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.
Excerpt
Abby
rolled back the carpet, exposing the stain. “What do you think? Is this blood
or just paint?”
Josh
squatted beside the stain and studied it for several seconds, scratching it
with his fingernail. Then he rolled the carpet back over the stain and stood.
“Have you ripped up the carpet in the rest of the bedrooms?”
“I
started here. This carpet’s the ugliest,” Abby said. “I also spend a lot of
time writing in here.” None of that was a lie.
He
nodded slowly. “So yesterday you pulled out a door, vacuumed behind it, and
found a knife flecked with what could be blood. Then this morning you decide to
rip up the carpet in one bedroom and coincidentally find more blood?”
It
did sound a little fantastic, but Abby certainly wasn’t telling him about the
dream. “You think I dumped it there myself?”
“Makes
it seem more like you’ve got a mystery in your own house, doesn’t it? It looks
like paint to me, but I guess it could be real blood. I’m sure it’s easy to buy
the stuff in LA.”
She
threw up her hands. “Do you honestly think I brought blood out here with me?
Just stuck it in a carton with my dishes and had the movers load it up?”
“Or
you could have ordered it on the Internet.”
“Or
stolen it from the Red Cross. Look, I didn’t pretend to find the knife for
publicity, and I didn’t plant this stain for publicity. I told you, I don’t
want any more publicity.”
When
Josh didn’t respond, Abby massaged her temples and concentrated on taking
calming breaths. If she’d been able to hold her tongue the entire six weeks
Vanessa Mason had guest starred on Private Affairs, she could do it now. “I was
simply trying to do my civic duty by reporting it.”
“Next
time don’t bother.”
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
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Dangerous Affairs sounds like a very exciting read.
ReplyDeleteKit3247(at)aol(dot)com
I really love the sound of DANGEROUS AFFAIRS but I think if I started having visions like this I would leave the house immediately, possibly going quickly to the nearest sanitarium and requesting lots of strong drugs, lol. It really does sound like a great suspense story. Best of luck with it.
ReplyDeletemanning_J2004 at yahoo dot com
Sounds like a scary and interesting book. I would need my husband to be home before it got dark every day if I was having creepy dreams like that. I also wanted to be Nancy Drew when I was a kid, we would make up stories about the neighbors and then solve the mysteries.
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