SOLOMON'S COMPASS - Cover Reveal

Thanks so much for stopping by for the Official Cover Reveal for my second novel - SOLOMON'S COMPASS. Without further ado:

A missing belt—her uncle’s prized possession.
The lure of buried treasure.

And a sexy former SEAL who makes U.S. Coast Guard Commander Taylor Campbell crazy.

What more could any woman want. Right?

Taylor is on a quest to unearth her uncle’s buried treasure—a journey so far out of the realm of her real life she can barely fathom it. There’s one other minor glitch. Taylor's certain the buried treasure was all in Uncle Randy's dementia-riddled mind. Now he’s dead.

All the same, Taylor is in Rock Harbor, Texas, to settle her uncle's estate, including following his directions to the treasure—even if doing so means trespassing. When someone tries to kill her, Taylor's quest becomes personal. She tosses Randy's official cause of death—Drowning Due to Accident—out the window and starts looking at his Rock Harbor acquaintances. Could Randy's treasure be real?

Jake Solomon is in Rock Harbor under false pretenses. He loathes the charade, but if he doesn't follow the plan, his dad will make Jake's SEAL training feel like a day on the monkey bars in kindergarten.

The plan is to protect Taylor Campbell from the fate that befell her uncle and the other members of a tight circle of Coast Guardsmen called the Compass Points who served together on Point boats in Vietnam.

Due to the danger involved, Jake’s dad has ordered him not to become involved with Taylor. Disobeying his father was Jake’s first mistake.

Taylor is attracted to Jake as well, but she refuses to wait for Jake to locate the killer when she knows her plan will force her uncle’s murderer into action.

But the killer's actions are just what Jake is afraid of.

SOLOMON'S COMPASS

Available April 2

Exclusively at Amazon

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Thanks to everyone who is participating today in the cover reveal for SOLOMON'S COMPASS. I appreciate each of you more than words can express. Let me know whenever I can help YOU in any way. I'm happy to support you, too.

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Since many of you are hopefully seeing information about SOLOMON'S COMPASS all around blogland today, I thought I'd offer you a little more here.

Back in November, three different blogger-writers tagged me for The Next Big Thing meme. The other bloggers are Jennifer Shirk, VR Barkowski, and Jan Christensen.

I declined at that time, but with their permissions, want to incorporate those meme questions into whetting your appetite for SOLOMON'S COMPASS. So I'm going to answer some of the questions here. I'll go into more depth on the others in the coming few weeks.

What is the title of your book?
SOLOMON'S COMPASS

What genre does your book fall under?
Crime Fiction with a Kiss - Mystery/Suspense/Romance

Which actors would you choose to play your characters if it were a movie?
This was harder for me than it should have been because I don't know of any actor who fills the bill 100% for either character the way I envision them. The answer will probably be different for each reader. So I picked two options for each.
Taylor Campbell - Renee Zellweger or Hilary Swank
Jake Solomon - Hugh Jackman or Michael Fassbender

What is the one-sentence synopsis of your book?
When U.S. Coast Guard Commander Taylor Campbell discovers her uncle’s drowning death was murder, she must determine the killer’s identity in order to prevent another murder; it's Jake Solomon's job to ensure Taylor Campbell isn't the next victim.

Will your book be self-published or traditional?
Self-published

Next Monday, I'll answer another question or two. These were the easy ones :)

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Tomorrow - Tuesday, January 8 - I rounded up every smidgen of courage I possess and agreed to visit Mistress Snark on Laura Eno's blog. Pray I return fit to prepare next Monday's blog post.