TITLE: ECLIPSE LAKE
AUTHOR: Mae Clair
GENRE: Romantic Mystery
PUB DATE: June 2014
LENGTH: 85K/254 Pages
BLURB
Small
towns hold the darkest secrets.
Fifteen years after leaving his criminal past and estranged brother
behind, widower Dane Carlisle returns to his hometown on the banks of sleepy
Eclipse Lake. Now, a successful businessman, he has kept his troubled past a
secret from most everyone, including his seventeen-year-old son.
But memories in small towns are bitter and long.
Ellie Sullivan, a nature photographer for a national magazine, has a
habit of ping-ponging across the map. Her latest assignment leads her to Eclipse
Lake where she becomes caught up in the enmity between Dane, his brother Jonah,
and a vengeful town sheriff. When freshly-discovered skeletal remains are
linked to an unsolved murder and Dane’s past, Ellie is left questioning her
growing attraction for a man who harbors long-buried secrets.
EXCERPT
Ellie stopped walking and turned to face him. “Why are you here?”
Dane
picked up a flat stone. With a flick of his wrist he sent it skimming across
the lake. It danced effortlessly across the surface as if he’d done the same
thing a thousand times before. “You know that skeleton they found?”
She
nodded.
“I’ve
got more skeletons than a graveyard. I can’t pick up and go to another place…to
the next photo shoot.” He turned to face her. “Half of my life is here and
half’s on the west coast. I have to make them fit together.”
The
revelation reminded her of the family she’d left behind in Idaho, reawakening a
familiar tug of homesickness. In an effort to find more comfortable ground, she
changed topics. “You told me you’re from San Diego. I did a photo op there four
years ago. What do you do for a living?”
“I
get by.” He took her hand and started walking again.
She
sent a speculative glance in his direction, recognizing evasiveness when she
heard it. He was wearing a Rolex, and though dressed casually, clearly had
expensive taste. Yet he’d booked an ordinary cabin rather than one of the
exclusive chalets higher up the mountain.
She
liked the feel of his fingers around hers, warm and firm. The contact sent a
pleasant tingle up her arm. What the hell was wrong with her, getting caught up
in his touch as if it were magic? As if she’d waited her whole life for that
sensation. He had skeletons in his past, a brother who couldn’t stand the sight
of him and a sheriff who wanted to run him out of town. Eccentric, or just
plain trouble?
ABOUT MAE CLAIR
Mae Clair opened a Pandora’s Box of characters when she was a child and never looked back. Her father, an artist who tinkered with writing, encouraged her to create make-believe worlds by spinning tales of far-off places on summer nights beneath the stars.
Mae loves creating character-driven fiction
in settings that vary from contemporary to mythical. Wherever her pen takes
her, she flavors her stories with mystery and romance. Married to her high
school sweetheart, she lives in Pennsylvania and is passionate about
cryptozoology, old photographs, a good Maine lobster tail and cats. Mae Clair opened a Pandora’s Box of characters when she was a child and never looked back. Her father, an artist who tinkered with writing, encouraged her to create make-believe worlds by spinning tales of far-off places on summer nights beneath the stars.
Discover
more about Mae on her website and blog at MaeClair.net
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3 comments:
Many thanks for showcasing Eclipse Lake! :)
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