Deadly Double-Cross
by Sherry Roseberry
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Crystal James operates Gemstone, a skiing resort her father owns, settled at the base of the Grand
Tetons. She can survive in the wilds of the jagged range even if they are covered in snow. Lukas
Guarrad, a Los Angeles detective, knows his way around the big city but is at a loss in the mountains.
Especially when he’s afraid of heights. He’s trailing a cat burglar named Panther, who uses Gemstone to
fence his stolen goods, because the thief murdered Luke’s partner.
Crystal witnesses a homicide meant to look like a heart attack. Later she inadvertently hears a death
warrant taken out on her life. All other avenues blocked, she strikes out for the Tetons and stumbles
across Luke who has sprained his ankle. Is he the assassin? If not, his life is in danger as well. Plus in
his condition he’s no match for the elements. She is forced to haul him along.
There is a growing attraction between them. But can she trust him? Luke tries to protect Crystal from
Panther, but in the end will she be able to overcome her paralyzing fear of guns to pick one up and save
them both?
Love Only Once
by Sherry Roseberry
Genre: Historical Romance
Does love come again?
Granger Hawks firmly believes he can love only once. Not wanting a wife, but needing a woman who
could educate and be a mother figure for his daughter, he answers an ad for a mail-ordered bride,
requesting someone plain and unassuming, someone he wouldn’t become emotionally involved with.
Without love, emotions fade, leaving festering sores.
Tired of living off charity, Falisha Harrington travels to New Mexico in answer to Mr. Hawks’s petition.
Positive he doesn’t need a wife, but a governess for his daughter, she’s determined to convince him of
that fact.
The woman with large slate-blue eyes and platinum-blond hair is not what Granger had expected, and
he’s dead set on sending the beautiful Miss Harrington back to St Lewis. But a deserter kidnaps Falisha
for the money she’ll bring South of the border.
It’s one thing for Granger to rescue Falisha from white slavery. It’s another for him to admit he can find
love more than once.
Tender Deceptions
by Sherry Roseberry
Genre: Romantic Suspense
For all outward purposes, Michelle Grant is a sophisticated, San Francisco, society girl. But beneath her
exotic beauty lies a daring spirit that leads her into the dark, perilous streets of Chinatown. Masked as a
Chinese man, but named Mei Hwa, she’s part of a secret alliance that rescues innocent young girls from
the brothel cribs.
Dirk Andrews is out for revenge. His younger brother died at the hands of Celeste Grant, and he means
to make her pay. He’s found that the woman has made her fortune on coolie trade, opium, and brothel
slavery. Going undercover, he works his way into Celeste’s confidence.
From the first time Dirk met her, Mei Hwa intrigued him. Why her deception? Why walk the streets at
night dressed as a Chinese man? And why was she so intent on rescuing girls from the brothel cribs? It
was dangerous work, and not fit for a woman. As Mei Hwa and Dirk work together fighting the slave girl
trade, their feelings for each other grow. And he professes his love.
One morning Michelle hears a familiar laugh. With trepidation she glances into the drawing room to find
her Aunt Celeste with her arms around Dirk. How could he? How could he hold that woman? Had she
surrendered her heart to a traitor?
Sherry Roseberry was born and raised in a small town in Idaho. There were two things she wanted to be
when she grew up, a mother and an actress. From middle school to college her focus was drama. While
in a seventh-grade class her English teacher said that if they ever wanted to write for magazines like The
Readers Digest the articles had to be perfect in spelling, grammar, and punctuation. She admonished
the students to take English classes seriously
Roseberry remembers thinking that advice didn't pertain to her because she wasn't going to be a writer.
She was going to be an actress. Little did she know she would end up being an award-winning author.
Her drama training hasn't been wasted, though. She's been in several community productions and
written, acted in, and sold four plays to Eldridge Play Company. Three are still in print. She has adapted
the acting methods she's learned to accentuate her writing, and she's given numerous workshops
teaching others the same techniques.
But, she still remembers her seventh grade English teacher. She wishes she'd paid more
attention.
GUEST POST
I
CONFESS
by
Sherry
Roseberry
As
writers we are often asked where we get the ideas for our books. This
question, more often than not, has left me at a loss for words until
I realized that I’ve gleaned some terrific ideas from old movies,
especially those of the 40's and 50’s found on cable. Where else
can a person discover such a large range of juicy tidbits, one
liners, gags, and plot ideas in a day except from TV?
Did
you know that: if you want to shoot at a horseman riding downhill,
you aim at his knee? For a time bobbies in England were called
crushers? Adding nickel to gold will harden it? If an Adult swallowed
enough table salt, he could die of heart failure?
(What
a nifty way for an undesirable character to rid her/himself of a
rival, especially if the victim is a fanatic on taking herbs in
capsules. Someone could easily replace the herbs with salt.)
Old
movies are my downfall. I thoroughly enjoyed the beginning of I
Was A Male War Bride starring Cary Grant. He marches into the
heroine’s office with an armload of clothes and dumps them on her
desk. Their laundry got mixed up, but he purposely gives everyone the
idea that she’s left her things in his apartment. The more she
denies the implied accusation, the more he “tisks.”
What
a cute scene! With a different setup, this could be a delicious way
for the protagonists to meet, or to create friction, or it could be a
means for them to see each other again and make up.
In
Mazy in the Congo starring Ann Sothern, Mazy, a show girl,
dresses up and convinces the attacking natives that she is a witch by
doing simple magician’s tricks, thus saving everyone. The locale
could easily be changed to the early West and the natives to Indians.
The heroine could be running a friend’s traveling magic show when
the scene unfolds.
But
why stop there? What if the heroine is actually using the show as a
cover in order to dig up evidence that could clear her father of
fraud, but the way she goes about it could send her to prison? What
if the hero is sent out by Pinkerton Detective Agency to investigate
the case and rumors pertaining to a certain young lady only to
find...by golly, I think I’ve come up with another plot.
From
the cop shows, I’ve found different ways to defraud people out of
their money, learned what can spoil a good murder, and figured out
how to set up clues. Thanks to the talk shows, I’ve gathered a wide
range of scholarly nuggets from the molding of a serial killer and
the psychological makeup of a schizophrenic, to split personalities
and extreme life styles. All fodder for a good plot.
There
are other pluses! I’ve copied down last names from the list of
credits, written descriptions of the actors–-their personality
quirks, facial expressions, the way they walked, talked, acted,–-and
put what I’ve found on cards to file away. I’ve watched movies
and come up with a twists of my own.
If you want to try it, come on over. You bring the popcorn; I’ll
furnish the drinks. And if anybody asks, we’re doing research.
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