Another excerpt today, this time from a new romantic suspense, "Dangerous Affairs" by Diana Miller (is it just me or does she look like actress Shelley Long?). When she was eight, 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.
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Dangerous Affairs
Author: Diana Miller
Publisher: Montlake Romance
ASIN: B0089NUE8I
Format: Kindle, paperback
Genre: Romance, Mystery
Length: 536 KB, 356 pages
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Buying Link: Amazon Barnes & Noble The Book Depository
Book Blurb (from author): 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
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