The Tryst

The Red Thread Saga, Book One

A moment in time… insignificant and fleeting for most, but for Nicole, Mark, and Eric, it is life-altering. Three strangers meet in a town they don’t know in a place they hadn’t expected to end up only to find that they are exactly where they were supposed to be… again.

Love always finds a way.

Through space and time, past and future, through lifetimes and storylines they were destined to find each other, love each other, lose each other – coordinates and weapons, scenarios and demographics be damned. A malfunction, to be sure. But when Ryan tries to tinker with his project, a weapon the likes of which has never been seen in all of the Galactic Collaborative, he finds out just how inexorable their link is… and how insidious.

The first book of a slipstream series that will challenge the way you think about love, life, connection, and purpose, The Tryst will catch you in its whirlwind and never let you go. Each book in The Red Thread Saga will combine of mixture of urban fantasy, mystery, thriller, psychological horror, action, suspense, science fiction elements in differing measures, always with romance as an undercurrent.

Love always finds a way.

But sometimes that way is paved with bones.

What People are Saying About The Tryst:

“L. Marie Wood’s haunting vision of the human journey through life/death and everything in between delivers riveting work that fascinates and thrills.”
Linda D. Addison, HWA Lifetime Achievement Award recipient and SFPA Grand Master

“L. Marie Wood crafts psychological horror you can’t put down.”
John Edward Lawson, author, Bibliophobia

“The Tryst has such a powerful undertone of not only romance, but it blended so well with the horror elements of the story that you were drawn in completely. L. Marie Wood weaves a tale of three people who drawn together to form something so powerful that the love and loss was palpable. Fate, a journey of self discovery, more? Each reader will take away some element from The Tryst that is different and memorable. But one thing is clear, L. Marie Wood leaves you breathless until the very last page is turned….”

– Dahlia Rose, USA Today Bestselling Author

“This book has it all. Love, suspense, mystery, and it’s a thriller of a story. Through everything, the love between Nicole, Mark, and Eric finds its way. L. Marie Wood is truly an artist at crafting an intriguing story, adding just the right amount of
romance and horror.

-Cindy O’Quinn – four-time HWA Bram Stoker nominated writer. Rhysling and Dwarf Star nominated poet.

“The Tryst might be the weirdest book I ever read, and that’s absolutely a compliment. This heartfelt and intelligent three-way romance engages exactly the conversations we’re all having about technology and humanity in 2025. The characters are relatable and specific, and they react to one another and their situation the way real people with healthy self-esteem and empathy would react. We fall in love with them as they fall for one another. Then the science fiction twist kicks in and makes this story something more and better and completely new—Blade Runner meets Anais Nin. The same insight that makes horror writer, poet, and critic L. Marie Wood able to put characters through the most horrific events imaginable and describe their reactions in a realistic way serves her well in creating a romantic and sexual relationship between three fascinating equals, even when their world turns into something neither they nor we the reader could ever have expected.”

– Lucy Blue, Author of The Devil Makes Three

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