Four
women have been found dead in the outskirts of a small Wisconsin town.
The only witness, clairvoyant Celeste Risinski, observes these brutal
murders through violent nightmares and hellish visions. The local
sheriff, who believes in Celeste’s abilities and wants to rid their
peaceful community of a killer, enlists the help on an old friend, Ian
Scott, owner of a private criminal investigation agency, CORE. Because
of Ian’s dark history with Celeste’s family, a history she knows nothing
about, he sends his top criminalist, former FBI agent John Kain to
investigate.
John
doesn’t believe in Celeste’s mystic hocus-pocus, or in her visions of
the murders. But just when he’s certain they’ve solved the crimes, with
the use of science and evidence, more dead bodies are discovered. Could
this somehow be the work of the same killer or were they dealing with a
copycat? To catch a vicious murderer, the skeptical criminalist
reluctantly turns to the sensual psychic for help. Yet with each step
closer to finding the killer, John finds himself one step closer to
losing his heart.
******** EXCERPT ********
The
bell on the front door chimed, and sunlight spilled into the diner.
When Celeste glanced up from the mug she’d been filling, she nearly
fumbled the scalding coffee pot as she caught her breath and stared at
the man strolling through the door.
Very
male, very hot, and certainly not from Wissota Falls. If he had been,
she would already have known every detail about him. Who needed to be
psychic when the diner was a regular gossip factory?
Tall,
dark and sexy glanced around the busy diner, then chose a vacant stool
near the wall at the end of the counter. If a man that big could move
with such a fluid, commanding grace by simply walking, she’d bet he had
even better moves in bed. She startled herself with the thought, then
even further when she pictured him in her bed, naked and between her
thighs.
“Can I get a little more coffee?”
Her
cheeks burned. Good Lord, she was fantasizing about a complete stranger
when the diner was hopping with customers needing attention. “Sure,
Russ, need anything else?”
He
grunted a refusal, which gave her a chance to lose the coffee pot
before she did some serious damage. After setting the pot on the burner,
she wrung her hands on her apron, then reached for her notepad and
pencil.
He’s
just a man like any other, she told herself. No big deal. So what if
her fingers tingled and itched to touch his thick black hair? So what if
she’d already pictured him naked? It had been a long time since she’d
had sex. Too long, she supposed, based on the sudden desire to touch and
be touched sizzling through her body. She stuffed any notion of having
sex with the stranger in the back of her mind, like she did with any
thoughts or memories she wasn’t sure she could control. This time,
though, it didn’t work.
I
didn’t pick up my first romance novel until I was in my late twenties.
Immediately hooked, I read a bazillion books before deciding to write
one of my own. After the birth of my first son I needed something to
keep my mind from turning to mush, and Sesame Street wasn’t cutting it.
While that first book will never see the light of day, something good
had come from writing it. I realized my passion, and had found a career
that I love.
When
I’m not writing contemporary romances and dark, romantic suspense
novels (or reading them!) I’m chasing after my four kids and two
neurotic dogs.
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5 comments:
Thanks for hosting! Also want to add that my book, Shadow of Danger, is available at iTunes:
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Best,
Kristine
Nice premise
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