This week I’m hosting Keli Gwyn with Family of Her Dreams (US only), Denise Hunter with Married ’til Monday (US only), and Elizabeth Goddard with Backfire (US only). If you want to enter the drawings for the books, please leave a comment on your post with your email address. I will not enter you without an email address (my way to contact you if you win). If you don’t want to leave an email address, another way you can enter is to email me at margaretdaley@gmail.com. The drawings end Sunday (June 21st) evening.
Interview with the heroine from Married ’til Monday by Denise Hunter
1. Abby, tell me the most interesting thing about you.
Most people find my occupation interesting. I’m a private investigator for a private agency in Indianapolis, Indiana. My background in investigative journalism didn’t quite prepare me for snooping through people’s garbage, though.
2. What do you do for fun?
My job demands a lot of focus, so I rely on my friend Gillian for an occasional girls night out—or rather, in—since they mostly consists of Red Box movies and junk food. Ironically enough, my best friend is a psychologist. But I try not to hold that against her.
3. What do you put off doing because you dread it?
Calling my mom. There’s a lot of baggage there, and I’d rather leave it closed. Still, she’s my mom. I can’t avoid her forever.
4. What are you afraid of most in life?
My dad. I really don’t want to talk about him.
5. What do you want out of life?
Professionally, I’d like to work my way up and, ideally, manage my own agency. Personally, I’d like to find myself happily married with a child or two at some point. Although if I’m honest, I have a lot more healing to do before that can happen. As much as I’d like to deny it, my heart still belongs to my ex-husband.
6. What is the most important thing to you?
Justice. Bad guys should be caught. The guilty should pay for their crimes. That’s partly why I find my job so satisfying.
7. Do you read? If so, what is your favorite type of book to read?
I don’t read often, but when I do it’s usually true crime.
8. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
I’d love nothing more than to be over Ryan McKinley once and for all. If only. It’s been three years, and I still can’t get him out of my head or out of my heart. It doesn’t help that my folks still think we’re married. Long story.
9. Do you have a pet? If so, what is it and why that pet?
I have an adorable Yorkie named Boo. She’s my baby. She loves to cuddle, and she’s always there for me. Unfortunately she tends to piddle when she’s upset. Needless to say, I try to keep the anxiety to a bare minimum.
10. If you could travel back in time, where would you go and why?
Hmm. Hard question. Would I never meet Ryan? The thought of it makes that hollow spot in my stomach widen to an aching gap. No, I wouldn’t change that. I think I’d go back and try and figure out what really went wrong in our marriage. Maybe then I wouldn’t still be trying to pick up the broken pieces of my life three years later.
