Everyone, we are joined today on this 30th Day of March by the wonderful, Rebecca Grant, women's fiction and romance author. Welcome, Rebecca, please make yourself a home and tell us about you and your work.
✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿
It’s a pleasure to be a guest here today. Many thanks to Julieanne
for having me!
I've always believed that writing
women’s fiction and romance is a little like cooking. First, I like to lay my
hero and heroine out gently on a well-oiled surface, take some seasoning up in
my hands and smooth it into them until they’re so flavorful they’re ready to
pop. Then I let them steep awhile in a nice marinade. When they're at their
most succulent, sometimes I'll put them in a slow-cooking oven and turn them
over and over, and other times I'll toss them on a blazing grill to sizzle.
Either way, at some point in the story, they are going to devour each other… because
love is unstoppable. And that’s why
I adopted ‘love is unstoppable’ as
my brand phrase!
My romantic suspense, CRADLE OF LIES,
which releases April 1, is the story
of Cord Archer, the son of a renown psychopathic serial murderer who must
overcome seemingly insurmountable odds.
We first meet Cord at sixteen. He’s as trapped as the six women his daddy has kidnapped… and is about to systematically dismember… and then murder… when suddenly… Cord sees an opportunity to escape.
The only problem is… Cord has been kept so isolated
and ignorant, he has no idea how to escape, or where he might go for help.
And what about the six women? If he’s able to escape,
he can’t risk taking them with, can he? One lone boy might escape the
diabolical reach of his psycho daddy… but the women will just slow him down,
won’t they?
When I first sat down to write this story, I intended
to write about the glorious west. The immense Montana sky. The courageous,
driving predilection the American cowboy has for the open-range. Yet, what came
out was a gritty, teeth-clenching, dark story about a man who was so abused for
the first sixteen years of his life, I almost stopped writing… until I realized
this story epitomizes the unstoppable
nature of love, and underscores our phenomenally remarkable ability as
human beings to overcome any obstacle.
Here is the back cover blurb:
Forced to spend the first sixteen years of his life witnessing some of the most epic murders ever committed, what kind of a life can Cord hope for?
When Cord Archer first meets Mattie Rayne, her incandescent smile heats him like the summer sun, bleaching him clean. Nothing else matters except making her his. Before he can do that, his conscience compels him to explain why he entered an institution at age sixteen and spent five years learning to read, write and function in mainstream society.
Upon learning that Cord is the son of a notorious psychopathic serial-killer, Mattie realizes what a monumental effort it took for him to survive, much less make it all the way back from crazy. Knowing this only makes her love him more.
Just when it would seem Cord is finally about to know love, two phenomenally staggering events irrevocably change the course of his life. First, a sociopath becomes fixated on him. Next, his daddy escapes from prison with the sole intent of tracking him down.
Without giving too much of the story away, Cord is
haunted by the possibility that he might have inherited the ‘psycho gene’.
Although there is a great deal of disagreement among experts about whether a
‘psycho gene’ actually exists, there is evidence to link psychopathology to
genetics.
Cord’s greatest fear is that although he’s managed to
escape his father, he may not have escaped his father’s legacy. What if, one
day, he wakes up with the desire to kill and maim, the way he watched his
father for the first sixteen years of his life?
What if he has a child, who also inherits the psycho
gene?
And what about Mattie Rayne? Even if she’s willing to
take this risk, can he live with the possibility?
Before Cord is able to answer these questions for
himself, he finds himself being stalked by a female sociopath… a woman whose
plans for Cord are possibly even more twisted than what he experienced growing
up with his father.
✿
CRADLE OF LIES twists and turns through the story of Cord at age sixteen as he
fights to escape his father, Cord at age twenty-one when he falls in love with
Mattie, and Cord at age thirty-six when he resigns from the FBI and returns
home to Cradle, Montana, his only thought to find some kind of peace, knowing
he can never be close to the one woman he loves, or any woman, because of his
DNA.
Now that you
know a little about the story, I’m curious…
1. Do you believe that the ‘psycho gene’ exists?
2. If you fell desperately in love with someone, would you marry him,
even though you knew he might one day turn into a diabolical murderer, just
like his daddy?
3. Would you have children with a man who might pass on the ‘psycho
gene’?
4. And finally… do you believe that love is unstoppable? Have a brief
example you’d like to share about the unstoppable nature of love?
Thanks for dropping by. I hope you enjoyed reading
about CRADLE OF LIES.
Come by and visit me any time.
Rebecca E. Grant
Love is Unstoppable
Books by Rebecca E. Grant
CRADLE OF LIES is available April 1 through the publisher Red Sage, or from your
favorite online bookseller. Read an excerpt.
Also available is LIBERTY
STARR, my first contemporary western romance, available through Carina
Press or your favorite online bookseller. Read an excerpt.
Soon to be released is my contemporary romance NAKED HOPE,
available through The Wild Rose
Press. Read an
excerpt.
Here are some links of interest:
Author website
Blog
Facebook Author Page
Goodreads
Liberty Starr - excerpt
Naked Hope - excerpt
✿✿✿✿✿
Thanks, Rebecca for stopping by.
Now be sure to stop by the links and grab yourself a copy or two for yourself.
