Cassandra
by J.M. Anton
GENRE: Contemporary
Romantic Suspense
BLURB:
Cassandra
Hoffman orphaned at the age of five was raised by her maternal grandmother. Two
decades pass when she is confronted with a letter from her father’s Denver
based attorney. She's shocked to learn that her dad lived through the car crash
that took her mother and brothers in 1985.
Casey’s haunted nights begin with the death of her father. Who is the shadow man in her dreams? Could it be her dad whom she had believed dead? She discovers he had another family, and some dark secrets Casey sets out to solve the mysteries of her abandonment, and find the answers to the nightshades that threaten her sanity.
Our heroine runs afoul of a previously unknown nemesis as she searches for answers, but she also finds the love of her life. He too abandons her, as he struggles with physical and mental wounds from multiple tours in the Middle East. Can Casey forgive him as they confront a mutual enemy?
Casey’s haunted nights begin with the death of her father. Who is the shadow man in her dreams? Could it be her dad whom she had believed dead? She discovers he had another family, and some dark secrets Casey sets out to solve the mysteries of her abandonment, and find the answers to the nightshades that threaten her sanity.
Our heroine runs afoul of a previously unknown nemesis as she searches for answers, but she also finds the love of her life. He too abandons her, as he struggles with physical and mental wounds from multiple tours in the Middle East. Can Casey forgive him as they confront a mutual enemy?
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AUTHOR BIO:
EXCERPT:
Stokes was already at the bar when
Big Joe arrived. The PI was a smidgen under six foot, and not very impressive.
That fact and his patient persistent nature served him well and enabled him to
blend in almost anywhere. His light brown receding hairline and brown eyes
framed by wire-rimmed glasses didn’t garner much interest.
An overly attentive young hostess
escorted Big Joe to his usual table at the back corner of the dining room where
he had an excellent view of who came and went. He had more than a few enemies.
That was to be expected. He was a rich, ruthless, powerful man who was about to
move JD to the top of his enemy list.
He ordered another bourbon when
Stokes joined him and waved off the waiter as he returned for their lunch
order. “Get on with it.”
Stokes disliked Big Joe, but he paid
well and had a lot of well-heeled connections. Things were tight, so he took on
the assignment to follow Cassandra Hoffman. “Not much happened after she got
back from Denver. She works at her studio and spends a lot of time at home with
her grandmother. Other than a couple of altercations with her ex fiancé, not
much to interest you until JD showed up, but it is all in the report.”
Big Joe took the packet with the
report, complete with photos, and set it aside. He would review it in private.
“Get to the part about JD.”
“He must have arrived by cab. I
didn’t know he was there, but stuck around a while when she got home. It was
obvious that something was out of the ordinary that Friday evening. She broke
the speed limit and then some. A short time later she, her grandmother, and JD
went out to eat. He stayed the night, but before dawn they were on the road. I
followed them with the little tracking beacon I’d placed on her vehicle when
I’d first taken on the assignment. They spent the day at a horse sale with some
of her friends. Early Sunday morning, the pair of them went to a local boarding
stable where her purchase of the prior day was delivered. They returned home to
escort her grandmother to church.”
Stokes placed a flash drive in his
laptop and activated the file he wanted, and then he slid it over for Big Joe
to view. “Sunday, the lights went out around eleven. I stayed for a while and
figured they were in for the night. It was raining, and I was ready to pack it
up when JD opened the door and seated himself on the small covered porch.
Things got interesting when Miss Hoffman joined him.”
Big Joe closed the laptop. “Stokes, I want
that flash drive.”
Stokes ejected it and gave it to his
client who dropped it into the packet with the rest the results from his
assignment.
“Go back and keep an eye on her. I
will take care of JD.”
Stokes didn’t like the sounds of the
implied threat, but he caught the next flight back to Cleveland.
AUTHOR BIO:
Author
Jackie Anton lives in rural Ohio with her husband, two horses, two dogs, and
abundant wildlife. Years of experience with horses and youth riders lend a
unique perspective to her Backyard Horse Tales, and crop up in unexpected
scenes in her adult works written with the pen name J.M.
Ms.
Anton is the author of the award winning children’s series Backyard Horse
Tales. In her 2015 award winning adult novel
"Wind River Refuge" she turns her attention to the
difficulties in overcoming childhood abuse. Set in the turbulent sixties and
early seventies. This romance / who done it comes from a time before child
advocacy, cell phones, and PCs.
Cassandra
Hoffman begins her search for justice in the early decade of the twenty first
century in Anton's latest adult novel Cassandra: Night Shades.
Other
Books by J.M.
2015
saw the release of the first two books in the Troubles in Love-Land Series.
Book One: "Fateful Waters" was released as an e-book and paperback
May of 2015. Book Two: "Panhandle Mayhem" was be released November of
2015. There is more to come in the series for 2016.
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1 comments:
Thanks for hosting Cassandra and me. We will drop by later to chat or answer questions.
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