Saturday, September 28, 2019

Snippet Sunday and Weekend Writing Warriors: Never Trust a Pretty Wolf

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For the last few months I've been sharing excerpts from Turnaround Farm, but today I'm sharing from another book, Never Trust a Pretty Wolf. We'll begin with Chapter One.

Blurb:
Liesel Wolf has a secret, a dangerous secret she’ll go to any lengths to conceal. When she’s paired in a charity game with sexy marshal Andy Bryce, a man with secrets of his own, her carefully constructed world comes crashing down, and Liesel’s on a collision course with her past.

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Last week:
“Maybe so.” Andy blew on his coffee again and took another small sip. Now that it had cooled a bit he thought Tony hadn’t put in enough sugar. “I guess people get pretty creative when they hide their caches.”

Tony spooned a little more sugar into his own coffee. “I have a buddy who geocaches with his family. The last cache they found was hidden halfway up a sheer rock wall.”

“How’d they get to it?” Andy wondered.

“Ben’s a rock climber.”

Andy had met Ben and didn’t like him, so he passed over this reference. 


Excerpt

“How does geocaching tie in with Melton’s game?”

 Every small town had its dignitaries, a title that Thomas Melton answered to in Shady Corners, the town where the Bryces lived. Melton had made his fortune back in the nineteen nineties when dot-­com stock sold for outrageous prices. Unlike many investors, he had foreseen the collapse of the market and gotten out in time to avoid the ruination that plagued many.
Tony propped his foot on the scarred coffee table in front of him. “Melton loves geocaching, so he hid a big cache worth a million dollars. The first team who finds the cache gets to donate the money to the charity of their choice.”

Andy gave a short laugh. “That’s ridiculous. Anybody who knows about geocaching will be looking for that cache, and a good many of them probably have no intention of giving the money to charity.”
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6 comments:

  1. Charmaine GordonSeptember 29, 2019 at 8:43 AM

    Very interesting, Elaine. Of course, most people would grab the money and run.

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  2. Veronica ScottSeptember 29, 2019 at 11:20 AM

    Hmmm, have to say I'm with Andy - in this day and age the chances are the million dollar prize would lure a lot of people who probably never supported a charity in their lives! But an interesting wrinkle...enjoyed the excerpt.

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  3. AnonymousSeptember 29, 2019 at 4:57 PM

    I assume this Melton chap set up some safeguards to insure the money goes to real, rather than merely personal, charity?

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  4. Teresa CypherSeptember 29, 2019 at 6:17 PM

    I'm sure he didn't hide the actual money--and that there's no way to get out of giving it to a charity. I think the rock climber is going to reappear in this story... ;-)

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  5. Diane BurtonSeptember 29, 2019 at 9:59 PM

    Enjoying this story, Elaine. I still think geocaching would be a lot of fun. That money is quite an incentive.

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  6. Nancy GideonSeptember 30, 2019 at 6:14 AM

    Nice set up! I foresee many delightful twists and turns ahead. Can't wait!

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