My Red-Headed Stepchild.
According to the Urban Dictionary, the meaning of the above phrase is: A person or group treated without the favor of birthright. Sometimes, as my middle child, My Everything feels that way. Ben and Grace told me themselves. They made a very good point about getting the short end of the promo stick. So here goes - Ben McCall and Grace Rafael, it’s your turn!
Security consultant Ben McCall is alone. His wife and unborn child are dead, victims of an assassination attempt meant for someone else. Grieving, he disappears. When his best friend is in danger Ben resurfaces, only to find his friend isn’t the target of a murderer, he is.
Grace Adams is one of the walking wounded. Her husband died two years ago. One night she is incapacitated. A man comes to her aid. He’s the man she fell in love with years before, Ben McCall. As the passion between them reignites, Grace too becomes a target of the madman who stalks Ben.
Yes, this is a romance/suspense, but it’s also a sweet story. I fell so in love with Ben and Grace and had such compassion for their struggles that I did something I will probably never do again, I wrote them an epilogue - I wanted everything to come out right in the end. Like Job, who got back what he’d lost, I wanted to give my characters back everything they’d lost in their lives.
Thanks to Cris Griffin, cover artist extraordinaire over at Cobblestone Press and Jimmy Thomas, a major hot cover model, I got the above gorgeous cover. The book is available at Cobblestone and it’s just been listed on Fictionwise.
http://www.cobblestone-press.com/catalog/books/myeverything.htm
http://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/b110090/My-Everything/Julia-Barrett/?
