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Chautona Havig

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When Your Creativity Fails, Kill a Beloved Character:

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Jennifer Pierce offers fast-paced, nail-biting suspense with fun characters and the can't-put-it-downness you hope to find in good suspense. via @chautonahavig

Get your safety harness strapped on because this book will take you on a roller coaster ride of suspense, action, and all the feels. I’m talking about Jennifer Pierce’s, Deadly Connection, and today I’m talking with Jennifer Pierce herself!
We talk about her love of fiction, her iffiness with romance, and how she became an avid reader and writer of romantic suspense.

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When Your Creativity Fails, Kill a Beloved Character

Deadly Connection.  Where do I begin?  First, you should know that this book kicks off with just about everything it could. Ambiguous phone calls, orders to do something weird, a murder, an attempted kidnapping… arson.  We’re talking one kicker thing after the next, and here’s the deal.  None of it feels thrown in there for shock value.  It all makes sense!

A story that is fast-paced and crazy intense at times, you’re dealing with a mom protecting her child, a guy with a past… and well, so does she.  Just sayin’.

And it started off as a contest entry for Love Inspired Suspense.

When we talked about that, Jenn told about how she’d made a lot of requested changes, but one turned out to be more than she could do.  If she changed that, the villain’s entire motivation changed, and that would kill the story.  So, as teachable as she obviously is, she wasn’t willing to risk the integrity of her story in favor of trying to fulfill a dream.

BRAVA!

After all, would her dream truly be realized if she didn’t recognize her own book by the time it got changed?

Still, she told us a bit about another one coming up, and today I zipped her a reminder that readers like me want more.  Just sayin’.

What I also love is that her books are published by Anaiah Press and are far different from other Anaiah books. We’ve enjoyed hearing from Joiya Morrison-Efemeni and Sara Beth Williams as well.  Stay tuned for another Anaiah author, Allison Pearl.

Deadly connection Jennifer pierceBut Deadly Connection isn’t Jenn’s only romantic suspense novel!

With a few others in her head, she has two more in print.

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Not to mention a hysterical Christmas novella, Giving Grace.  Come on… with a Maltese named Bob, who mistakes mailman legs for fire hydrants, what’s not to crack up about?

Jennifer Pierce has a lot of books planned or in the works… but she says God hasn’t given her to go on which one to do next.

I sure hope it’s the first book she’s doing in the Suamalie Islands series with Celebrate Lit.  Or that wild cat story.  Or maybe a sequel to Deadly Connection.  Whatever it is, I’m just certain it’ll be good!

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Episode 480: A Chat with Tracie Peterson
byChautona Havig

 A chat with Tracie Peterson is always a treat, and this was no exception. Listen in as we talk about A Moment to Love, the last in the Hope of Cheyenne series. 

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I’ve been loving what Tracie is doing in this Cheyene series, but something about this book really hit home. I think the themes of revenge for heinous crimes and the indignity of our work being stolen are things we relate to whether it’s the 19th or the 21st century.

Also, don’t miss out on her Christmas novella collection with Karen Witemeyer and Misty M. Beller, On a Midnight Clear. 

A Moment to Love  by Tracie Peterson

A shared heart for justice pulls them together, but is their love strong enough to survive their trials? Dr. Carrie Vogel’s heart is shattered when her groundbreaking medical research is stolen and falsely credited to her ex-fiancé. With years of diligent work lost, she grapples with the disastrous turn of her career and leans on her faith for strength. When she learns that her Pinkerton friend Spencer Duval is on a justice-driven mission to her hometown of Cheyenne, she agrees to an arranged marriage to provide him with a cover story. But merely pretending to be in love with Spencer becomes increasingly difficult the more time she spends with him. Spencer is determined to apprehend the ruthless murderer who killed his father years ago, but his quest ignites unexpected emotions–both for Carrie and about the desire for revenge that has dominated his life. As the web of suspects tightens, their futures hang in the balance, and they must learn to trust God’s plan as unexpected love takes flight. Return to Cheyenne, Wyoming, with bestselling author Tracie Peterson for a journey of healing and forgiveness in this exquisite western frontier romance that will appeal to readers of faith-filled stories and When Calls the Heart.

Don’t forget that you can get this and her other books at 30-40% off with FREE US shipping from Bakerbookhouse.com

Learn more about Tracie Peterson on her WEBSITE. Follow her on BookBub and GoodReads.

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