Foreclosure looms for Cory
Rigatero as she fights to keep her rustic resort near Mt. St. Helens
afloat after her brother deserted her to join the SEAL Teams. Cory's
whole world dives into a tailspin when Sean MacKay shows up at her
resort with the news of her brother's death and the wild suspicion
her brother may have sent her traitorous classified documents. No way
will Cory trust MacKay -- the man who once seduced her and then
vanished into the night without a trace.
Excerpt:
Wham!
Something walloped Cory’s
truck from behind and slammed her forward, the seat belt cruelly
yanking back hard before she could hit the steering wheel. Grabbing
the wheel in both hands, Cory tried to suck a breath against the ache
in her chest. A glance in the rear view mirror showed a dark truck
speeding up fast behind her again. She braced for the impact.
Wham!
Even expecting the hit, the
force belted her forward hard.
“Stop it!” she screamed out
her open window.
She could see the outline of two
occupants in the assault vehicle. Both wearing dark clothes, not much
else visible.
Dear God! The Syrians.
The dark truck rammed her bumper
a third time, and Cory swore her neck vertebrae loosened from the
pounding. She stomped the accelerator to avoid a fourth impact. The
black truck kept speed with her, and both vehicles blew into the
winding hairpin curves near the north end of Lewis Lake. Tires
whistled and screeched on the murderous switchbacks, but she managed
to keep the big Chevy locked in her lane.
The black truck sped up and
rocked into the left lane. To come alongside? No way. She swerved her
pickup over the center line and forced them back. White spots
appeared in her vision, and she gulped a huge lungful of air, then
another.
No holding your breath now!
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We
asked author Petie McCarty, What was the what if moment for this
book?
Thank
you, Wild Women Authors, for allowing me this third and final visit
this week with your wonderful readers!
Kat
asked for my What if?
moment for Book 3 in my Mystery Angel Romances series, The
Angel and the SEAL.
First, I have to explain that when I write, I see movies in my head.
Or rather, I see movies in my head, and then
I write. Yes, I know that sounds weird, but the movies show up in
technicolor with full background, a hero, a heroine, and most of the
secondary characters. Sometimes, there’s just a scene or
two—something to peak my curiosity—but if there’s a beginning,
a middle, and an end to the show, then that’s the next book I
write, which accounts for my three completely different series.
So,
I was happily writing along on my story of a Navy SEAL going to visit
his teammate’s sister—a girl he had fallen in love with and
abandoned six years earlier, for reasons he thought valid at the
time, and she did not. The SEAL’s teammate supposedly had sent a
secret nerve gas formula to this same sister—or so the Navy
thought—before the teammate was murdered by the terrorists from
whom he’d stolen the aforementioned formula.
Our
SEAL hero returns to the home of his former sweetheart to see if she
indeed received this classified document from her brother and to
protect her in case the terrorists also come to retrieve their
formula. But what happens in the meantime, while the reader waits for
the terrorists to show up at the sister’s rundown resort?
I
know!
I
can have someone sabotage stuff at the sister’s resort, and the
SEAL will have to help the heroine figure out who is behind the
vandalism. And there came the big Why?
Or rather, the What
if?
Just
so happened at that point in my writing this story, I was watching TV
one night and get stuck on the movie, Mobsters,
where Christian Slater stars as Lucky Luciano. Riveting movie. This
led to internet research about Luciano’s capture, imprisonment, and
eventual deportation to Italy.
At
which point, I wondered . . . what
if Lucky Luciano was
headed to Bel Tesoro to hide his stash when he got nabbed in Hot
Springs, Arkansas and subsequently sent up the river. Now someone has
a reason to sabotage the resort . . . to get hold of the treasure. So
Lucky’s story was then threaded through The
Angel and the SEAL.
Leaving the reader to wonder who is after the formula and who wants
the Luciano treasure?
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Sounds like another great book
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Thanks so much for your support, Pamela!
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This sounds like a great book! I loved reading about your "what if" moment. That's so neat. It's cool to see how a story developed.
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I read this book and loved it!
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