Stella is. . .A Marked Man!

Susan: Okay, so she's a woman and her book title is A Marked Man. Sue me, I took literary license. But y'all didn't tune in to read me. You want to hear about this book! So without further ado, Heeeeeere's Stella.! Hey, girl. How was New Orleans last week?

Stella: Amazing–it’s always amazing. That city reminds me of a really good stew filled with the best and most unexpected ingredients.

Susan: What a luscious description. It’s obvious you love setting your stories there.

Stella: New Orleans has had more influence on me than any other city I’ve explored–including some I lived in for a long time. The moment I set foot in the French Quarter I feel I’ve arrived in the middle of a carnival, or in an old, French fairground. Not that I’m unaware of the seamy side of the city and the problems, but every city has those elements. It’s just that in New Orleans everything is more colorful, louder maybe, like looking through a kaleidoscope with sound. Nothing stays still for long yet I can sit back, watch, and soak up the whole thing. When I come away I see memories in my mind and they’re all really neon. New Orleans is drama, and drama is great story stuff.

Susan: Do you like the cover for A MARKED MAN? It sure looks marvelous on the stands.

Stella: I’m so pleased with this cover. There’s the seething atmosphere of the bayou country, but the human images are sensual. This is a steamy, sensual, suspenseful book. Yes, I think this is the right cover for the story.

Susan: But it’s what's between the covers that we’re really dying to hear about. So dish! Share a few sound bites about A MARKED MAN with us.

Stella: “Just the facts, Ma’am :)”

Susan: No, no, feel free to embellish

Stella: Annie Duhon is a fighter who has made her own breaks. She has worked her way from high-school dropout and victim of abuse, to achieving her dream. She is the manager of Pappy’s, Toussaint’s most popular place to dance and eat.

Confidence has been hard won and it isn’t easy for her to accept the obvious interest of Max Savage, a successful plastic surgeon. Is this incredible man in her life too good to be true?

Behind the public Max is the secret Max who was twice accused of murdering women and twice acquitted for lack of evidence. Legally, he is an innocent man. And Annie might never have had reason to doubt–or fear–him if another woman wasn’t missing, feared dead, right here and now in the middle of Annie’s exciting new world.

Max is a marked man who has unwittingly attracted danger to anyone he’s cared about. Now he loves Annie, and knows with chilling certainty that he faces one last chance to unmask a killer before there’s nothing left to fight for.

Susan: This is such a fabulous book!!! I gobbled up every word and wanted more. I’ll be waiting for the next book in the Toussaint series.