When Lacy Telchev buries her husband she finds herself in treacherous waters. Igor, much older than Lacy, had secrets. Suddenly Lacy is being chased across Europe by men who believe she can lead them to those secrets. Evading her pursuers with the aid of a chance acquaintance, the handsome and mysterious Max ...
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When Lacy Telchev buries her husband she finds herself in treacherous waters. Igor, much older than Lacy, had secrets. Suddenly Lacy is being chased across Europe by men who believe she can lead them to those secrets. Evading her pursuers with the aid of a chance acquaintance, the handsome and mysterious Max Petersen, Lacy travels across Germany, Austria and Hungary, to a shattering discovery in Budapest.
Along the way, she meets three women from Igor's past. As Igor's story unfolds through them, Lacy is less and less certain who her husband really was. Who can Lacy trust? Will she survive to find out?
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About Romantic Suspense
If we agree with the Romance Writers of America as to what constitutes a romance novel, that is, a man, a woman, and a problem to be resolved before they live happily ever after, romantic suspense takes that basic recipe and adds to it the element of danger. All pervasive, life threatening danger. The source of this danger may be unclear to the protagonists and thus to the reader, until late in the book. There may be ambiguity as to who the villain really is, or even why the hero and heroine are being pursued. All this contributes to the chills and thrills of a really good romantic suspense.
Throughout the rollercoaster ride of a good romantic suspense, the relationship between the two central characters must grow and develop in a credible way. This is not always easy from a writer’s perspective. How do we make time for love in the midst of chase scenes and abductions and car explosions and other such adventures? It isn’t enough to have the two simply fall into each other’s’ arms as the curtain falls. A love story has somehow to be woven into the fabric of our story as the two race across continents, evade villains, and save whatever it is they’re trying to save.
And then there is the research. I know one must be sure of the facts when writing in any genre, but this seems to me to be particularly essential when writing suspense. What is police procedure in France or Italy or Germany? How do paramedics behave when they first enter an accident scene in Amsterdam? What’s the weather like in Rothenberg in October? Research is vital to writing any novel, but it is of particular importance when writing Romantic Suspense. It all goes to the point of believability, or more accurately, to the suspension of disbelief in the reader. Thorough research makes that possible.
I’m a great believer of on-site research. Google may be great, but when I set my book in Salzburg, I’ve been to Salzburg. When I describe a hotel on the Romantische Strasse, I’ve stayed there, and when I describe the taste of apple fritters in Germany, I’ve eaten them.
Throughout Romantic Road the places I set my story are places I know and love. I think this gives the book a certain credibility. It feels real.
I love writing romantic suspense. I grew up on the books of Mary Stewart, my favorite of her books being Madam Will You Talk, in which the reader is unsure until the last pages whether the male lead is hero or villain. Her books were great stories of suspense, although a little thin on the romance side by today’s standards. In today’s market, Nora Roberts reigns supreme, although Sandra Brown and Iris Johansen are also favorites of mine.
In all Romantic Suspense is my favorite genre in which to read or to write.
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About the author:
Blair McDowell wrote her first short story when she was eleven and has never ceased writing since, although only recently has she been able to return to her first love, writing fiction. During her early years, she taught in universities in the United States, Canada and Australia, and wrote several highly successful books in her field.
Her research has taken her to many interesting places. She has lived in Europe, Australia, the United States and the Caribbean and Canada, and spent considerable time in still other places, Iceland, the Far East, and the Torres Strait Islands off the coast of New Guinea. Now she travels for pleasure. Portugal, Greece and Italy are favorite haunts.
Her books are set in places she knows and loves and are peopled with characters drawn from her experiences of those places. The Memory of Roses takes readers to the Greek Island of Corfu, where a young woman finds her future while searching for her father's past. In Delighting in Your Company, the reader is transported to a small island in the Caribbean, with a heroine who finds herself in the unenviable position of falling in love with a ghost. The setting for Sonata is the city of Vancouver, with its vibrant multicultural population and its rich musical life, and the heroine is a musician who finds herself in unexpected danger.
In her most recent release, Romantic Road, Lacy Telchev, is pursued along Germany’s famous Romantische Strausse as she follows clues left by her late husband in order to solve a mystery that she doesn’t understand, while being chased by dangerous and cunning adversaries.
She hopes her readers will enjoy reading these books as much as she enjoyed writing them.
Blair is a member of the Romance Writers of America, Romance Writers of America (Greater Vancouver Chapter), the Romance Writers of America (Women's Fiction), and The Writers’ Union of Canada.
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