Thanks
for inviting me to Dawn’s Reading Nook. It’s always a pleasure to share one of
my books with your readers. Today I’m spotlighting A Burning Truth which is
the second novel in the Cady Delafield romantic suspense series. Here’s what
it’s about.
Blurb:
In
1881, the air in Chicago is rife with worker discontent, yet business titan
Doyle Flanagan is hopeful for the future. He looks forward to a lifetime of
peaceful bliss with Cady Delafield and leaving the wretched past behind. But
his life is once again thrown into disarray when his office is vandalized and
the night watchman viciously murdered. Clues lead to a powerful organized labor
movement. Targeted in the press as anti-labor and with a big rally staged next
door to his offices, Doyle must uncover the culprits before his wedding plans
and his livelihood go up in smoke.
Plagued
by memories of four brutal deaths, school director Cady Delafield is determined
to drive the recent tragedies from her mind and enjoy being courted. Although his commanding personality threatens
to overshadow her, Doyle Flanagan is the most dynamic man she’s ever met. When
another tragedy unfolds placing him at the center, she takes action—action that
could shatter her future dreams.
Excerpt:
Doyle sat in the carriage, his brain frozen and
his limbs unable to move. He watched Cady run up the steps and disappear into
Ophelia’s impenetrable stone manor. When the front door boomed shut with the
noise of a cannon blast, he jumped. He lurched forward and exploded out of the
vehicle. She wasn’t getting rid of him so easily. In fact, she wasn’t getting
rid of him at all. He had a voice in the matter. He intended to be heard.
Just as soon as he thought it, his steps faltered
and he ground to a stop.
“Damn!”
Now was not the time to try to reason with her,
not when she was in a cold fury. He pumped a fist against a thigh and stared at
the mansion’s rock façade, aware her current state of mind was as solid and
unshakable. Even if he managed to get beyond the front door, she wouldn’t listen.
Not now.
His head fell back. A piercing ache tore through
him, as if his heart and soul had been shredded and tossed aside. Gunmetal
storm clouds reeled over the sky, bleak and threatening. The bite in the air
made his cheeks sting. Inside he was hollowed and gutted. His fingers curled
and uncurled. Muscles coiled, he pivoted with a fierce twist, snapped an order
to Phelps then threw himself back into the carriage. His next move must be
deployed with utmost care. The carriage jolted forward and thrust him back
against the seat cushion. She needed time to cool. Then he’d be back, and she’d
listen to what he had to say.
Bio:
Joyce
grew up in Minnesota and attended college and grad school in Chicago. After
working in mental health as a clinical social worker, she retired to write
full-time. Her first book, Eliza, was
published in 2012. A Burning Truth is the second in the Cady
Delafield series. When she isn’t writing mystery and romance novels, she loves
to travel, winter in Florida, swim, read and walks daily.
Chocolate ranks almost as high on her list of favorites as crossword puzzles. She
and her husband make their home in rural Minnesota in her very own little house
on the prairie.
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A Burning Truth, along with my other
books, is published by Champagne Books.
Buy
links: http://www.champagnebooks.com
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