Thursday, June 13, 2013

Concrete Evidence Virtual Book Tour


CONCRETE EVIDENCE
By
Rachel Grant

BLURB:  

A year ago she lost everything.  Now she wants revenge…

Accused of stealing artifacts from a five-hundred-year-old shipwreck, underwater archaeologist Erica Kesling is determined to clear her name. She’s concealed her past and taken a job certain to give her access to the buyer of the missing antiquities. She's finally closing in on her goal when she's distracted by a sexy, charismatic intern who makes her want something other than revenge. 

But Lee Scott is no intern. He's looking for the lead conspirator in an international artifact smuggling scheme, and Erica is his prime suspect.  He’ll do whatever it takes to win her trust and get her to reveal her secrets, even seduce her. 

As Erica and Lee struggle to conceal their real agendas, the one thing they can’t hide is the attraction that burns hot between them.  When Erica’s quest puts her life in jeopardy, Lee must choose between old loyalties and a woman he never expected to fall for.



EXCERPT:  

Erica waited next to a display of Menanichoch artifacts. The wall-mounted signs gave a detailed history of the Menanichoch tribe and reservation. She stared long and hard at a photo of Senator Joseph Talon with Sam Riversong. Tommy was late. Where was he?

At last, she heard footsteps behind her but didn’t turn. She felt hands at her waist. Tommy’s hands. Close your eyes and think of England. Lips pressed against the nape of her neck. She closed her eyes but didn’t think of England. Instead she thought of Lee.

Self-loathing slid up her spine. Like she’d told Jake a year ago, she wasn’t a whore. “I can’t do this.”

“Do what, Shortcake?”

She whirled to face Lee. She couldn’t speak. Couldn’t think.

“Do what?” he asked again.

She had to say something, but confessing that her intern’s kiss was welcome in a way that Tommy Riversong’s was not was a bad idea. A very bad idea. She found her voice. “Get involved with you,” she said and slipped out of his arms.

You are here to find the artifacts. Lee Scott is a distraction you don’t need.





AUTHOR INFORMATION:

Rachel Grant worked for over a decade as a professional archaeologist and mines her experiences for storylines and settings, which are as diverse as excavating a cemetery underneath an historic art museum in San Francisco; surveying a coal mining town in Kentucky; and mapping a seventeenth century Spanish and Dutch fort on the island of Sint Maarten in the Netherlands Antilles. Rachel is a four-time Golden Heart® finalist and can be found on the web at Rachel-Grant.net.


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Rachel will be awarding a very special deck of cards issued by the Department of Defense to one randomly drawn commenter. Information on the cards is on her website: http://rachel-grant.net. Make sure you follow the blog and leave a comment with your email address to enter the contest.


5 comments:

Rachel Grant said...

Thanks for hosting and for including the information on the deck of cards!

Goddess Fish Promotions said...

Thank you for hosting

Sarah Andre said...

Wow, those archeology cards look fascinating! Can you give us one tiny hint of a pictured object?

I thoroughly enjoyed CONCRETE EVIDENCE especially your notes at the end letting us know which aspects of your story are real archeological events. (The exact ones I would have sworn were made up!) Guess real life IS stranger than fiction.

Nice blog, thank you!

Rachel Grant said...

Thanks, Sarah! I posted a picture of one of the cards on my website at http://rachel-grant.net/ConcreteEvidence-BonusContent.html.

The cards are mentioned in the book and I love them so much, I'm excited to give them away to one lucky reader.

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