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Showing posts with label romantic suspense novel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label romantic suspense novel. Show all posts

Friday, February 21, 2014

Saturday Sample

My sample today is from Never Trust a Pretty Wolf. In this excerpt we see that my hero has something to hide.

Andy’s eyebrows shot up. He had given a brief introduction,
but Ms. Wolf really hadn’t introduced herself at all. Why not? Did
she have something to hide?

No, of course she didn’t. Maybe she hoped he’d take the hint
that she didn’t want to be his partner and withdraw from the game.
Well, if that’s what she wanted she’d better think again. Andy
Bryce wouldn’t quit because of a cold reception from a woman he
didn’t even know. She’d probably read in the papers about the…
Yeah, she probably knew. That would explain her coolness. He
took a deep breath and clasped his hands under the table to hide
their shaking.

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.

Never Trust a Pretty Wolf is available at Amazon, B&N and most other retail outlets.


Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Beyond the Book: Tables

Hello and welcome to Beyond the Book, your chance to connectwith the characters you've known and loved in Elaine's books. My name is Kathryn Sinclair, Elaine's heroine in Blue 52. Have you ever thought about dining tables?  Oh, I know, you set your plate on them, right? Of course you do, but if you think about it, tables are witness to all sorts of life dramas. On Sunday my entire family gathered together for a traditional Sunday dinner. I put a pretty retro styled tablecloth on the table, and we sat around for a long time talking after we finished our meal. What did we talk about? Something special: a lot of hopes and dreams for my granddaughter and her husband, college, and a new job for one family member.

Right before Christmas I covered the table with newspaper and plastic, and my family gathered to make make Christmas ornaments. Paint, glitter, and glue went everywhere. We still talk about how much fun we had.

Hank (hero Blue 52) and I sat around the table to plan our wedding. Not long ago Hank and I used our table when we hosted a Saturday night dinner where people got really loud and rowdy talking politics. (I know. I should have expected that. I married into a political family, right?)

Which of the tables pictured below is your favorite? If you're interested in my story, you can find Blue 52 at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Whiskey Creek Press.







Photo Credit:
By AgnosticPreachersKid (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
By Leo de Vos from id., The Netherlands (Stijlkamers van het Eysingahuis 01) [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Saturday, February 9, 2013

"Firsts" Blog Hop: First Place, First Kiss




  First Place.  That’s the only acceptable alternative. 

When Liesel Wolf is invited to compete in a charity game, she vows to win the million dollar prize for interstitial cystitis research.  Even though she’s a woman with secrets that should stay hidden, she agrees to geocache with handsome marshal Andy Bryce, a man with secrets of his own.

What’s geocaching? Geocaching is a game.  People hide caches around the world and post the coordinates online.  Liesel and Andy rush to be first to find the cache, but as the game progresses they find much more, including romance and cold-blooded killers.

Excerpt Never Trust a Pretty Wolf. 
In this excerpt, Andy and Liesel share a first kiss while running from men who tried to murder them.


 

They moved through the woods as silently as possible, flinching when a careless foot snapped a branch. After one such incident, Liesel’s nerves got the better of her. She propped her foot on a rock and jerked a small handgun from a holster that she wore under her pant leg.

Andy’s hand shot out. “Give me that gun,” he commanded.

“No.”

He took it from her with ease. “I don’t know why you have this,” he whispered, “but if we get out of here alive you have some explaining to do. Now, keep moving but stay in control. Remember, no headlong plunges into the woods.”

Fortyfive minutes later, they exited the woods near the bridge that crossed the little creek. Liesel fearfully scanned the inviting, familycentered area. I dont see anyone.

“Two o’clock. Men in khaki.” Andy came to a halt and jerked her against him. “Kiss me like you mean it.”

Liesel didn’t mind if she did. Hopefully the khaki men would never imagine that two lovers out for a stroll had only moments before been running for their very lives. She prayed the men didn’t get too good a look at them. Throwing her arms around him, she pressed her body against his.

She wouldn’t have admitted to it for anything, but in spite of the danger, she felt a thrill from the top of her head to the bottom of her feet. Nobody could kiss like Andy Bryce!

Andy took her hand, and they strolled casually across the bridge as if they’d been on a leisurely little walk. He kissed her again before they got into the Mustang. The minute they got in, he put the car in gear and slowly made his way out of the park.


“Now, Liesel,” he said. “Why don’t you tell me why those men are trying to kill you?”

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Never Trust a Pretty Wolf is available at http://www.astraeapress.com, at Amazon and Barnes and Noble, and at most other major retail outlets.

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