Friday Spotlight- @catromance Cat Shaffer's Bittersweet #TMPress @FictionWitches

Coulter Bancroft returns from battle seeking the peace of his family farm. Instead he finds chaos: his stepmother dead, his father dying and his fiancée married to another man. His pain reaches a new level when he learns his father’s will demands a legitimate heir by Coulter’s 30th birthday to keep his inheritance—and guardianship of his teenage half-sister.

Amelia Strong has her own secrets to keep. When Coulter takes her in after she collapses in front of his horse, bruised, sick and frail, Amelia can’t imagine that within a few weeks, she’ll offer to marry him and give him that heir if he will divorce her and set her up to begin a new life after the child is born.

What neither of them realizes is that Amelia’s beloved, listed among the war’s casualties, is actually alive and going mad. When he spots Coulter and Amelia in Cincinnati on their honeymoon and begins to stalk the Bancroft family, the result is a suspenseful game of cat-and-mouse game that can only end in death.

Author Bio: Cat Shaffer is a native Buckeye who saw the light and moved to Kentucky over 20 years ago. Able to say “Louisville” like a native, she adores living in the land of beautiful horses and fast women...no, wait, it goes the other way around! Away from the keyboard, she's a mother and grandmother, a Red Cross volunteer, and leads her church choir. She lives with a big Sheltie and a gray tabby who keep her humble by reminding her of her place as their servant. www.catshaffer.com

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What book(s) most influenced you as a writer? 

Oh, I ran the gamut from Issac Asimov to Rebecca DuMoire. Living in the country, going to the library was a big deal -- and we could get 10 books each time. Even then I loved stories with strong characters and a feel-good ending. 

What book do you read over and over again? 

Gone With the Wind -- there's just something about it.

Tuesday Trio-

1. Movie- Close Encounters of the Third Kind 
2. Music- Newer Johnny Cash (in his older years)
3. Decadent Dessert- New York cheesecake with cherry topping

What’s the most interesting or bizarre bit of trivia you’ve learned from researching for a novel?

While writing my vampire Ancient Shadows series (as Cammie Eicher) I did a whole lot of research on the Mafia code of honor and killing with liquid mercury, followed by ancient rituals. I am so glad the cops didn't seize my hard drive then.

Novel on your Nightstand:

Who/what are you currently reading?

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

Whom would you cast as your Main Characters/Hero/Heroine if your book became a movie?

Emily Deschanel as the heroine - Silas Weir Mitchell (from Grimm) as the hero.


Keeping Secrets (clicking image below will take you to the Smashwords book page)

When Miranda Coulsen accepts a summer assignment that takes her to Colorado and away from her daughter, she doesn’t expect to encounter the sexy Rik Hallowell. He’s even hotter now than a decade ago, when they had a brief, sizzling relationship that fell apart once she returned to Michigan and Rik went back to the family ranch.

Rik has returned just long enough to get the place back in shape and hire a manager. His father’s death and his brother’s decision to take off without giving the ranch a thought has trapped him there for at least the rest of the summer. When he encounters Miranda, he realizes the sparks are still hot and he’s quite willing to engage in another summer fling…or more.

But they’re no longer the kids they used to be. And the secrets they’ve harbored for ten years may be far stronger than the passion they both feel and the love neither is willing to confess.

Keeping Secrets is currently available in eBook on Turquoise Morning Press and will soon be available through all other retailers!

You can find out more about Cat Shaffer and her other work on the following-

Website/Blog

Amazon Author Page

Turquoise Morning Press

Smashwords Author Page

#FFF No Safe Place by Cat Shaffer @catromance @FictionWitches #TMPress

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Even small towns hide secrets…

When Lissa Williams loses both her job as editor of a hard-hitting news magazine, and her fiancé, in a one-two punch, she doesn’t plan to compound her troubles by first getting drunk and then into a sexy stranger’s bed. Nor does she expect to wind up in the tiny hamlet of Oslo, West Virginia, three months later, after her best friend is carjacked and left to die. Her shock at realizing that the first person she meets in Oslo is the same sexy stranger who had rocked her world in a single night, is softened by the realization he doesn’t remember her. But how long can she keep things that way when he insists on volunteering as her handyman at the wreck of a house she’s rented?

Folks in Oslo know Nat “Duke” O’Keefe as the man who’s taken over the town’s tow truck service. No one suspects his real job is undercover cop with an elite, multi-state task force investigating a sophisticated auto theft ring financing a global trade in illegal weapons. When a beautiful woman shows up in the two-bit town of Oslo, his boss orders him to cozy up to the town’s newest resident and figure out just what she’s up to. That suits him fine, until the sparks between them light a strange remembrance, a tinder of desire, and danger that may kill them both.