Sometimes we all just want to escape. For me, I’m thinking that scenario was the driving force in my Fantasy/Paranormal Romance, THE AWAY PLACE, and also OFF THE GRID, my newest Romantic Suspense. This story involves the heroine, RJ Jones, changing her identity to Jean Walters to escape killers wanting her dead.
For Jean, instead of finding her remote “off the grid” location, she gets ensnared by the kindness of strangers wanting to help her. Here, in a small Missouri town, she feels a sense of community and family that she’d lacked before. However, there is still the matter of her mother’s murderer hot on her trail. How can she protect herself and these wonderful people she’s grown to love?
SHE’S GOT TO RUN
Up-and-coming New York fashion designer, Jean,
discovers her mother has not only been murdered, but she had also been leading
a life of crime. Whoever killed her mom is now after Jean. Changing her
identity, Jean takes to the road, looking for a place to hide, a place she can
be safe. Midway across the country, she stops to get gas, and instead gets a
second chance. She’s taken under a kind stranger’s wing--Uncle Nick--and is
offered sanctuary at an off the grid cabin. The hitch? Uncle Nick’s handsome
nephew is the chief of police who’s interested in pursuing the intriguing
newcomer.
HE’S GOT TO STOP HER
Chief of Police Lawrence Crenshaw is not only
single, he’s sworn off women. With his family history, no good ever came from a
marriage union. Then the mysterious Jean comes to town. She’s not only trouble,
she’s in trouble, but she refuses to confide in him. Wooing her slowly, he
tries to convince Jean that not only can he keep her safe, but that she belongs
by his side. Does a small town cop stand a chance at love with a New York City
gal?
Running from her mother’s
killers, Jean goes into hiding.
A chance meeting with a small
town’s chief of police upsets not only
her escape plans but also
changes her life.
Amazon.com
and Smashwords.com.
Universal Link: books2read.com/u/mdYdlw
In print at Amazon.com.
OFF THE GRID is available at Amazon.com and Smashwords.com, in addition to other internet locations. Universal Link: books2read.com/u/mdYdlw
Here are some wonderful reviews:
Another winner from author Susanne Marie Knight! Jean Walters, a young woman in trouble, must hide from her mother’s killers. She plans to “go off the grid” to keep her whereabouts secret. Well, I can tell you, if going off the grid means bumping into police captain Lawrence Crenshaw, then sign me up! The chemistry between these two had me fanning my face!! This novel is a perfect escape from today’s busy world. OFF THE GRID is definitely a keeper!--Norwood Reviews
5 Stars! In today’s world, can anyone truly go “off the grid?” City girl, Jean, fearing for her life, changes her identity and looks for an out-of-the-way place where she can be safe. But Fate has something else in store for her. Her first day on the road and she runs into a police chief, Lawrence, who decides she’s the one for him. She’s as skittish as a colt, but he knows how to tame a wild filly. Who’s seducing whom here?! Be sure to scoop up this one!--Twists On Romance Reviews
5 Stars! Mystery and Romance. A girl full of dreams has her life turned upside down by events out of her control. She doesn't know who to trust, or where to go, but she must keep herself off the grid. Running for her life she finds refuge in an unlikely place. Losing everything, she finds love and happiness within her reach, but she can't put her friends at risk. What a dilemma! I love this book!--S. A. Santos Reviews
This book is part of the Romantic Contemporaries and Romantic Suspense lines.
For my real life tidbit, I thought I’d talk about OFF THE GRID’s dedication to my Great, Great Uncle Nick. Yes, Great, Great Uncle Nick is real, and I’m so very blessed to have met him and have memories of him. When my father said Uncle Nick was his great uncle, I didn’t really understand the relationship. I was young and frankly couldn’t put two and two together too much! If Uncle Nick was my father’s great uncle, then that meant he was my Grandmother’s uncle. Huh?!!
But that was true. There was a twelve years different between Uncle Nick and my Grandmother.
Uncle Nick had a farm, which was an amazing place to a city girl like me. He had cows, and I had my first and only experience of sort-of-milking one. Ooh! The milk came out warm and in a spurt! I also found out about cow patties! He also had turkeys and chickens. I learned that when a person gave a whistle, the turkeys actually gobbled! Uncle Nick had huge pigs. I remember one particularly HUGE one lying in the mud. This pig was supposed to be seven hundred pounds. And yep, Hoggen Harry is modeled after this pig.
Here are Chief of Police Lawrence Crenshaw thoughts about Hoggen Harry:
That was all the excitement in the big city, except for the sudden return of the stolen pig, Hoggen Harry. Harry, weighing in one hundred pounds less than his usual fighting weight of seven hundred pounds, had been found back in his pen, getting reacquainted with some of his female oinkers.
Maybe Harry had
escaped on his own and had a month long vacation, seeing the sights. Officer
Hammond was in charge of interviewing the bystanders, and that turned out to be
four-legged ones. No one at the station envied him!
For a glimpse into small town living and a
slow-to-percolate romance between Jean and Lawrence, give OFF THE GRID a chance
to win your heart!
Susanne Marie Knight
Read outside the box: award-winning Romance Writing with a Twist!
