This week's Thursday Threads spotlight shines on J. R. Richardson's whose incredible paranormal mystery romance, CURSED BY THE WICKED, hit the stores only yesterday. I'll be doing an interview with Jo during her Book Launch Blog Tour on March 10, so be sure to come back for that.
Here's the blurb:
Cooper Shaw lives his life under a pen name and
enjoys the anonymity it provides during his journeys across the globe as a
seasoned writer for a travel magazine. When his job lands him in his hometown
of Salem, Massachusetts to cover the famous Festival of the Dead, he soon
realizes that he can’t stay invisible forever as he faces ghosts from a past
he’s been trying to forget ever since he left.
The city holds nothing but bad memories for Coop
until he meets a quirky young woman with an old soul and curious insights by
the name of Finnley Pierce. While she acts as his tour guide through a town he
thought he knew, Finn helps him unearth the truth of his childhood and might
even begin to open up his heart.
By unraveling the mystery of his father’s murder,
Coop may finally accept who he is, where he came from, and perhaps even realize
what he wants for his future.
Here's an excerpt:
“I came by Geneva’s to see
you this morning,” I tell her. She slides her hands inside my jacket, around my
waist. She holds us together tighter.
“You did?” There’s a smile in her voice. I grin
but she can’t see it.
“I’ve gotten used to starting my days out with
you in them.”
“You have?” She leans back to look at me. She’s
stunned although I have no idea why. I’ve been so transparent even a bat could
see through me the past few days.
“Yeah,” I tell her, “I have.” I brush the hair
out of her face. Even through the rainfall I can see the blush in her cheeks.
This is the most vulnerable I’ve seen Finn since Geneva’s, when she thanked me
for handling Dan.
“Most people don’t like the way I’m so pushy
sometimes,” she says. “They find it offensive. Some might even say I’ve got a
smart mouth. Too smart for my own good, blah blah blah.”
She trails off at the end there and I laugh at
the way she thinks I’m buying that none of it bothers her.
“Come to think of it, you did say something I
found offensive yesterday,” I tell her half serious. She looks hurt but I can’t
stop the smirk from spreading across my face as I back her up against the
nearest tree.
She’s caught off guard by the move, I can hear it
in the way her breath hitches. “What was that?”
She tries to recover but she fails.
“I believe the term you used was friends,” I tell
her, narrowing my eyes. Her lips part, just barely. She swallows something down
then clears her throat.
“Isn’t that what we are?”
I move my head from side to side. “I don’t think
so, Finn.”
About the author:
A writer of stories and lover of life.
Jo grew up in Maryland with four siblings, three
parents and an endless number of cousins within the vicinity. Today she lives
in Florida with her two girls and a husband that shares her same sense of humor
and basic take on life as we know it.
Life is too short to put dreams on the back
burner.
She’s always loved writing, and always enjoys a
good mystery, so in 2012, Jo wrote a novel that was picked up by the good
people at Soul Mate
Publishing.
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