Sharon’s posting while Sandra’s playing

June 28, 2008 at 9:04 am | Category: blog

Good morning, everyone!  Today I am your guest blogger while Sandy is at the amusement park with her kiddies.  Happy Saturday to all!  Don’t know about you, but in Ohio it’s stormy and yucky.  The weather pretty much squashed my plans to take the kids to the pool.  Sigh.

This summer has been busy for me with three (yes, three!) books coming out, so I’ll get down to business.  My favorite type of heroes are tortured heroes.  The more tortured, the better, IMO.  Luke, my hero in my July release, Deception, is definitely tortured.  Literally and figuratively.

Here’s the blurb:

The true threat lies within the heart…

Kate McAuley once thought Lucas Barone loved her, and returned that love for all she was worth—until the day he walked away without a word. Now, four years later she answers a knock on her door and finds Luke on her doorstep, broken, bleeding and unconscious. He brings with him all kind of emotions, and all kinds of questions. Where has he been? Why did he leave? And what’s an accountant doing with wounds like these?

As a covert ops specialist with the U.S. government, Luke deceived, betrayed and conned so many people he couldn’t keep them straight—except Kate. Their time together was magical, until the call came and he was forced to walk away. For four long years, memories of her have kept him alive and sane. Now, hunted by his own government, desperate and injured, Kate is the only one he can trust.

Kate’s innocent phone call for help sets in motion an evil that reaches the highest echelons of political power. With accusations of murder and treason hanging over their heads, it’ll take every ounce of Luke’s training, intelligence—and Kate’s trust—to keep them alive.

And the Excerpt:

Kate wanted to close her eyes and pretend none of this had happened. There wasn’t a dead man lying in her living room. She wasn’t sitting in her car with Luke after he’d killed the dead man lying in her living room. It was all a dream. A nightmare.But it wasn’t. Luke had returned and killed a man, but that almost paled in comparison to what he was asking now. She rubbed at her aching temples, hoping she wasn’t getting a migraine when her migraine medication was at home with the dead guy. On top of that was this horrible sense of betrayal. She’d lived with Luke for nearly a year, given him everything she had to give, only to learn they’d been living a lie. The concept was so overwhelming it made her head hurt.“Kate?”She dragged her gaze back to his, took in the light sheen of sweat on his face, the circles under his eyes, the tightness around his mouth that told her he was in pain. And despite the betrayal and the deception, she actually considered going with him. “What are you going to do?” she asked. “What plan do you have?”“Find out what happened back at your house. Figure out why someone wants me dead.”Her gaze skittered over his body and his arm held protectively over his bruised ribs. “It’s nothing I haven’t lived through before,” he said, apparently reading her mind. His words were a reminder that he’d lived a life she’d been unaware of, that he’d deliberately lied to her for months while professing he loved her.“I need an answer, Kate.”She closed her eyes as her heart began to race again. An image of that man sliding to the floor, a bullet in his chest, played over and over in her mind. 

“Please,” he whispered.

I hope you enjoyed the blurb and excerpt of Deception and I hope Sandy is enjoying her day at the amusement park.  Please feel free to hop on over to my website and visit me any time you’d like at www.sharoncullen.net or subscribe to my newsletter.

If you’re interested in purchasing Deception, it will be available through Samhain Publishing on July 22.

Also, check out my other July release, A Forever Kind of Thing, at The Wild Rose Press.  A Forever Kind of Thing is a rerelease and was nominated for best book of the year in 2005.

  Thank you, Sandy, for allowing me to be a guest blogger! I hope everyone has a great weekend.

Sharon

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