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1.
If I were to cast the hero of Mad
Dog and the Archangel, I would want Lou Diamond Phillips. He's the only one
who could play Rafe Archangeli, the Scourge of Summerville.
2. People I
meet or know run a high risk of ending up in my books. In my first full length
novel, Captain Marvelous, I needed a
head nurse in the ER and wanted a male nurse. He needed to be big all over with
huge hands and a heart of mush. I used a cop I once worked with and adored; he
later became the hero in Those Who Wait
[a novella I wrote for Decadent Publishing, w/a Veronica Lynch]. I needed
someone with a whippy sense of humor and a twinkle in his eye; Joe Murphy was
perfect to play Keenan Rossi. On the negative side of the fence, a former boss
became the heroine's snarky supervisor in Those
Who Wait. I laughed my way through the two scenes that featured that bird. The former chief of police of the city
where I've lived for the past 40 years became the COP for the three stories I
wrote for the Class of 85 series, including Mad
Dog and the Archangel.
3.
Currently my two favorite actors are LievSchreiber and Daniel Craig. Total
yummy both of them. Did you them in Defiance? Wonderful. Toe crunch
time.
4. I
celebrated the release of my first book [Captain
Marvelous] by getting rip roaring
drunk. It was 2004, I was in Dallas at the RWA conference. My first book; my
first time at RWA.
5. The music I'm
currently listening to is governed by mood. If I'm having trouble in my love
life, no one but Johnny Mathis does it for me. If I want to rock, it's Frankie
Valli and the Four Seasons. If I want to kick some ass it's the Eagles. If I'm
feeling romantic, it's George Gershwin all the way. I'm trying to memorize the
lyrics to “Come a Little Bit Closer” by Jay and the Americans for my current
WIP. My grandchildren sing it with me, particularly the trumpet refrains of
bump-bump-bump. I love the sound of their laughter and this song always does
the trick.
. 6
I absolutely believe in love at first sight―but
lust is a whole lot more fun, particularly in a book
7. If I could
trade places with any of my characters it would be Maggie McShane, the heroine
in my second novel, Try Just Once More.
I admire and respect her for the changes she's made in her life, including the
summoning the courage to try just once more with hero Mike Brandt who is so
sexy he makes my toenails curl.
BLURB:
Rafael
Archangeli returns home to Summerville to bury an old friend, collect his
inheritance, and then return to the only life he knows—conning wealthy women
out of their money. In Rafe's world, money not only equals success, it goes a
long way to obliterate the stigma of his past.
Grace
Dunavan, former nun turned community activist, gave up worldly goods a long
time ago with no regrets. But she's never known a man with the raw appeal of
the Scourge of Summerville: Rafael Archangeli.
Their
first meeting is like an errant strike of lightning, fierce and stunning in
intensity, and takes both by surprise. Has Grace turned Rafe into a changed
man? Or is he using his inheritance to pull off the biggest scam of his life?
EXCERPT:
“The terms of the will demand the
heirs be notified in person of the gifts, and stipulations pertaining to them,
within one year of Mr. Thurgood's passing. You, Mr. Archangeli, are the first
of the heirs to be found and notified.”
After the night with Grace, topped
off by the morning's revelation of her previous occupation, Rafe figured he'd
best get his ass back to New York and put this stroll down memory lane behind
him. “What is the inheritance?”
Attorney Burke slid the file across
the the desk at him. “The Thurgood Trust.”
Rafe stared at the folder. A couple
pieces of paper were worth getting his sister all nervous and jerky? “I don't
understand.”
“According to an audit completed
just two days ago, it's worth nine hundred million dollars.”
“So?”
“Congratulations.” Burke's stony
features belied the single word. “The Trust is yours.”
If Rafe had been forced to come up with a last minute scam, this
would top the list. “This isn't my first trip to the prom, Mr. Burke. In that I
have better things to do with my time, thanks but no thanks.”
The attorney's sigh was full and
dramatic. Rafe had often used the same ploy. Easiest way to bring a mark over
to the dark side is to act put upon. “When he learned his diagnosis was
terminal, Mr. Thurgood decided to establish a charitable trust with the goal of
meeting the needs of under-served populations in our community. Your mission,
should you choose to accept it, is to manage the Trust.”
Nine hundred million dollars.
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