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What do you get when you mix a
snake-handling reverend, a necrophiliac, a cop and an ex-con? Something
perfectly twisted…
Sound like the start of a bad joke?
Not to Shane Monahan. The ex-con and newest recruit to the underground criminal
investigation group, A.T.L. or Above the Law, has it bad for Collier County
Deputy Beth Price. But ex-cons and cops don’t mix, especially when this
particular ex-con is looking at going back to prison for his involvement with
A.T.L.
All Beth wants is a fun distraction
from the stress of her job and law school. She thinks she's found that when she
meets Shane during an airboat tour through the Florida Everglades. But Shane’s
a felon, a man who could destroy her career as a deputy, and jeopardize her
future as an attorney. She doesn’t know what to do—until dead bodies start
showing up around the county.
When three abused corpses are found
with snake remains inside them, the discovery brings a murderer out of retirement.
The Reverend, as he calls himself, doesn’t like his kills being mimicked,
especially by a man who abuses the dead—after all, the Reverend does have a
reputation to uphold and a congregation to scam. Now it’s time to teach his
copycat a deadly lesson…
Excerpt:
Before
Vlad dug himself into a deep hole, Shane touched Beth’s arm and motioned toward
the wooden ramp leading to the dock. “Don’t mind Vlad,” he said, once they’d distanced themselves from the Russian.
“It’s
kind of hard not to when the man said that you’d like to kiss me on the boat.”
“That’s
not what he said.”
She
stopped when they reached the dock. “That’s what I heard.”
Damn
it. He was going to have to have a serious conversation with his brother
about Vlad. “I apologize if Vlad made
you uncomfortable. I never told him I wanted to kiss you. Vlad has a thing for
the Kiss song Beth. He also does this weird thing with peoples’ names. He calls
my brother Captain Ryan, and my future sister-in-law Asian Lola.”
“Why
does he call her that?”
“Because
she’s Asian.”
Beth
laughed. “Isn’t Vlad the master of the obvious? I love it. Okay, so Vlad
nicknamed me Kiss Beth and you don’t want to kiss me. Gotcha.”
“I
didn’t say that.” Smooth, Monahan. Screw it. He wanted to see her away from the
boat shop, take her out to dinner, find out more about her and, yes, kiss her.
When
her lips tilted in a sexy smile, he relaxed. She turned and climbed onto the
airboat, then settled on the cushioned bench seat. “For the record, I wouldn’t
turn down a kiss from you,” she said, and reached for the headphones used to
block the loud sound of the airboat.
Maybe
not right now, but once Beth found out about his past, she would probably run
in the other direction. What woman would want to kiss a convicted murderer?
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Although Kristine has
published a few contemporary romance novels, she focuses most of her energy on
her romantic suspense stories, which she loves for their blend of dark
mystery/suspense and sexy romance. She is fascinated with what makes people
afraid, and is famous for her depraved villains whose crimes present massive
obstacles for her heroes and heroines to overcome.
Kristine has a degree in
journalism from Ohio State University Northeast Ohio with her husband, four kids, and two dogs. If she’s
not writing, she’s chauffeuring kids, gardening, or collecting gnomes. Oh, and
she makes a mean chocolate chip cookie!
Connect with Kristine on
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at http://www.kristinemason.net
9 comments:
Thanks for hosting!
Do you let the book stew – leave it for a month and then come back to it to edit?
I have enjoyed learning about the book. Thanks for sharing it.
Love the excerpt and the entire post! Thank you for sharing!
This really sounds like a unique story.
Thanks, MomJane! It is rather twisted ;-)
Thank you, Betty!
Hi Mai! There's no stewing with me. With my larger CORE books, by the time I finish writing them, then go back to read/edit from the beginning, the chapters are fresh and I'm anxious to read them. When I turn the book in to my editor, I usually have two weeks before she returns it back to me. Those two weeks could be considered a "stew" time. At that point I'm already beginning a new book. By the time I get the book back and read through it, it's once again fresh to me. Thanks for asking!
Thanks for featuring my book, Dawn!!
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