You can never go home... but what if you could? What if you did?
This is the theme of my newest romantic suspense,
ENTANGLED. Here, the heroine, Patricia Presson Nichols, suffers a life defeat
and returns to her childhood home with her tail between her legs, so to speak.
She’s reinvented herself as Tricia Nichols and is determined to start anew,
however none of that matters. Everyone from her past refers to her as Pretty
Patricia Presson, the nickname from her youth that she hates.
GOING SOLO
After a humiliating divorce, Tricia Nichols née
Presson returns to her old neighborhood and focuses on rebuilding her life. She
moves back into her mom’s apartment and, while she works as a home health aide,
she takes college courses online. She has no intention of starting another
relationship or getting entangled in other people’s lives. Been there, done
that. Fate has other plans for Tricia as she unexpectedly gets reintroduced to
old friends, foes, former crushes, and her childhood nemesis--Steven McPherson.
Steven wants to make amends for the past, however now, for some reason, her
life is in great danger. And that’s putting it mildly. How many times has she
almost been killed? Time is running out for Tricia. Can she survive this
treacherous web surrounding all her former classmates?
GOING DUO
Billionaire inventor Steve McPherson has gone the
solo route, and obviously he’s been successful at it. Suddenly however, he
finds himself targeted to be eliminated because of a miraculous healing device
of his. Recovering from a serious car “accident”, he needs a home health aide.
Imagine his surprise when his helper turns out to Patricia, a girl he
thoroughly embarrassed in ninth grade. Patricia is just as lovely as he
remembered, and soon he wants her to view him as a suitor, not a patient. But
when her life is threatened repeatedly, he gives his all to save... and to woo
his pretty Patricia Presson.
After a humiliating divorce,
Tricia starts over again in her old neighborhood. Someone, however, is weaving
a tangled web around her to guarantee her... death!
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Here are some wonderful reviews:
“Oh, what a tangled web we weave...” ENTANGLED,
that’s the title of fav author Susanne Marie Knight’s latest romantic suspense.
Tricia Nichols returns home to start... or restart her life only to get
“entangled” with a cast of characters from her school years, in addition to her
new clients, and not to forget her domineering mom’s cronies. But not everyone
is glad to see Tricia back in town. Someone decides to put a bulls-eye on her
back, and soon she’s fearing for her life. If that isn’t bad enough, Tricia’s
newest client is the one boy who thoroughly humiliated her in ninth grade. Too
bad Steven McPherson is a billionaire now. And is a handsome stud muffin. And
says he wants to “woo” her. Instead of wooing, Steven has to protect her. Which
suspect is the villain... or is it more than one? Read ENTANGLED to find out!--Mystery
Maven’s Reviews
5 stars! ENTANGLES provides a rollercoaster of a
ride! Picking up the pieces of her life, Tricia returns to her old
neighborhood. While some things have stayed the same, a great many things are
different, proving that you can never go home again. Minding her own business,
she gets attacked by a bowl of pea soup, almost smashed by a rogue air
conditioner, shot at, nearly run over, dumped in an alleyway, and abducted by
an unscrupulous would-be thief. Plus she gets wined and dined by a sexy
billionaire. All this happens while she concentrates on her home health
clients. Do yourself a favor and get “ENTANGLED” up in this suspenseful
read!--Barry B. Reviews
This book is part of the Romantic Suspense line.
For my real life tidbit, I’d like to talk about
some of the people in ENTANGLED. While all of these folks are unique
characters, some snippets of dialogue and situations in this romantic suspense
are actually true and did happen to me. Before you get any ideas, no, I was not
accosted on a date at an ice cream parlour, or any other place, and none of my
friends were, either!
Here’s what master writer Stephen King has to say
about real life tidbits: “Interject some of YOU in your writing. What you
know or have experienced or that someone you know has experienced.”
Below are some true-to-life situations from some of
the characters:
Bob Beeks--overactive libido at age 8... or 10?
Yep, I knew a guy like that.
Brody Arturo~~persistant in asking me out several
times? Yep, that happened.
Darin Freed~~handwrestling in class? Yep, and
naturally, I lost!
Emma Jovitz~~best friend and as alike as two peas
in a pod? Oh yeah, BFFs.
Kent Daly. Well, I’ll let Tricia talk about this
guy:
As for Kent, he was still classically handsome and also extremely tall.
As Tricia remembered, she and Kent had never said much to each other in school;
they’d always been in different classes. She had liked to think that he noticed
her... in a good way, but at the senior dance held in the gymnasium, she’d
overheard him say to his much shorter dancing partner that there were some real
tall girls at the gym and that they weren’t good to dance with because of that
particular fact.
Her secret crush for him had died right then and there. She’d been tall
for her age, and that hadn’t stopped a guy--a shorter guy--from asking her to
dance. Unfortunately she and her dance partner had been next to Kent when he’d
opened his mouth. She couldn’t help thinking that he was actually speaking
about her.
Tricia shrugged. That had been a lifetime ago: thirteen years. Who cared
if this well-dressed jerk standing in front of her didn’t like to dance with
tall girls?
So
there you have it! For a modern day romantic suspense, try getting ENTANGLED in
my second chance romance. I hope you enjoy Tricia and Steve’s story.
Susanne Marie Knight
Read outside the box: award-winning Romance Writing with a Twist!
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