CAPED CURSED
BY
JANICE LANE PALKO
BLURB:
Bliss
Sherman doesn’t believe in curses—that is until she arrives at Cape Destiny,
North Carolina. Bliss comes to the cape
determined to make a name for herself and her new firm by accomplishing an
incredible engineering feat—moving the Cape Destiny Lighthouse inland before
it's swallowed by the Atlantic Ocean.
Bliss,
who has struggled with dyslexia, discrimination, and betrayal by her ex-husband
and former business partner, Jonathan, faces her greatest challenge when she
falls in love with the handsome, mysterious descendant of the lighthouse
keepers, Parker Swain, who is vehemently opposed to the lighthouse’s move.
When
someone targets Bliss, she begins to wonder if the curse that is rumored to be
attached to the lighthouse may be true.
Who is sabotaging her dream? Who
is trying to harm her? Who wants to kill
her? When all clues point to Parker, she
dismisses her suspicions, deciding to trust him and her heart. But as the evidence mounts against Parker,
she begins to doubt not only herself and her heart, but also Parker.
Can
she trust her judgment? Can she trust
Parker? Most importantly, when she is
trapped inside the lighthouse with him during a raging hurricane, can she trust
Parker with her life?
A
romantic suspense with all the seaside moody romance of du Maurier’s Rebecca
and the spine-tingling thrills that keep you turning the pages, Cape Cursed
casts a spell of sensous deception and seductive danger. A Category 5 of a romantic suspense
novel,Cape Cursed, barrels in packing a surge of suspense that knocks you off
your feet and a blistering romance that sweeps you up and carries you
away.
Excerpt:
When Bliss cleared the copse of trees towering over the parking
lot, she walked out across the broad lawn.
Stars were beginning to appear.
It was so beautiful here. How
could this place be cursed?
Bliss looked over at The Keeper’s House. It was dark.
She walked up onto the porch, and called Parker’s name into the screen
door. No answer. Perhaps he’d gone out for dinner.
Disappointed, Bliss walked back down the porch steps and
headed toward the Explorer. From the
direction of the ocean, she heard a faint barking. Parker and Beau must be down on the beach.
She quickened her pace and headed down the path that led
over the dune, toward the pounding surf.
Bliss trudged in her heavy boots through the sand, and as
she stood atop the dune, she saw Parker and Beau swimming in the frothy
sea. They were gray figures in an inky
ocean, and she could barely make out Beau, his snout pointed in the air, as he
paddled parallel to the shore.
The white cap of a large wave barreled in, and Parker
standing in waist-high water joined his hands together and dove into the bottom
of it, letting it wash over him. He
rose, his back to her, as the wave crashed upon the beach. As Bliss was about to call his name, the
words caught in her throat. The wave
spent itself on the shore and rushed out quickly, leaving Parker in thigh-high
surf. Naked.
Silhouetted against the darkening sky, she could make out
the carved muscles of his back, the narrow waist, and his chiseled butt perched
upon his strong legs. The same dark
shade of the ocean, he looked like some water-God rising out of the waves. She stood there mesmerized by his unbridled
masculinity, her mouth agape, admiring him.
If he was cursed, every many should be so unfortunate.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
In addition
to Cape Cursed, Janice Lane Palko is the author of the romantic comedy St.
Anne’s Day and the Christmas novel, A Shepherd’s Song. She has been a professional writer for nearly
20 years. During her career, she has
written everything from greeting cards to web content and has taught several classes
at the local community college including Building English Skills to Creative
and Memoir writing.
She is
currently on the staff of the website Popular Pittsburgh and has been the
executive editor of Northern Connection and Pittsburgh 55+ magazines, where she
also contributed to the editorial content, writing her own column and numerous
features. Palko has also been a columnist with the North Hills News Record.
Her work has
appeared in publications such as The Reader’s Digest, Guideposts for Teens,
Woman’s World, The Christian Science Monitor, The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review,
and The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and her essays have been featured in the books
A Cup of Comfort for Inspiration, A Cup of Comfort for Expectant Mothers, and
Chicken Soup for the Single’s Soul.
A graduate of
Union Institute & University with a B.A. in Writing & Literature, Palko
has won several awards for her writing including the prestigious Amy Foundation
Award of Merit. Her writings have also garnered accolades at the The Kent State
Writer's Conference, and she has been selected as Writer of the Month by
Oatmeal Studio greeting cards.
She is at
work on her next novel, another romantic suspense entitled Most Highly Favored
Daughter.
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