Thursday, February 19, 2015

Book Tour {Excerpt & Giveaway} Asking for Trouble by Anna J. Stewart



A themed tour through Prism Book Tours.

Asking for Trouble (Tremayne Family, #1)Asking for Trouble
(Tremayne Family #1)
Anna J. Stewart
Adult Contemporary Romance
February 17th 2015 by Berkley InterMix


The Tremaynes are one of the most prosperous families in Lantano Valley, California. But money can’t buy everything—especially when it comes to love…

Morgan Tramayne has a heart of gold, but to keep her children’s charity afloat she’s had to resort to some less than legal means: donations from a notorious cat burglar who targets the wealthy. It’s only a matter of time before Morgan’s criminal connection blows up in her face—especially since her undeniable attraction to the man heading the investigation keeps putting her in tricky situations.

Former police detective-turned-investigator Gage Juliano has two goals: salvaging his career and nabbing Lantano Valley’s present-day Robin Hood. But when he meets a beautiful, curvaceous woman who’s more interested in helping others than amassing a fortune like the rest of the town’s residents, Gage finds his desires pulled in an unexpected direction…

Note: This novel contains some mature content.


Excerpt

“I thought I might catch you here, Inspector.”

Gage Juliano’s hand froze on the slender metal handle of the glass door to Lorenzo’s café.  The sound of the District Attorney’s voice kicked the jackhammer headache pounding behind Gage’s eyes into sync with his caffeine-neglected blood. His spine stiffened as his boss approached. “Sir?”

“I thought we agreed to ditch the ‘sir.’” Evan Marshall pushed off from where he’d been leaning against the real estate office next door and stopped beside Gage. He lifted his chin, took a deep breath, and smiled, no doubt catching the addictive roasted aroma that brought Gage to this door every afternoon at this time. “You didn’t think you could keep this place to yourself forever, did you?”

The corners of Gage’s mouth quirked. As a matter of fact, he had. “Can I swear you to silence?”

“Depends. How good is the coffee?”

“Good enough I’m regretting not bringing my gun. Sir.”

Evan laughed and slapped a hand on Gage’s shoulder. “My lips are sealed and the coffee’s on me.”

Gage may have only worked for the D.A. for a month, but he’d learned early on that Evan never went anywhere or met anyone without proper motivation.

“What’s so important you had to stake out my afternoon escape instead of knocking on my office door?” Gage asked once they had coffee in hand and were headed back to the historic brick warehouse that housed the D.A.’s office. The instant Gage took a long, throat-scalding swallow, his system calmed and zinged at the same time. The day righted itself once more.

Evan pulled out his cell phone and accessed his pictures, then turned the screen toward Gage. “You know this guy?”

The picture was blurry, as Evan had obviously snapped it through a glass window, but Gage couldn’t place the middle-aged, paunch-heavy, over-tanned man. The shit-brown suit he wore told Gage the man wasn’t a conformist. He had his own way of doing things. “No. I’ve never met him before. Cop?”

“Close. He’s a Fed.”

Despite the steaming coffee, Gage’s blood turned to ice cubes that clattered one by one into his stomach.

“An Agent Kolfax,” Evan said. “He called me into the FBI’s temporary office this morning for a meeting, and while I was waiting, I saw this on his desk.” Evan flipped to the previous photo, handed the phone over so Gage could see the document.

A solitary page of official FBI letterhead listing a string of contact numbers was topped with a fluorescent pink sticky note covered in almost illegible scribbles. Gage’s gut clenched as he made out a smattering of phrases and names, but one word stood out enough to raise the hair on his neck. “Why would the FBI be interested in the Nemesis case? And what does that case have to do with the Tremayne family?”


You’ve met Anna J. Stewart (or someone like her) before. She was the girl who spun in circles on the playground hoping her Wonder Woman costume would magically appear before playing cops and robbers a la Charlie’s Angels–as Sabrina (she was the smart one). Anna was the girl in the back of the class with a paperback romance hidden in her algebra book (and yes, she failed algebra).
Growing up in the 70′s and 80′s meant there weren’t a lot of YA books, so she ventured early into mainstream fiction and read Stephen King’s CARRIE at the age of 8. Discovering Nora Roberts and romance novels early in high school opened her eyes to the wonders of storytelling and the beauty of a happily ever after.

So here she is, many years later with an English degree from CSU Sacramento, an RWA Golden Heart nomination behind her, countless stories in her head, and a serious addiction to STAR TREK, SUPERNATURAL, and SHERLOCK. She recently wrapped up a nearly 8-year stint working as assistant to NYTimes bestselling author Brenda Novak where she helped run Brenda's annual online auction for diabetes research. When she's not writing or reading (which she never has enough time for!), she's working on dollhouse miniatures and tolerating her overly-affectionate cat named Snickers (or perhaps it's Snickers who tolerates her).


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