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Genre: Romance Suspense
Release Date: January 25, 2013
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Crisis of Identity:
Tess Copeland is an operator. Her
motto? Necessity is the mother of a good a con. When Hurricane Irving slams
into the Texas Gulf coast, Tess seizes the opportunity to escape her past by
hijacking a dead woman’s life, but Shelby Coleman’s was the wrong identity to
steal. And the cop that trails her? He’s a U.S. Marshall with the Fugitive Task
Force for the northern district of Illinois. Tess left Chicago because the
criminal justice system gave her no choice. Now she’s on the run from ghosts of
misdeeds past—both hers and Shelby’s.
Enter Trevor Smith, a pseudo-cowboy from Houston, Texas,
with good looks, a quick tongue, and testosterone poisoning. Will Tess succumb
to his questionable charms and become his damsel in distress? She doesn’t have
to faint at his feet—she’s capable of handling just about anything. But will
she choose to let Trevor be the man? When Tess kidnaps her niece, her life
changes. She must make some hard decisions. Does she trust the lawman that
promises her redemption, or does she trust the cowboy that promises her nothing
but himself?
Bio for Denise Moncrief
Denise
wrote her first story when she was in high school—seventeen hand-written pages
on school-ruled paper and an obvious rip-off of the last romance novel she
read. She earned a degree in accounting, giving her some nice skills to earn a
little money, but her passion has always been writing. She has written numerous
short stories and more than a few full-length novels. Her favorite pastimes
when she’s not writing are spending time with her family, traveling, reading, and
scrapbooking. She lives in Louisiana with her husband, two children, and one
very chubby dog.
How to contact Denise Moncrief:
Twitter: @dmoncrief0131
Blogger: www.denisemoncrief.blogspot.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/DeniseMoncriefAuthor
EXCERPT from Crisis of Identity:
The
room had already filled five times with sea-soaked bodies. The dead lay
head-to-foot, column-by-column, row-by-row, ten by twenty. Victim 973 had
scrawled her Social Security number down her left arm just as she’d been
instructed. I noted the number on my log and moved on, trying hard not to think
about the person, concentrating only on the morbid job some pushy cop forced on
me.
Across
the high school gymnasium, a man worked the other end of the column. As his
stealthy glances trailed me around the gym, the acid in my overwrought stomach
churned every time our eyes met.
“Want
to take a break?” His sudden question reverberated throughout the cavernous
space.
I
curled one tendril of hair around my left ear. “Sure.”
I
followed him into the locker room, grabbing a foam cup and filling it with
tepid coffee. The man did the same from another urn. The burnt brew left traces
of bitterness in my mouth. I rubbed my tongue over my teeth in a vain attempt
to remove the acrid leftovers.
My
mind turned off for a few precious moments as I ignored the makeshift morgue on
the other side of the wall. The man’s strong, masculine bass invaded my mental
hideaway. “They’re starting to smell ripe.” He gulped down another ounce of
artificial stimulant, staring at me over the rim of his cup.
My
insides flipped. “It’s been four days.”
He
nodded. “Most of these don’t have numbers.”
“Makes
it harder to identify them.”
He
leaned against a locker. “This group must have thought they were invincible.”
“Doesn’t
everyone?” I tossed my cup into the overflowing trash. “Think they’re
invincible, I mean."
“Certain
death. How do you interpret that? I
think it means, ‘I stay. I die.’ Must not have sunk in until it was too late.”
His sarcastic attitude unsettled me, made me want to defend the dead.
“They’ve
been warned before and nothing happened.” When the locals ordered an evacuation
two years before, it proved to be a false alarm. The residents of the Texas
Gulf coast weren’t so easy to convince this time. It seemed no one learned a
lesson from Hurricane Katrina. “And…we’re not dead.” Our eyes locked.
Someone’s
presence warmed my back. The site supervisor stood over my shoulder and
repeated his prerecorded rant for the millionth time. “Mandatory is mandatory.
The dead ignored the warning to their own peril. If they wanted to stay put,
the least they could do is write their soc number on their arms...just like they
were told to do. How many times did the news people make that announcement?
Write your number on your arm if you plan to stay. How hard is that?”
I
shifted away from him. I didn’t dare write my number on my arm.
“Suppose
the two of you take a few. You look wasted, and these guys…” He waved his hand
toward the gym. “Aren’t going anywhere.”
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