Dangerous Affairs
by Diana Miller
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BLURB:
When soap opera star Abby Langford leaves Los Angeles for her Minnesota
hometown, she’s hoping to give her nine-year-old daughter the peaceful
childhood she never knew. But instead of tranquility, Abby finds an old knife
hidden between the walls of her new house. Then the nightmares start: a
blood-soaked victim and a killer’s arm slicing through the air, again and
again.
Abby
wonders if she’s having the nervous breakdown the tabloids claim she already
had, especially when sexy, skeptical police chief Josh Kincaid questions her
story. When menacing hate mail arrives, Josh’s professional concern for Abby
soon evolves into an intense attraction, and the feeling is mutual. And now
Josh wonders if her psychic visions are of crimes past—or a premonition of
terrors to come.
To
survive, Abby and Josh must uncover the truth and stop a killer . . . before
Abby’s worst nightmares come true.
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Excerpt:
The
doorbell rang, shooting a fresh blast of cold panic through Abby. She opened
her mouth, but swallowed her scream—it had to be the police. Bad guys didn’t
use doorbells. She unlocked and opened the front door with frozen fingers.
Josh
was standing on the front porch, dressed in black jeans and a burgundy polo
shirt, his hand on the doorjamb and his eyes narrowed. “What’s such a damn
emergency?”
“I got another message. From the
person who hates me.”
Josh
expelled a clearly exasperated breath, running his fingers through his dark
hair. “Look, I know I told you to take the letters seriously, but since the
mail carrier delivered it hours ago, this isn’t exactly an emergency. Bring it
to the station tomorrow. I’d like to get back to my date.”
“It
didn’t come in the mail this time.” Abby’s voice rose an octave, her words
tripping over each other. “It’s on my bathroom mirror, written in lipstick.
Someone got into my house, and they could get in again.” She sounded half
hysterical, but she couldn’t help it. This was in a different category from her
normal hate mail.
Josh stepped into the house, closing
the door behind him. “You were gone tonight?”
She slumped against one wall of the
foyer, hugging herself and struggling to regain her control.
“Maddie
and I were at a birthday party for Laura’s youngest son. At Pizzaville. We got
home around nine thirty, and I put Maddie to bed. I read in the family room for
a while, then went back upstairs. And found it.”
“Show me.” Josh grabbed her forearm
and directed her up the stairs.
The
message was short and to the point, capital letters written in red lipstick on
the wall-size mirror:
LEAVE OR DIE BITCH. FROM YOUR
BIGGEST FAN
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
When she was eight, Diana
Miller decided she wanted to be Nancy Drew. But no matter how many garbage cans
she dug through, conversations she “accidentally” overheard, and attics she
searched, she never found a single cryptic letter, hidden staircase, or
anything else even remotely mysterious. She worked as a lawyer, a soda jerk, a
stay-at-home mom, a hospital admitting clerk, and a conference host before
deciding that the best way to inject suspense into her otherwise satisfying
life was by writing about it.
Diana is a five-time nominee
for the Romance Writers of America Golden Heart Award and winner of a Golden
Heart for Dangerous Affairs—a romantic suspense novel that shows not everyone
in her home state is Minnesota Nice. She lives in the Twin Cities with her
family.
My website link is
dianamillerwriter.com. I have buy buttons for both Amazon and Kindle on my
website, but have no idea what you have to do to insert them since my web
designer did it.
The URL for my Amazon
page is:
http://www.amazon.com/Dangerous-Affairs-Diana-Miller/dp/1612186017/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1339532353&sr=8-1
The
author will be awarding one $25 Amazon GC to a randomly drawn commenter during
the tour.
3 comments:
Sandra,
I’m thrilled that you’re featuring my debut novel DANGEROUS AFFAIRS today on your blog (which is beautiful, BTW). Thanks so much.
I’ll check back later to answer any questions.
Again, thanks for hosting me. I really appreciate it!
My pleasure. Good luck.
Diana, I like this premise.
Ingeborg, thanks for stopping by and supporting, Diana.
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