Interview with Lori Foster (The Dangerous One)

Article and Interview by Elise Cooper The Dangerous One by Lori Foster is a spin-off of the McKenzies of Ridge Trail trilogy. The story has everything a reader would wish for: suspense, secrets, lies, power, control, manipulation, security, protection, acceptance, and love. The hero and heroine both are fighting demons of their past. Jodie Bentley was abused and is trying to overcome the terrors, while former park ranger Hunter Osborn is trying to stop the nightmares after seeing a terrible …

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Interview with Lisa Childs (Hotshot Hero in Disguise and Hotshot Heroes Under Threat)

Article and Interview by Elise Cooper The Hotshot Heroes series by Lisa Childs is a two for one. There are two mysteries in each book. A threat against the hero and heroine involving their personal life, and an overriding arc that has someone sabotaging the team. Although the books are in a series, there is sufficient information given in each book that allows each to be read as a standalone. The novels have great banter, murder, deception, and some romance. …

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Interview with Mary Alford (Amish Wilderness Survival)

Article and Interview by Elise Cooper Amish Wilderness Survival by Mary Alford blends an Amish story within an intense thriller. The plot is action-packed as the hero and heroine are immediately thrust into a dangerous situation where they must run for their lives. Leora Mast is trying to find her twin brother, Tanner, who has gone missing. After losing her parents to a fire and surviving cancer she only has him left, with an unmistakable link. She travels to Montana …

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Interview with Patricia Johns (Her Amish Country Valentine)

Article and Interview by Elise Cooper Her Amish Country Valentine by Patricia Johns blends Englishers within an Amish community. Readers will have fun seeing how a romance can bloom from strangers to friends to falling in love. What also makes the plot interesting is how the author has set up not one, but four different relationship stories. The story opens with Jill Wickey coming to Danke Pennsylvania for her younger sister’s wedding. She is staying with her Amish great-aunt, Belinda, …

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Interview with Lenora Worth (Pinecraft Refuge)

Article and Interview by Elise Cooper Pinecraft Refuge by Lenora Worth allows readers to get to know the real-life community of Pinecraft, Florida. It delves into family values and how family can be a burden and a blessing. Both the hero and the heroine’s mom have a lot in common. Both wanted to cuddle and smother their children, being overprotective and overbearing. The heroine, Eva, is frail, shy, blunt, feels she is a Plain Jane with self-esteem problems. She can …

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Interview with Pam Jenoff (Code Name Sapphire)

Article and Interview by Elise Cooper Code Name Sapphire by Pam Jenoff is the latest of her historical novels. The plot begins in 1942 and revolves around three women, each with a distinctly different personality. The story has love, resilience, complicated family relationships, betrayal, and secrets. The story begins with the Nazis attacking a couple in Germany. Hannah Martel drew satiric anti-Nazi cartoons and her fiancé, Isaac, printed them in his underground Berlin newspaper. Attacked brutally, Isaac dies in Hannah’s …

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Interview with J. A. Jance (Collateral Damage)

Article and Interview by Elise Cooper Collateral Damage by J. A. Jance blends a very twisted story involving security, battered women, organized crime, murders, corruption, and revenge. It is told from different points of view between High Noon characters, several police forces, and investigators trying to piece together a puzzle that spans many different jurisdictions. Readers soon learn about Frank Muñoz, a disgraced former cop, out on parole after twenty years. He is focused on revenge for those who helped …

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Interview with Brittany Butler (The Syndicate Spy)

Article and Interview by Elise Cooper The Syndicate Spy by Brittany Butler is an intriguing story that allows readers a glimpse into the espionage world. A former CIA operative, Brittany uses her personal experience to take readers on a thrilling ride. Brittany Butler spent nine years as a targeting officer within CIA’s Directorate of Operations, Counterterrorism Center. Both at Langley and on temporary assignments in the Middle East, Brittany spearheaded operational efforts to achieve some of the most sensitive foreign …

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Interview with Matthew Quirk, Gabriel Basso, Luciane Buchanan, and Shawn Ryan (The Night Agent)

Article and Interview by Elise Cooper The Night Agent by Matthew Quirk was published in 2021. It has been made into a Netflix TV series, http://www.netflix.com/thenightagent, and was released on March 23rd. Both the show and book are riveting thrillers that delve into corruption at the highest levels of government. The plot has FBI Agent Peter Sutherland tapped to work in the White House Situation Room. When Peter was a boy, his father was suspected of being a traitor, a …

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Interview with Lisa Harris (Fallout series)

Article and Interview by Elise Cooper The Fallout series by Lisa Harris currently has five books out, The Last Day, Survival, Hunted, Frequency, Deception, and Shattered, which will be out the end of this month. The plot has the electric grid sabotaged, with technology suddenly no longer available.  No one in the small, west Texas town of Shadow Ridge knows what took down the power grid, or when it’s going to be back up, but everyone knows exactly where they …

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