Don’t Miss Book #3 in the Partners in Crime Series!
Dear Reader,
Yes, it’s true! Dead Heat, the third book in the Partners in Crime series written under my pseudonym Jacey Ford, is now available! Dead Heat stars Daphne Donovan, a scarred ex-FBI agent who quit the Bureau after 9/11. Daphne has some major hurdles to overcome in Dead Heat—not the least of which is allowing herself to heal . . . and to fall in love with former Navy SEAL Sam Bryson. In Dead Heat, the Florida sun is hot, the chemistry between Daff and Sam is scorching, and the rage of a biochemist out for revenge is about to boil over!
Daphne Donovan is a wounded heroine, but she has a sense of humor about her situation. She can’t believe her partners have stuck her down in sunny Florida in February when she’d rather be cold and miserable up in the Northeast. She’s assigned to trail what she believes is a bank president’s cheating girlfriend, but the case takes a surprising twist when her client is murdered and Daff doesn’t believe the police’s conclusion that it was a suicide. She refuses to drop the case, and each clue she discovers leads her closer to a biochemist’s plot to kill the nation’s top CEOs.
Researching this book was interesting . . . and gave me the chills! It was frightening to read about all the biological weapons that have gone missing during the last thirty years. And don’t even get me started on diseases like ebola and smallpox. Let me just say, there is some scary stuff out there! Fortunately, in my little fictionalized world, good always triumphs over evil, so in the end Daphne gets her man!
I hope you enjoy Dead Heat, and if you can’t find it in your local bookstore, it's available online at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or New And Used Books.com. For those of you in Australia, Rosemary's Romance Books has signed copies of all three Partners in Crime novels.
In other news, I have another movie deal to announce! Match Game, my Oct. 2005 romantic comedy, has been optioned to Hollywood insider Ben Shahrabani. Ben’s sister Sarah read the book and pitched it to him for the big screen. He read it and agreed that it would make a great movie. Yay Sarah! Yay Ben! Ben’s got some major projects in production right now, and I’ve got my fingers crossed that Match Game will make it to the big screen someday!
My comedies are also burning up the writing contest circles this year, with The Tiara Club in the running for the romance industry's top award (the Romance Writers of America's RITA award), and also a double finalist in the Virginia Romance Writers Holt Medallion in both the Mainstream/Single Title and Southern Theme Categories. In addition, both Match Game and The Tiara Club are finalists in the Oklahoma City Romance Writers National Readers Choice Awards, which are our industry's version of the People's Choice Awards.
Happy reading!
Jacey Ford/Beverly Brandt
www.jaceyford.com
www.beverlybrandt.com