It's Monday Moments again and my slot is showcasing a Crooked Cat author - Astrid Arditi - whose debut novel A Cunning Plan is being launched later this week on the 6th May, 2016.
I'm delighted that Astrid has sent along a great little teaser for me to share with you. You'll find that the novel is available for pre-order just now on Amazon, and other places, so use the link below if you'd like to get a jump on the ordering process!
Here's a little early taste of what the Romantic Suspense is all about...
Determined to put her family
back together, Sloane Harper stalks her ex husband and his annoyingly stunning
mistress, Kate. But she’s not the only one. Handsome IRS agent Ethan Cunning is
surveying them too, but not for the same reasons. He is attempting to nail
Kate’s playboy boss.
Ethan and Sloane decide to
help each other, which sends Sloane’s wobbly life spinning out of control.
She’ll have to face danger, humiliation, and scariest of all, the dating scene,
to lure her daughters’ father home.
Losing control was the best
thing to happen to Sloane… until it turned lethal.
A CUNNING PLAN
So far, I have spent more than ten hours this week
parked on the exact same street, in front of the exact same building, staking
out my husband’s mistress. To be exact, Tom was my ex-husband now, but I was
pretty sure he was still my husband when Katherine Stappleton started screwing
him.
A sideways glance confirmed Claudia’s eyelids had
finally closed, and I sighed in relief. If I had to listen to one more minute
of heavy metal, I would hurl myself or my housekeeper extraordinaire
out of the car window.
I shot my hand toward the Mini Austin’s radio. But
just as the angry voices faded in favor of a monotonous radio show, Claudia’s
hand lashed out and slapped my wrist away.
“Go back. I love that song.”
“But I don’t understand Polish,” I said with a
pout.
“It’s music, you don’t need to understand it,” she
countered, her eyes still closed.
My teeth hurt from the loud screeching she called
music. I considered looking for Magic FM again, but Claudia read my mind first.
She snapped open one fierce blue eye.
“Don’t,” she warned.
Heavy metal music wasn’t nearly bad enough to risk
incurring Claudia’s wrath and chancing her leaving. Listening to any kind of
music with her definitely beat sitting in the car alone.
I gave a last, longing stare at the radio then
turned my attention to the dashboard’s digital clock. It was 3:43 p.m.
according to the flashing orange numbers. Sighing, I thought again of how much
time I’d spent here.
The details of my husband’s ‘infidelity’ mattered;
they changed the way one perceived things. On one side, you had my ex’s new
girlfriend, and on the other, the tramp who stole my husband. Doesn’t have the
same ring to it, right?
The same way if you asked Katherine Stappleton, she
might have described my endeavor as ‘stalking’ rather than ‘staking out’. If
she knew I was hiding in front of her work place, that is, and I was
extremely careful not be noticed. Plus, I never left the car or followed her home - the definition of stalking. Legally speaking, I was in
the clear. I’d checked on Yahoo Answers.
Astrid Arditi was born from
a French father and Swedish mother. She lived in Paris
and Rome before moving to London
After dabbling in
journalism, interning at Glamour magazine, and teaching kindergarten, Arditi
returned to her first love: writing.
She now splits her time
between raising her kids (a brand new baby boy just joined the family) and making
up stories.
A Cunning Plan is Arditi's
first published work.
BUY LINKS
Astrid blogs at www.astridarditi.com
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