Title: Shady Deals
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Author: Cindy McDonald
Publisher: Acorn Book Services
Pages: 196
Language: English
Purchase at AMAZON
Kate West and Dr. Holden Reese have put their
troubled past behind them and are ready to set a wedding date. There;s only one
thing in Holden's way: a powerful drug Lord at Keystone Downs Thoroughbred Race
Track has Holden under his thumb, and he's not letting go!
Kate's family is determined to get to the bottom
the of horse drugging ring, and when the West's get too close to the truth the
Drug Lord sends them a brutal message that can't be misinterpreted. Now Holden is on the run, and he's dragging
Kate with him.
Can he escape his indiscretions?
How long can he keep Kate in the dark?
And how damning will the truth be when it's finally
revealed?
Excerpt:
“Take your clothes off.” Dr. Holden Reese said, as
he closed the door to his veterinarian office at Keystone Downs Thoroughbred
Racetrack. His hot gaze slid over Kate West’s slender curves. He dropped the
deadbolt into the locked position. A shiver skittered down Kate’s spine as she
turned to him. She wore a red tank top and a pair of tight Levi Jeans. Her long
blonde tresses were pulled back into a ponytail. The florescent lighting
glinted off the silver hoop earrings that dangled from her ear lobes.
While her full lips parted, her eyebrows rose.
“Ever heard of sexual harassment, Dr. Reese?” Kate put in.
He strode toward her unbuckling his belt. He took
the vet box from her hand to set it on a nearby shelving unit, and then pushed
her against the block wall. Holden was six-foot-two of solid muscled male. His
deep brown eyes burned into her baby blues. Caging her between his arms, he
reached back to pull the band that held her hair letting it spill like a golden
waterfall about her shoulders. He fisted his fingers through the locks tilting
her head back to hold her in place. He said, “Oh, I’ve heard of it, Miss West,
and I have every intention of taking you on my desk,” he nipped at her earlobe
making his way slowly down her neck, “do you want to scream?”
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About the Author:
For twenty-six years Cindy Mcdonald’s life whirled
around a song and a dance: She was a professional dancer/choreographer for most
of her adult life and never gave much thought to a writing career until
2005.Suddenly, she felt drawn to her computer to write about things she have
experienced (greatly exaggerated upon of course) with her husband’s
Thoroughbreds and the happenings at the racetrack.
Why didn’t Cindy write about my experiences with
dance? You might ask. “Eh, believe it or not life at the racetrack is
more…racy.” Cindy says. “The drama is outrageous—not that dancers don’t know
how to create drama, believe me, they do but race trackers just seem to get
more down and dirty with it which makes great story telling—great fiction.”
Cindy didn’t start out writing books, The Unbridled
Series started out as a TV drama, and the Hollywood
readers loved the show. When the series didn’t sell, Cindy recalls, “One of the
readers said to me, ‘Cindy, don’t be stupid. Turn your scripts into a book
series.’” And so she did!
In May of 2011, Cindy took the big leap and
exchanged her dancin’ shoes for a lap top—she retired from dance. “It was a
scary proposition,” Cindy confesses. “I was terrified, but I had the full
support of my husband, Saint Bill. It has been a huge change for me. I went
from dancing hard five hours a night to sitting in front of a computer. I still
work-out and I take my dog, Harvey
Does Cindy McDonald miss dancing? “Sometimes I do,”
she says. “I miss my students. I miss choreographing musicals, but I love my
books and I love sharing them with readers.”
Author Guest Post:
Wow! How much do we love those courageous characters? You know the alpha males and the gutsy heroines that seem to ooze nerves of steel from their very pores. As authors we send our characters into situations we would never, ever, not-in-a-million-years get into, and we ask them to do it with keen finesse and dashing good-looks—well, okay, maybe a little stubble on their chin.
Ahhh, they are everything that we are not—and that is the beauty of it all.
I love to write in the evening, it is the quiet time of day, and my thoughts turn to my latest Unbridled adventure, and what dodgy debacle I will ask Mike, Shane, Punch, or Lugowski to walk into without hesitation. I finish cleaning up the dinner dishes, check to see what my husband is watching on TV, I pour myself a glass of wine, and then retire downstairs to my office, where my characters live inside my computer. They are waiting for me—sometimes in a panic, depending on what state of affairs I’ve left them in the last time we met. I click on the file, take a deep breath, a sip of the wine, re-read what I wrote the night before, and then I ask myself one question: what if?
Sometimes I could swear that I hear them groan when the what if tumbles from my lips, especially Mike West—his sense of humor doesn’t stretch very far, I’m afraid. Who can blame him? In the first book, DEADLY.COM I asked him to withstand electro shock treatments at the hands of a madman, walk into the fire to protect the women that he loves, and in book #3 of the Unbridled Series, DANGEROUS DECEPTION, he must come face-to-face with betrayal of an old reliable friend, and a notorious biker gang.
Ya gotta love Mike’s younger brother, Shane. The youngest West darts toward danger like a bee to honey. A bit on the hot-headed side, he’s also the playboy of the group, but he’s not been exempt from the wrath of my writing. His fierce loyalty to family put him in harms-way in Deadly.Com, and in my newest book, Shady Deals, the question what if will test his strength and constitution to the limit—it will take all the courage that he can muster to survive at the hands of his malevolent captor.
