense kept me turning page after page--I sat up until 3 in the morning trying to devour the whole book, fell asleep with my Kindle in my lap as I sat up in bed. I did not want to stop reading until I finished the book. I loved the ending, Yesheb got it exactly as I thought he was going to get it--a fitting end. I have no idea why some people thought this had a cliffhanging ending because I thought it had a satisfying conclusion myself. This was the second book I read by Ninie Hammon and I plan on reading more of her books. I just recently bought her non-fiction book, "God Said Yes", and I can't wait to read it.
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Glen Robins
3.0 out of 5 stars Mixed feelings
Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2016
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Yes, my feelings about this book are mixed. I hate to be negative, so I will point out what I liked and what I didn't.

I really liked the beginning. Ms. Hammon does a great job of "setting the hook" in the first chapter. She also does a great job of describing the scenes and helping the reader to visualize the settings she puts the characters in. The characters are, for the most part, interesting and the story had some real potential to be a powerful, psychological thriller.

Here's what I didn't like - the story dragged for hundreds of pages in the middle while the author spent way too much time building the backstory for each character in painful detail. It was too wordy, too much information. Sometimes we, the readers, do better using our own imaginations to fill in some gaps and create some intrigue. The storyline really wallows through each character's backstory while she paints it out through internal monologue. In other words, we spend way too much time inside the heads of the characters instead of watching the action unfold. And, because she changes points of view often, there is quite a bit of overlap and redundancy. I got frustrated with the slow pacing and the constant pauses while we trudged through each character's past. The storyline and plot got lost to some extent in all of the rehashing of memories. I also felt like there were some elements that could have been better developed had it not been for the volume of words and pages used to give so many life stories.

All in all, it was an OK read and certainly worth the price I paid (free).
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A. Linton
5.0 out of 5 stars Another stunning novel by Ninie Hammond
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 31, 2018
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So delighted to have found a great new author on KU for free. That will save me a shedload of money and keep me happy for a week or so! This novel starts out right in the thick of the action - a woman wakes up terrified suddenly aware that the maniac who has been stalking her has broken into her home - and from then on the tension really doesn't let up. What I love about Hammond's books is that you really relate to her characters and at the same time fear the worst - there is no feeling that everything will work out in the end in fact at times it seems impossible that it will. A writer who knows how to tell a gripping yarn and keep her readers engrossed the whole way through.
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Deepika verma
5.0 out of 5 stars Nice story and narration
Reviewed in India on January 11, 2017
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The story is well thought-out and even better executed with sophisticated narration. The ending was a bit hush hush though, but loved the book. Immensely gripping and paints a picture. Would love to see a sequel to this one, if the author ever decides to write one.
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Anne-Louise
5.0 out of 5 stars Great read
Reviewed in Australia on May 4, 2018
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Kept me turning pages in suspense. Well written inspires me yo read more of this authors books. Could not put it down
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Yvette
5.0 out of 5 stars A great book
Reviewed in Italy on June 29, 2015
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Great writing and plot. The character Grandpa Slappy was so witty that I was laughing out loud. In each situation, I had a vivid picture in my mind of the time and place of events. What can I say? Ninie Hammon is a really gifted writer.
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Halibut Queen
5.0 out of 5 stars An incredibly good book
Reviewed in Canada on November 23, 2013
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Ninie Hammon has a unique ability to bring a scene to life. She is a wizard with words. The Last Safe Place takes you deep into the life and thoughts of the characters. This is a hard to put down thriller with a touch of romance. It is a book where the characters not only deal with actions of a demonic stalker, but they deal with their own inner demons. Each of the main characters has some need of redemption: some need for freedom from the past and new life for the future.
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