With: Tracy Solheim
Congratulations to "Patricia B.", the winner in Tracy's giveaway. Thank you to all who participated!
Congratulations to "Patricia B.", the winner in Tracy's giveaway. Thank you to all who participated!
People always ask me where I come up with the characters for
my books. Most of the time, they just pop into my head chatting away.
Occasionally, they show up as a secondary character in another book I’m writing,
loudly demanding their own cover shot and HEA. But for my latest release, Recipe for Disaster, the characters are
based on real people. Sort of.
I got the idea for my hero, Griffin Keller, while watching
the nightly news several years ago. One of the stories featured a very hot
federal agent with awesome hair and dimples. I knew I had to write a book about
him. A little while later I was watching a sports talk show when one of the
anchors gave a shout out to his daughter who had just landed a pastry chef gig
at a prestigious Washington, DC restaurant. My writer brain had a field day
with a pastry chef and a federal agent on the run. It took me eight years to
fit their story into my writing schedule, but I’m glad these two finally made
it to the pages—and the White House!
By Tracy Solheim
Book
1 in the Men of the Secret Service series from Tule Publishing
Secret
Service Agent Griffin Keller always gets his man. And, his woman. In pursuit of an international counterfeiter known
only as "The Artist", Griffin stumbles across paintings that have
been unknowingly stolen from the White House and swapped with forgeries. His
only clue to the thief's identity, a dish towel from the White House kitchen.
White House pastry chef Marin Chevalier desperately needs a date to her cousin's society wedding. Unfortunately, her busy schedule and lackluster social life leave her little opportunity to meet eligible men. When a sexy Secret Service agent shows up in her kitchen—and just about everywhere else she goes—Marin believes she's finally met the perfect date. But as a series of frightening accidents and near misses begin to occur around her, Marin finds herself relying on Griffin as more than just her "plus-one".
The more dead bodies that pile up around Marin, the more Griffin is convinced she is the link to The Artist. Too bad he can't convince his libido. The curvy chef has gotten under his skin like no other woman. When the clues finally fall into place and Griffin realizes Marin is not the suspect, but instead the target, he'll risk everything in his arsenal to keep her safe. Even his heart.
White House pastry chef Marin Chevalier desperately needs a date to her cousin's society wedding. Unfortunately, her busy schedule and lackluster social life leave her little opportunity to meet eligible men. When a sexy Secret Service agent shows up in her kitchen—and just about everywhere else she goes—Marin believes she's finally met the perfect date. But as a series of frightening accidents and near misses begin to occur around her, Marin finds herself relying on Griffin as more than just her "plus-one".
The more dead bodies that pile up around Marin, the more Griffin is convinced she is the link to The Artist. Too bad he can't convince his libido. The curvy chef has gotten under his skin like no other woman. When the clues finally fall into place and Griffin realizes Marin is not the suspect, but instead the target, he'll risk everything in his arsenal to keep her safe. Even his heart.
Book 2:
Between Love and Honor (Ben’s story) coming Fall, 2018.
Book 3:
Shot in the Dark (Adam’s story) coming January 2019.
Buy links for Recipe for Disaster
Google: https://bit.ly/2IQIyJO
EXCERPT
After
Marin learns Griffin has only been paying attention to her because he thought
she was a suspect in the art thefts, she is taken to a safe house for her
protection from the real thief. While she’s there she keeps busy by cooking for
the agents on her detail. Things are going fine until Griffin arrives and the
two of them are forced to address the elephant in the room:
“Damn
it, Marin, I was doing my job!” Griffin was suddenly beside her.
The knife stilled in Marin’s hand. “Your ‘job’? Your job.” She slowly turned and pointed the
tip of the blade at Griffin’s chest. “Was it your ‘job’ to kiss me senseless?
Or how about when you had your hands and mouth all over my body, was that your
‘job,’ too, huh?” She jabbed the knife at him. “Or what about when you were
making me—”
“For crying out
loud, Ben can you give us some privacy!” Griffin yelled, his eyes never leaving
Marin’s face.
“Just when it was getting good,” Ben mumbled. “Come on,
Otto, let’s go check your pee mail. Maybe we’ll catch up with Adam on his run
while we’re out.”
“Put the knife down, Marin,” Griffin commanded once Ben
and the dog had left the kitchen.
Marin’s hand holding the knife shook, but she couldn’t
seem to get the rest of her body to move.
“Please,” he urged softly.
The knife landed on the
counter with clank. Her eyes stung and her face burned with humiliation. This
man had too much power over her. And stupid woman that she was, Marin was about
to give him more.
“You
kissed me,” she choked out. “Why did you do that? It wasn’t fair.”
He
stepped in closer so that their bodies were only separated by a distance the
same width as the blade of the knife she’d just tossed on the counter. Marin
breathed him in. Despite being exhausted and bedraggled, Griffin still smelled
crisp and clean, like a freshly showered man. The guy was a menace to women
everywhere.
“I
kissed you, Marin, because I couldn’t not
kiss you.” His soft voice was like a caress to her skin. “I’d be lying if I
said I tried to avoid kissing you. Because I really didn’t. Yeah, it was wrong,
but I’m not going to apologize. From the moment I saw you standing in the
pastry kitchen looking like an Amazon goddess, I knew I had to touch you. To
kiss you. And when I finally did, it felt anything but wrong.”
Giveaway
One print
copy of Recipe for Disaster for a US
winner. International winner will receive a digital copy. If a
romantic suspense book were based on your life, what would the title be?
BIO
Tracy
Solheim, author of romantic women’s fiction.
After years of writing reports and testimony for Congress, Tracy Solheim decided to put her creative
talents to better use. A two-time
finalist for the Maggie Award for Excellence, she’s the international
best-selling author of contemporary sports romance, romantic suspense, and
small-town second chance stories. Tracy
lives in the heart of SEC country, also known as the suburbs of Atlanta, with
her husband, two adult children who frequently show up at dinner time, and a
Labrador retriever who thinks she’s a cat. She currently serves as the vice
president of programing for the Georgia Romance Writers. When she’s not working
out with friends (i.e. lifting heavy bottles of wine), she’s writing. Except for when she’s reading, but according
to her, that’s just necessary research. See what’s she up to at https://www.tracysolheim.com/
Social Media Links:
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The Void...lol! Can't wait to read the new book!
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