~ BLITZ TOUR ~
-- 'THE COST OF BETRAYAL' --
AUTHORS DEE HENDERSON,
DANI PETTREY & LYNETTE EASON
~Post Includes: Book Spotlight, Author Bios,
Excerpt & Giveaway~
~Post Includes: Book Spotlight, Author Bios,
Excerpt & Giveaway~
Title: The Cost of Betrayal
Authors: Dee Henderson, Dani Pettrey, Lynette Eason
Publisher: Bethany House
Release Date: September 4, 2018
Genre: Novella Collection / Romantic Suspense
FAITH WILL BE TESTED. TRUST SHATTERED.
THREE BESTSELLING ROMANTIC SUSPENSE WRITERS REUNITE FOR NOVELLAS OF DEADLY BETRAYAL.
Dee Henderson - 'Betrayed'
After serving six years of a twenty-year sentence for a murder she didn't commit, Janelle Roberts is finally freed. But the truth is still waiting to be discovered, and a murderer is still at large. Janelle needs to be somewhere safe with someone she can trust. She may not survive another act of treachery.
After serving six years of a twenty-year sentence for a murder she didn't commit, Janelle Roberts is finally freed. But the truth is still waiting to be discovered, and a murderer is still at large. Janelle needs to be somewhere safe with someone she can trust. She may not survive another act of treachery.
Dani Pettrey - 'Deadly Isle'
Tennyson Kent is trapped on the isolated island of her childhood by a storm surge, and she is shocked when the typically idyllic community turns into the hunting grounds of a murderer. Cut off from any help from the mainland, will she and first love Callen Frost be able to identify and stop a killer before they become the next victims?
Lynette Eason - 'Code of Ethics'
When Detective Isaac Martinez lands in the ER with a gunshot wound, he pulls through thanks to trauma surgeon Ruthie St. John. But as the witness to a crime and possible corruption, Martinez is at risk from someone intent on silencing him--and those around him--forever. When he barely survives another attack while recovering, both he and Ruthie must flee, trying to outrun deadly killers while locating the evidence they need to end the danger.
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EXCERPT: from 'Betrayed' by Dee Henderson:
Good people committed murder. Paul had long since accepted that. He’d put a significant number of them in prison. But a good person didn’t often plan the murder in advance, requiring rapid decisions on what to do afterward, leading to mistakes, panic. Janelle had not planned what happened that night. That was what had clicked. Paul leaned back to ponder that thought.
Good people committed murder. Paul had long since accepted that. He’d put a significant number of them in prison. But a good person didn’t often plan the murder in advance, requiring rapid decisions on what to do afterward, leading to mistakes, panic. Janelle had not planned what happened that night. That was what had clicked. Paul leaned back to ponder that thought.
Guilty people gave themselves away—sweating, minds racing,
desperate to get rid of the evidence, establish an alibi, spin a story out to
friends to cover the time period. Good people who committed murder were unable
to walk away and show no signs of it. As an investigator, you didn’t make a
decision based on behavior. You worked from the evidence. But the evidence
backed up behavior. He had two people in this case file, and they were handling
events very differently.
He accepted the bowl of ice cream from his wife, waited till
she was seated. “Ann, your best evidence that Tanya—or someone else—did this
murder is Janelle’s behavior. The patrol officer found Janelle at home wearing
sweats, eating chocolate ice cream out of the carton, and methodically taking
apart a scrapbook full of pictures of her with Andrew. The search of her home
yielded some things of Andrew’s: jacket, CDs, and books haphazardly thrown
together in a box in the hall. Janelle had been purging her apartment of her
boyfriend when the patrol officer knocked on her door.”
He saw the surprise cross her face.
“I hadn’t thought about that specifically.”
“Character tells. It always does. Janelle isn’t guilty of
this. The patrol officer knocks on her door, and she’s clueless that her
boyfriend has been hurt, let alone is dead. If it was the detective who knocked
on her door and saw for himself what she was doing, her shock and the tears, he
would have kept pushing until he could find another answer.
“But by the time Janelle has been driven in the back of a
squad car to the beach, has seen all the flashing lights and cops and medical
examiner vehicles, she’s quiet and wound tight and confused, desperately trying
to sort out what happened to the man she loves after she left him. The
detective sees someone saying she didn’t do it, but missed seeing the physical
innocence, that clueless expression that would have told him she was telling
the truth. He knows they had a fight, there’s blood on her shoes, the knife she
can’t produce is consistent with what stabbed Andrew—he had to go with what was
there in front of him. The detective bought the frame.”
“You believe me?”
“Yes.”
Relief flowed across her face.
***To read different excerpts from the other stories
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tour!***
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Dee Henderson is the author of numerous novels, including Taken, Undetected, Unspoken, Full Disclosure, and the acclaimed O'Malley and Uncommon Heroes series. Her books have won or been nominated for several prestigious industry awards, such as the RITA Award, the Christy Award, and the ECPA Gold Medallion. Dee is a lifelong resident of Illinois.CONNECT WITH DEE: website | facebook
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She feels blessed to write inspirational romantic suspense because it incorporates so many things she loves—the thrill of adventure, nail-biting suspense, the deepening of her characters’ faith, and plenty of romance. She and her husband reside in Maryland, where they enjoy time with their two daughters, a son-in-law, and a super adorable grandson.
CONNECT WITH DANI: website | facebook | twitter | pinterest | instagram
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She is a graduate of the University of South Carolina and has a master's degree in education from Converse College. Eason lives in South Carolina with her husband and two children.
CONNECT WITH LYNETTE: website | facebook | twitter
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COMING UP SOON ON 'READING, WRITING & STITCH-METIC':
-- Monday, September 10th: Marvelous Middle-Grade Monday post. Title TBA.
-- Wednesday, September 12th: Blog Hop Stop for 'Chasing the Hunter' by debut author Emily Yager. Post includes book spotlight, guest post, and giveaway. Tour organized by Singing Librarian Books.
-- Friday, September 14th: Blog Tour Stop for 'An Unpresentable Glory'. Post includes a book spotlight, excerpt, guest post, and giveaway. Tour organized by JustRead Publicity.
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Im so looking forward to reading this book!
ReplyDeletethank you so much, June!
ReplyDeleteThis book sound amazing. Thanks for the giveaway
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ReplyDeleteGreat excerpt! thanks for sharing!
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