The Stormwatch Series by Debra Webb et al. (VBB, excerpt, and GIVEAWAY) GFT

STORMWATCH series blurb:

Winter storm Holly is the worst in eighty years bringing high winds, subzero temperatures and snowfall better measured in feet than in inches. The weather paralyzes everything in its path, but in this storm, weather isn’t the only threat.

A new installment of STORMWATCH releases each Thursday starting December 5 through January 9. Each thrilling full length novel is a standalone story with no cliffhangers. Don’t miss a single one from half a dozen of the genre's bestselling storytellers!

December 5 - Frozen Ground by Debra Webb
December 12 - Deep Freeze by Vicki Hinze
December 19 - Wind Chill by Rita Herron
December 26 - Black Ice by Regan Black
January 2 - Snow Brides by Peggy Webb
January 9 - Snow Blind by Cindy Gerard

Stormwatch series page at Amazon

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Frozen Ground

by

Debra Webb

Abbey Gray, a NYT bestselling suspense author, is burned out. She needs time away from the madness of deadlines and personal appearances as well as her big city life in New York. Returning to her small hometown in Montana to hide herself away, she attempts to dive into her next novel. Abbey hopes the solitude will kickstart her muse but a murder next door gets in the way. The murder stirs painful memories from the past of another murder--Abbey's mother. Can the eerily similar details of her neighbor's murder help Abbey remember the truth about the past before she becomes the next victim? With the storm charging toward her hometown, there is no escaping what's coming.

Sheriff Garrett Gilmore has known Abbey and her family his entire life. In truth, he’s probably been waiting for her to come back, knowing it likely wouldn’t happen or maybe he just has commitment issues. He can’t worry about that at the moment, he has a homicide to solve and a murderer to catch, all with the storm of the century bearing down on Montana. Survival is all that matters.

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Excerpt

Abbey Gray stopped at the bottom of the staircase and surveyed the living room of her childhood home. She inhaled deeply. It was almost as if she could smell her father’s aftershave.

She sighed. But that was impossible. Douglas Gray had died a year ago.

Fourteen months ago, to be exact. It didn’t seem possible. She’d just hit thirty and she had no family left. The image of her brother, Steven, filtered through her mind, but he had turned his back on her and what was left of their family years ago after what happened.

The murder.

Her father rare spoke her mother’s murder after he’d exhausted his attempts to prove what really happened. It was easier that way, he’d said. What he’d meant was that if they didn’t mention the murder, they didn’t have to talk about the trial or the fact that the accused was Steven—Abbey’s brother, the son of the victim.

No matter that she and her father had struggled mightily to get past what Steven had done and to hold together the shattered fragments of their family, her brother adamantly refused to communicate with them in any way after the trial ended. He’d been taken away and that was the last time Abbey had seen him. As hard as she and their father had wanted to believe his insistence that he was innocent, the evidence—an eyewitness for God’s sake—had pointed to him. Still, they had both tried to see him, to talk to him, but Steven had refused. Year after year, their letters had been returned unopened. Eventually Abbey had stopped bothering; her father had as well.




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About the Author:

DEBRA WEBB is the USA Today and Publisher's Weekly bestselling author of more than 160 novels, including reader favorites the Shades of Death, the Faces of Evil, and the Colby Agency. She is the recipient of the prestigious Romantic Times Career Achievement Award for Romantic Suspense as well as numerous Reviewers Choice Awards. In 2012 Debra was honored as the first recipient of the esteemed L. A. Banks Warrior Woman Award for her courage, strength, and grace in the face of adversity. Recently Debra was awarded the distinguished Centennial Award for having achieved publication of her 100th novel. With this award Debra joined the ranks of a handful of authors like Nora Roberts and Carole Mortimer.

With more than four million books in print in numerous languages and countries, Debra's love of storytelling goes back to her childhood when, at the age of nine, her mother bought her an old typewriter in a tag sale. Born in Alabama, Debra grew up on a farm. She spent every available hour exploring the world around her and creating her stories. She wrote her first story at age nine and her first romance at thirteen. It wasn't until she spent three years working for the Commanding General of the US Army in Berlin behind the Iron Curtain and a five-year stint in NASA's Shuttle Program that she realized her true calling. A collision course between suspense and romance was set. Since then she has expanded her work into some of the darkest places the human psyche dares to go.


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Taking Fire by Cindy Gerard (review)

First, Happy Birthday to my darling hubby and Happy St. Patrick's Day to those of you who celebrate it!

Blurb:
Betrayal. Retribution. Redemption?

Six years ago, tough-as-nails military contractor Bobby Taggart met the woman of his dreams in war-torn Kabul—a sexy, whip-smart war correspondent who approached him at a local bar, took him to bed, made him fall in love…and then mysteriously disappeared. In her wake, the terrorist leader he’d been mining for valuable intel was assassinated—then Bobby discovered his phone had been bugged. And he’s pretty damn sure he’s been played for a fool.

Now, a covert security mission for the U.S. Embassy in Oman unexpectedly reunites him with Talia Levine, the woman who betrayed him and broke his heart. And there’s one more secret she hasn’t told him—one that will change his world. But as the heat of anger mixes with a still-simmering passion, dangerous forces close in, their sights set on Talia. Trust is the only way they will survive—but with their lives in the balance, can Bobby risk trusting her again?

Taking Fire by Cindy Gerard is a romantic suspense story that is part of the ‘One-Eyed Jack’ series and centers around Talia Levine and Robert (Bobby or Boom Boom) Taggart, who cross paths again after a searingly uncomfortable end to their last encounter.  Each has experienced radical changes in life, but the need to depend on one another to achieve a common goal brings back to life all of the issues that each has buried.  They need to figure out whether they can have a future together, but the problem is staying alive long enough to do so.

One of the reasons I love romantic suspense stories is the opportunity to vicariously experience the rush of adrenaline engendered by the extremely risky situations that are involved while comfortably realizing that I will never be anywhere near as competent as the characters portrayed.  This author does a wonderful job of putting the reader right in the middle of tension-filled scenes while gradually revealing clues that flesh out the characters and making them both real and appealing.  The wrenching dilemma that characterizes the first relationship between the hero and heroine and the subsequent fallout are deftly portrayed while enthralling one on a roller-coaster ride reminiscent of a James Bond story.  There are delightful ‘aw’ moments as well, provided by a pivotal secondary character, as well as wonderfully sensual interludes between Talia and Bobby.  The camaraderie between Bobby and his ‘brothers’ only adds to the appeal of the book and, despite having no familiarity with the series (which I definitely want to rectify by reading the other three books that preceded this one), I had no trouble reading this as a stand-alone story.  This was a fun and exciting read and I look forward to enjoying other stories from this talented author!

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