Posts Tagged "Margaret Daley"

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Excerpt from In Defense of Love by Margaret Daley Maggie Summers sank wearily onto the chair, placing her large, brown-framed glasses on her desk. Reports were neatly stacked on its polished surface, along with a batch of letters that had to be signed before she could leave on her vacation. Vacation! She wasn’t sure if she should call the next week’s trip a vacation. Why had she allowed Ruth to talk her into this—a bicycle tour through Virginia? Her work must really be getting to her. She was crazy. That was the only excuse she could come up with. Maggie took a resigned swallow of her cold coffee, then leaned forward and quickly signed her name on several sheets of paper. It was extremely important for her to generate the necessary support for next month’s battle...

Ice spattered the windshield and laid a thin layer on the streets and sidewalks. Trees began to sag with the extra weight on their limbs. U.S. Deputy Marshal Colton Phillips leaned forward and inspected the roiling dark gray clouds moving in from the west. At least the roads were still passable; the weather lately had been warm in St. Louis, especially for February.But he didn’t have much time to get his witness to the St. Louis Downtown Airport. He was meant to transport the man to his temporary new home in Denver. The pilot of the U.S. Marshals Service’s jet had called earlier to warn Colton that, due to the weather, the airport would most likely shut down within forty minutes. Which didn’t leave him much time to make the flight.Colton kept...

Excerpt from Deadly Hunt (part of the series Strong Women, Extraordinary Situations): Tess Miller pivoted as something thumped against the door. An animal? With the cabin’s isolation in the Arizona mountains, she couldn’t take any chances. She crossed the distance to a combination-locked cabinet and quickly entered the numbers. After withdrawing the shotgun, she checked to make sure it was loaded then started toward the door to bolt it, adrenaline pumping through her veins. Silence. Had she imagined the noise? Maybe her work was getting to her, making her paranoid. But as she crept toward the entrance, a faint scratching against the wood told her otherwise. Her senses sharpened like they would at work. Only this time, there was no client to protect. Just her own...

Congratulations to bn100 for winning Elizabeth Goddard’s Wilderness Peril and to Alison for winning Dave Fessenden’s The Case of the Exploding Speakeasy. I’m taking two weeks off from blogging to enjoy my family and some down time. I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas and New Year. Have a safe holiday with peace and joy. Thanks to Brenda Taylor for inviting me on this blog tour. My week is December 23-29. Check her blog out at: http://www.houseofpassage.org/bethabara-journal/ Following is a small glimpse of my writing world. 1. What are you working on right now? I’m working on Deadly Hunt a novella in an Inspy Kisses Collection that will come out March 1st. I’m in this collection with Debra Clopton, Camy Tang, Lacy Williams,...