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Nancy Drew

When I was eight years old, my grandparents sent me an intriguing Christmas gift. They lived in another state and always sent our presents early. This time, the box, while the same size as clothing, actually had something heavy in it that slid from one end to the other when you shook it. Trust me, I shook all the presents. 

So, of course, I slowly picked loose the tape on the wrapping paper a little at a time until finally, after a few days I managed to open one end of the package. Careful not to let anyone see me, I took the gift box out of that wrapping without ripping any of the paper. Inside, I found Nancy Drew’s The Secret of the Old Clock! So excited, it took all my willpower to put the book back in the box and rewrap the present.

The next night, after everyone had gone to bed, I went back down to the living room where we had our tree and got the book out of the box and read a few pages by flashlight. It took me the entire pre-Christmas time, about ten days, but I read that whole book by Christmas Eve. Then when I had to open it on Christmas morning, I acted so excited that I had a “new” story to read.

That night, my mom was sitting by me on the couch, and I was playing with some toy I’d gotten. She leaned over and said, “You opened that book before Christmas, didn’t you?”

Surprised she knew, I nodded. “How did you know?” I asked.

“Because if you hadn’t, your nose would be stuck in it and you’d be reading instead of sitting here not reading.” Then she whispered in my ear, “Was it worth spoiling your Christmas to look in the gift?”

She really didn’t want an answer. It was a learning experience. That was the last time I looked for or opened a gift before Christmas. I also learned that I loved mysteries and probably why I write Romantic Suspense.
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DRAINED

Who reports a homeless person missing? They’re already missing.

Three years ago, Brianna Matthews became a victim at the hand of powerful men and barely escaped with her life because her friend cared enough to search for her. From that moment on, she lived her life trying to pay the favor forward by working in a women’s shelter for abuse victims. When her coworker and a former resident in the shelter doesn’t show up for work, Brianna must find her. Enlisting the help of Homicide Detective Aaron Jeffers to go with her to check in on her friend, little does she know they would end up walking in the underworld of Cleveland’s homeless community.

They make the perfect target.

In finding Brianna’s coworker seriously ill, they promise to find her friend, a homeless man, only to discover his body in an abandoned building. Aaron, accustomed to seeing the dead, suspects this may be more than the natural passing of one Vietnam Vet living on the street.

The corpse is drained of blood.

Another body is found in a more public setting, this time with an attachment to the women’s shelter. Fearing Brianna might be in danger, Aaron keeps her with him as the investigation, along with their relationship, deepen. As the new Edgars Security and Investigations Group lends a hand, one of their own goes missing.
Can Aaron and Brianna find their friend before the killer claims another victim?

USA Today bestselling author, Suzanne Ferrell discovered romance novels in her aunt’s hidden stash one summer as a teenager. From that moment on she knew two things: she loved romance stories and someday she’d be writing her own. Her love for romances has only grown over the years. It took her a number of years and a secondary career as a nurse to finally start writing her own stories. Suzanne’s sexy stories, whether they are her on the edge of your seat romantic suspense or the heartwarming small-town stories or historical suspense books, will keep you thinking about her characters long after their Happy Ever After is achieved.

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CHEATING AT CHRISTMAS

When I was growing up, I was notorious for searching out presents hidden in the house. Mom, in desperation to keep me out of them, took to keeping the presents locked in the trunk of the car until Christmas Eve when she spent half the night wrapping them. Even wrapped presents weren’t safe from me.

Every year a box would arrive from Tennessee with presents from my grandparents and two aunts, usually all of them contained some sort of clothing item. The year I turned eight, my box was unusually heavy. Now my curiosity was piqued! I’d lift the box and slowly shake it. Something heavy scooted from one end to the other.

What could it be?

Left alone with the Christmas tree one day while my mother was shopping, I couldn’t stand it anymore. That was the day I became super expert unwrapping the taped end of a package to see what was inside. I slowly lifted the tape, until it gently released without tearing the paper.

I’d done it! Now to look inside.

Pushing back the paper, I slide the box out. Inside was of course a soft green sweater, but more importantly, the heavy object that had driven me nuts? A book. Not just any book. No, my aunts had sent me The Secret Of The Old Clock, A Nancy Drew Mystery!

Afraid of being caught, I quickly slipped it all back in the box and rewrapped it, making sure the tape stuck and the side I’d opened was hidden from my mom.

But the next day, all I could think about was that book. I’d never read a Nancy Drew book. Would I like it? Would the mystery be scary? What was the secret of the old clock?

It took two more days, but one night I snuck down, opened the present again, just as careful as before, then snuck the book up to my room. I read for about an hour, getting to know Nancy and her family, then decided I’d best get the book back into the box.

Christmas was just a few days away. Every night I unwrapped that present and read a little more, getting closer to the mystery and Nancy.

Then Christmas morning rolled around. I made sure to act very surprised when I opened that gift. And I was excited, because now I could finish the book and find out the ending! And wasn’t I cleaver?

Not really.

Later that day when I was curled up on the couch reading, my mom sat down next to me and asked me how I liked the book. When I told her it was the best story ever, she said, she was glad, since I’d been reading it all week. Surprised, I asked how she knew.

She said, “You really shouldn’t turn down the corners to mark your place.”

Prizes: In honor of that Christmas I’m giving away a set of the print copies of The Edgars Family Novels to one reader and a set of the Westen Series books to another reader.

Bio: Suzanne discovered romance novels in her aunt’s hidden stash one summer as a teenager. From that moment on she knew two things: she loved romance stories and someday she’d be writing her own. Her love for romances has only grown over the years. It took her a number of years and a secondary career as a nurse to finally start writing her own stories.

A double finalist in the Romance Writer’s of America’s 2006 Golden Heart with her manuscripts, KIDNAPPED (Long Contemporary Category) and HUNTED (Romantic Suspense), both available at Amazon.com and B&N.com. Suzanne has also won The Beacon Unpublished and the CTRWA’s contests in the erotica categories with her book, The Surrender Of Lacy Morgan (available from Ellora’s Cave).

Suzanne’s sexy stories, whether they be her on the edge of your seat romantic suspense, the heartwarming small town stories, or her steamy Western Eroticas, will keep you thinking about her characters long after their Happy Ever After is achieved.

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