It’s a delight to be able to share my news with you, Paty. I
just released the third romantic thriller in The Edge of Texas series. BAD
VIBES, picks up right where BAD
KARMA ends and the heroine is the character my readers most wanted to be
featured in her own book.
My inspiration for this series was actually the setting. I
used to race catamarans, and South Padre Island was one of the favorite spots
for regattas and also a great place to get away with my family for a weekend of
fun sailing. South Padre Island is about 25 miles north of the Mexican border
on the lower Texas Gulf coast. It’s a beautiful semi-tropical resort separated
from the mainland and the small coastal village of Port Isabel by the
two-and-a-half mile Queen Isabella Causeway spanning the Intracoastal Waterway.
So my series is filled with exciting water chases, drug-running and other
illegal activities all battled by my hero, Rafael Solis, the sheriff and his
team of deputies.
BAD
MEDICINE was the first of THE EDGE OF TEXAS romantic thrillers and it’s FREE
today. I hope everyone has a chance to download it.
BAD VIBES Blurb:
When government agent Mike “The
Iceman” Burke invades her South Padre Island turf, Deputy Darla Calhoun is
assigned as liaison officer to his team. Her skills as a sniper come in handy
when a gang of human traffickers strikes close to home, kidnapping local women
including her best friend. Darla is recovering from her husband’s suicide and
trying to be a good parent to her twin sons. The ICE assignment takes her out
of her misery and plunges her into a dangerous mission and a steamy affair.
Mike and Darla tear up and down the Intracoastal Waterway in search of the
kidnappers and the captive women while Rafael and Javier conduct their own
investigation. Will they rescue the captive women or will the kidnappers
slaughter them as they have done in the past? Two teams race to find the
answers before it's too late.
In this excerpt of BAD VIBES, Darla is on the agent’s boat, The Long Shot, and Mike, the team leader
has questioned whether she can be relied upon if they discover that the
criminals are someone she knows. Mike has been in the field too long and always
manages to put his foot in his mouth with Darla.
EXCERPT:
Darla had withdrawn.
Mike knew he’d been hard on her, but she was the new guy. He had to be
sure he could depend on her if the bullets started flying.
Damn! The whole problem with working with women is that they’re women. He figured that the next thing she’d do was
turn on the tears.
Freddy was giving him a hard look.
“Okay, okay,” he murmured, getting to his feet.
She had gone to the front of the boat, settling on a built-in seat with
storage below. She didn’t look up when he neared.
Mike lowered himself onto the cushion beside her. “I hope I didn’t hurt
your feelings back there.”
She looked up at him. One side of her mouth lifted in a smirk. “Don’t
flatter yourself.” She edged away from him. “You have the social skills of a
water buffalo, but we’re not socializing.”
“I’m, uh, sorry,” he said.
The big brown eyes lifted, settled on him briefly and then looked away.
“I don’t know what your problem is with me, but I’m here to do a job. I have
knowledge that you don’t have. You can choose to ignore me or to utilize me.”
He considered the ways in which he’d like to utilize her. None of them
had anything to do with the job.
Her voice was soft, spoken just above a whisper. “I could be an asset to
your mission, but if you continue to discount me because I’m a woman, it’s your
loss.”
Mike shook his head. “I’m not discounting you.”
“Save it. You’re not the first chauvinistic male I’ve had to work with,
and I’m sure you won’t be the last.” She turned back to face him. “I’m not
asking you to like me. Just respect me for my abilities and treat me as you
would if I were male.”
Mike sighed. “Well, when you walk off in a snit to go pout, it’s a
little hard to think of you as a man.”
She snorted. “You think I came up here to pout? I left because I was
very close to kicking your ass.”
Mike gazed into Darla’s eyes, grinning. He knew that she couldn’t
possibly kick his ass. It was the idea that she thought she could, he found
intriguing.
~*~
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June and followers, I'm not sure what is going on with the bottom of the post. I've rearranged it several ways and each time it is skewed. Must have something to do with the formatting from June but I didn't want to lose her links, so enjoy some fun here at the bottom!
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