Harlequin has reissued 16 of my backlist titles in ebook.
Today Reece Covington and Brandi Doyle are my guests to talk with us about
WHO'S BEEN SLEEPING IN MY BED?, a mystery/romantic suspense from Harlequin
Intrigue originally released in print and currently available from Harlequin
Intrigue in ebook.
Greetings, Reece and
Brandi. Thanks for stopping by today.
Reece: Thanks for the invitation, Shawna. We're
pleased to be here. What would you like to know?
Right to
business…LOL…okay. My first question is
for Brandi. You were being stalked, you had no idea why or by whom, and when
you reported it to the police they basically dismissed you. They didn't offer
you any help at all?
Brandi: Absolutely none. I guess intellectually I
understood their position. I couldn't supply them with a name or a reason or
even any specific details. But emotionally, their attitude left me frustrated,
angry…and very frightened. It was as if they were telling me when I turned up
dead they would try to work it into their schedule but until that time…tough
luck lady.
And then you were
kidnapped from your own garage, escaped your abductor, and were able to find
shelter from a storm in an empty cabin in the woods. And that's when Reece
entered the picture?
Reece: Yes. As luck would have it…or perhaps fate
would be a more accurate word…it was my cabin. It was one of the few occupied
cabins at the lake that time of year. I'd been living there, actually hiding
away from society in general, since my release from prison.
You were in prison for
two years?
Reece: (clenches jaw into a hard line while
frowning) Yes, two very long years on trumped up charges and false testimony
from a police officer. That got me two years in prison and the loss of the
private investigator's license. But, as a former P.I. I had the skills and
expertise to help Brandi. That is, once she finally calmed down, stopped
fighting me, and realized I wasn't going to hurt her. Then she told me how and
why she found it necessary to break into my cabin while I was buying supplies.
Brandi: I think fate
is truly the right word. What are the odds of the cabin belonging to a
detective, the very person I needed at a time when I truly needed help. It
didn't take long for us to discover that the policeman who framed Reece was the
same person who had abducted me.
Isn't that quite a
coincidence…maybe too much of a coincidence?
Reece: Not when you have all the facts and know the
details.
If this policeman was
someone that you had a long-standing feud with then that action, even though
both morally wrong and definitely illegal, of framing you for a crime most have
had a motive for him to do that. But why Brandi? What could she possibly have
to do with anything or anyone connected with these people?
Brandi: That was our biggest stumbling block. Nothing
about it made any sense, but that didn't diminish that fact that it was very
real.
Reece: The more we dug into anything and everything
that seemed suspicious, the deeper we sank into confusion. Being followed,
threatened and even shot at quickly followed. Evidence disappeared. Unraveling
the why became a major stumbling block, but we finally came across the one clue
that connected the dots. Unfortunately, even though we had discovered the why
we were still a long way from having all the details and evidence—all that
pesky little stuff referred to as 'proof'. Another problem…by that time we were
both being stalked and our lives were in danger. And then there was the FBI…
The FBI? Why…how did
they get involved?
Reece: That seemed at the time to have been a
miscalculation on my part. I contacted an FBI agent I had worked with several
years ago, thinking he might be able to give us some help as someone with
connections and access to information who didn't have any association with the
local police or local events. We ended up with everyone after us including the
D.A.'s office and the FBI, albeit for different reasons.
It seems that the FBI
should have been help rather than someone you were avoiding. Why were they
trying to track you down and why didn't you want them to find you?
Brandi: (grins) I believe all that is in the book.
Reece: (grabs hold on Brandi's hand) Yep—it's all in
the book.
Ah, yes. I know where
this is going. You're about to tell me to read the book.
Brandi: Right you are!
Sounds like an
excellent idea. Thanks for being with us today.
WHO'S BEEN SLEEPING IN MY BED?, a Harlequin Intrigue mystery/romantic
suspense by Shawna Delacorte reissued in ebook format. Available at http://ebooks.eharlequin.com (do search
for author name Shawna Delacorte). Also available from Amazon for Kindle and
Barnes & Noble for Nook as well as other ebook vendors. Check out my website for additional excerpts
from WHO'S BEEN SLEEPING IN MY BED? and information about my other Harlequin
ebook reissues. www.shawnadelacorte.com
Blurb:
WHO WAS THE BEAUTY IN HIS BED?
After a long day, the last thing private eye Reece Covington
expected to find was a beautiful stranger hiding out in his remote mountain
cabin. And when she awoke and told him she was in danger, Reece had an
immediate and intense need to protect her. Who was this woman who'd turned his
world upside down?
Local law enforcement claimed there was little evidence supporting
the danger Brandi Doyle reported she was in. Luckily, Reece quickly discovered
the stalker Brandi was running from was the same man Reece was running to…for
vengeance. But would their intimate connection only give an elusive criminal
more ammunition for murder?
Inside front cover
excerpt:
Everything seemed to be in order, except for the woman
asleep in his cabin. Reece took in everything about the stranger—the wet
clothes clinging to her body, the tousled, short blond hair and a beautiful
face that even in sleep was in obvious turmoil. He felt a definite tug on his
reality, a strange combination of lust and concern.
Should he wake her and demand to know what she was doing in
his cabin? He spotted her purse on the end table. As he reached for it she
stirred, then jerked to attention.
Her eyes went wide with fright as her gaze landed on him.
Her voice was anything but firm as she eased her way out of
the chair. She moved behind it in an obvious attempt to put a barricade between
them. "Who…who are you?"
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