Passion,
Poison, & Puppy Dogs
A Danger Cove Pet Sitter Mystery
Sally
S. Smith & Jean Steffens
Gemma Halliday
Publishing
ISBN: 9781943587469
—In this dog eat dog world, it’s
people you have to keep your eye on.
When Lizzie
Jones, pet sitter extraordinaire, is asked to watch over her best friend's two
spoiled dogs at the posh gated community of Craggy Hill Estates, the last
things she expects is to wind up in the middle of a homicide. But that's
exactly what happens when she finds her best friend's cheating husband and
Danger Cove’s celebrity bodybuilder champ, Mr. Jupiter, floating facedown in
his hot tub. To make matters worse, the police aren’t looking any further than
the wife for a suspect—isn’t it always the wife? Well, not in this case—at
least Lizzie refuses to believe it.
Between
dealing with Craggy Hill's hot security guard, Tino Morales—who also just
happens to be the man who broke Lizzie’s heart in high school, caring for her
grieving friend, and watching three rambunctious dogs, Lizzie has her hands
full. So she recruits her famous granddad, retired network field correspondent,
Jimmy John Jones, to help her put two and two together to find the real killer.
Was Mr. Jupiter murdered by one of his women on the side? A jealous,
disgruntled employee? Or someone with a bitter and deep-seated hatred of the
superstar? It's up to Lizzie, Jimmy John, and Lizzie's own pug, Vader, to crack
the case before the killer claims another victim...this one much closer to
Lizzie’s own heart!
Excerpt: Passion, Poison & Puppy
Dogs
"I was
thinking about you too," I said. "I had a terrific time last night.
Dinner, dancing. What more could a girl ask for?"
He smiled
down at me, lifted my hand over my head, and led me to circle beneath our arms.
Humming softly, he pulled me into a slow dance and whispered in my ear,
"There are all kind of rhythms to the bachata. You like this
one?"
Whew. When exactly had his cute-and-cuddly
factor flipped the switch to hot and sexy? I was so caught up in the nearness
of him that I actually made it a few beats before stepping on his toes and
causing him to flinch in pain.
Dang.
"Sorry, Tino. I guess I should have warned you that I'm a notorious
klutz."
He was all
dewy-eyed and cuddly. "But the cutest klutz I've ever seen." And
before I realized what he had in mind, he bent his head, pulled me in at the
waist, and planted a kiss on me. Our lips met softly, then tightened as we
pushed against each other, caught by surprise at the heat we were generating.
I stepped
back, breathing hard. He blinked a few times and ran his hand through his soft
dark hair.
"Caliente,"
he said.
"Yes."
I shook my head to clear it. "You can say that again."
"Caliente."
Sally J. Smith & Jean Steffens
Author Bio
The
international best-selling writing team of Sally J. Smith (right brain) and
Jean Steffens (left brain) make up equal halves of one totally functional
writer’s mind. Creative and intuitive and organized and
systematic? What could be better than that?
The two
desert dwellers work together side-by-side, literally finishing each other’s
sentences, putting together their novels faster and more efficiently than they
ever could individually.
When their
heads aren’t together over a manuscript, you’ll find them with their families,
at a movie, the yoga studio, the mall, or out-to-lunch—in the food sense, not
the spaced-out sense, well…most of the time. Their current series include
Jordan Welsh & Eddie Marino Novels, Mystic Isle Mysteries, Danger Cove Pet
Sitter Mysteries, and coming soon, Aloha Lagoon Gabby LeClair Mysteries, and
Digby Sloan Mysteries.
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readers and always answer our e-mails: smithandsteffens@cox.net.
Sally J.
Smith and Jean Steffens, are partners in crime—crime writing, that is. They
live in the Valley of the Sun in Arizona, awesome for eight months out of the
year, an inferno the other four. They write bloody murder, flirty romance, and
wicked humor all in one package.
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