Zapata
Border Series Book 1
by Harper McDavid
Genre: Romantic Suspense
When engineer Avery McAndrews is offered a last-minute assignment to the rough and tumble border
town of Zapata, Texas, she doesn’t think twice. Used to pushing past stereotypes, she’s sure this project
will earn the long-awaited promotion.
Instead, she’s thrown in the crossfire between warring drug cartels and soon discovers that her captor,
Javier Ramos, is more than just a power hungry drug lord. He’s crazy.
As lead attorney for the cartel, it’s Alejandro DeLeon’s job to manage Javier. But this time, Javier’s
cruelty reaches epic proportions, and Alejandro finds himself wanting to risk everything to save Avery.
Running for their lives with Mexico’s underworld at their heels, Avery and Alejandro discover unintended
and intensifying emotions, feelings neither sought and neither seem prepared to control...
As a child, Harper McDavid watched her mother ride the rollercoaster of writing books, swearing she'd
never do it herself. But some things are just hardwired, and luckily for Harper the world has moved on
beyond typewriters and ten-pound manuscripts.
Harper's gritty romantic suspense incorporates her own background in science and engineering and
work experience along the border. The result is a collection of brainy hard hat-wearing heroines that
occasionally swap out their coveralls for the little black dress.
Harper is the mother of three daughters and lives in the foothills of Colorado with her husband, two dogs,
and a fat cat. Her free time is spent traveling the world in search of that next story and perusing her local
library for funny book covers.
GUEST POST
Why
Write a Romance Set in Hell?
Why
write about the border of Texas and Mexico when a romance set on the
Left Bank of Paris is a much easier sell? It’s a good question.
With me, the questions run even deeper. Why write a book? A
romance–really? My friends have dubbed me the Reluctant Romantic.
A
thousand times, I’ve thought back to those first few sentences and
wondered what compelled me to write Zapata.
Part of the answer is easy. I had a project there. The same task that
I assigned to my protagonist, Avery. Someone was stealing my client’s
oil, and one of the site employees had disappeared, reputed to have
been murdered.
So
why didn’t Zapata
become a thriller? Maybe because a fairytale is necessary to negate
the harsh effects of reality. Or perhaps love derived from hardship
feels like the grand prize to me. I still don’t have a single
answer. What I do know is that I’ve grown attached to the rugged
landscape and its people. It’s the kind of place that gets its
hooks into you and doesn’t let go.
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