Book Blurb:
Nine years ago, Archaeologist Maren Hudson lost everything when
a member of her team was killed during a routine dive. Now she’s been drawn
back to Mexico and the career she walked away from in order to protect the most
precious thing in the world: her daughter.
One desperate phone call
brings salvage expert Thad Leighton back to Mexico. For his murdered brother,
he’s ready to settle the score, but one look at Maren and everything changes.
Years may have passed, but she’s still as mesmerizing as she once was, and a
few days on site together have him questioning his priorities and why the hell
he walked away from her so long ago.
Sparks between them
reignite, but Thad knows Maren is holding something back. Thrust together in
the middle of the sweltering Yucatan, Thad is more than willing to strip away
her layers. But while the truth might offer the second chance he’s
been searching for, forgiveness may be as elusive as the relic they’re both
hunting. Because when Thad unearths Maren’s biggest secret and discovers who
she’s really working for, suddenly it’s not just about a life that was stolen from
both of them, it’s about staying alive and outwitting a madman who will stop at
nothing to get what he wants.
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Author Bio
I was never one of those people who knew they wanted to be an
author at the age of six. I didn’t have imaginary friends. I didn’t write
stories in my journal or entertain my relatives by firelight after Thanksgiving
dinner. For the most part, I was just a normal, everyday kid. I liked to read,
but I wasn’t exceptional at it. And when my teachers complimented me on my
writing abilities, I brushed them off. I did, however, always have a penchant
for the unique and absurd. And as my mother told me all throughout my
childhood, I should have been an actress—I was a drama queen before my time.
Years ago,
my husband bought me Scarlett: The Sequel to Gone With The
Wind. If you ever saw the book, you know it’s a long one. I sat and
read that thing from cover to cover, and dreamed of one day being a writer. But
I didn’t actually try my hand at writing until years later when I quit my
teaching job to stay home with my kids. And my husband? After that week of
reading where I neglected him and everything else until I finished Scarlett, he vowed never to buy me another book again.
Little did he know I’d one day end up sitting at a keyboard all day drafting my
own stories.
My writing
journey has not been easy. I didn’t just sit down one day, decide I was going
to write a book and voila! sell
my very first attempt. As most authors will probably agree, the path to
publication is filled with hours of work, pulling all-nighters I thought I’d
given up in college, sacrifices, rejections, but a love I discovered along the
way I just can’t live without. Instead of a big, thick book to read by
lamplight (I do read much smaller ones when I get the chance), I’ve traded in
my reading obsession for a laptop. And I’ve never been happier.
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