Punch McMinn is an enormous man and enormously soft-hearted. He keeps a cool head when trouble comes to call and trouble never seems to be very far from Westwood Thoroughbred Farm, or the West clan.
And then there’s Lugowski, Lieutenant Carl Lugowski, that is, he took a bullet for Ava in Deadly.Com, but in Shady Deals it is Kate West that drags him into deep do-do that will take a whole lotta guts to get her out alive.
My readers tend to love a newer character that emerged in Book #2, HOT COCO. Dr. Holden Reese, he’s handsome and oh, so sexy—but hold on to your hats, gals, cuz he’s not the Mr. Wonderful that your or Kate West thinks he is!
Truth be told we authors really don’t live that exciting or death defying life styles. Non-the-less at the end of our finger-tips we wield the sword of courage at our characters and expect…no demand that they come through. Is it because we wish that our lives were as exciting as theirs? Are we cowardly thrill-seekers? Truthfully, I must admit that I really don’t care. I’ve just poured myself a glass of chardonnay and my computer screen has just lit up my latest manuscript.
Hmmm… what if.
Author Guest Post:
Wow! How much do we love those courageous characters? You know the alpha males and the gutsy heroines that seem to ooze nerves of steel from their very pores. As authors we send our characters into situations we would never, ever, not-in-a-million-years get into, and we ask them to do it with keen finesse and dashing good-looks—well, okay, maybe a little stubble on their chin.
Ahhh, they are everything that we are not—and that is the beauty of it all.
I love to write in the evening, it is the quiet time of day, and my thoughts turn to my latest Unbridled adventure, and what dodgy debacle I will ask Mike, Shane, Punch, or Lugowski to walk into without hesitation. I finish cleaning up the dinner dishes, check to see what my husband is watching on TV, I pour myself a glass of wine, and then retire downstairs to my office, where my characters live inside my computer. They are waiting for me—sometimes in a panic, depending on what state of affairs I’ve left them in the last time we met. I click on the file, take a deep breath, a sip of the wine, re-read what I wrote the night before, and then I ask myself one question: what if?
Sometimes I could swear that I hear them groan when the what if tumbles from my lips, especially Mike West—his sense of humor doesn’t stretch very far, I’m afraid. Who can blame him? In the first book, DEADLY.COM I asked him to withstand electro shock treatments at the hands of a madman, walk into the fire to protect the women that he loves, and in book #3 of the Unbridled Series, DANGEROUS DECEPTION, he must come face-to-face with betrayal of an old reliable friend, and a notorious biker gang.
Ya gotta love Mike’s younger brother, Shane. The youngest West darts toward danger like a bee to honey. A bit on the hot-headed side, he’s also the playboy of the group, but he’s not been exempt from the wrath of my writing. His fierce loyalty to family put him in harms-way in Deadly.Com, and in my newest book, Shady Deals, the question what if will test his strength and constitution to the limit—it will take all the courage that he can muster to survive at the hands of his malevolent captor.
Punch McMinn is an enormous man and enormously soft-hearted. He keeps a cool head when trouble comes to call and trouble never seems to be very far from Westwood Thoroughbred Farm, or the West clan.
My readers tend to love a newer character that emerged in Book #2, HOT COCO. Dr. Holden Reese, he’s handsome and oh, so sexy—but hold on to your hats, gals, cuz he’s not the Mr. Wonderful that your or Kate West thinks he is!
Truth be told we authors really don’t live that exciting or death defying life styles. Non-the-less at the end of our finger-tips we wield the sword of courage at our characters and expect…no demand that they come through. Is it because we wish that our lives were as exciting as theirs? Are we cowardly thrill-seekers? Truthfully, I must admit that I really don’t care. I’ve just poured myself a glass of chardonnay and my computer screen has just lit up my latest manuscript.
Hmmm… what if.
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My Review:
This is the third book I have read in this series and I am awaiting the next release. I like this series because it is multifaceted and I and drawn into the world of horse racing and betting. There are so many things that can affect a race, and so many people willing to do anything to win their bet. I liked this book because it brought back old friends from previous books in the series, and we got to see them in a different light. My opinion of Holden definitely changed. I really was surprised at Kate's willingness to follow Holden, however I know that she loves him, and figured she would follow him. This book has a little bit of everything. It was not really a romance, nor was it mystery. It was a little bit of both interwoven with so much more. I am giving this book a 5/5. I was given a copy to review, however all opinions are my own. I also want to mention that I really liked the different animals and their personalities.
This is the third book I have read in this series and I am awaiting the next release. I like this series because it is multifaceted and I and drawn into the world of horse racing and betting. There are so many things that can affect a race, and so many people willing to do anything to win their bet. I liked this book because it brought back old friends from previous books in the series, and we got to see them in a different light. My opinion of Holden definitely changed. I really was surprised at Kate's willingness to follow Holden, however I know that she loves him, and figured she would follow him. This book has a little bit of everything. It was not really a romance, nor was it mystery. It was a little bit of both interwoven with so much more. I am giving this book a 5/5. I was given a copy to review, however all opinions are my own. I also want to mention that I really liked the different animals and their personalities.
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