You may be visiting direct from my erotic novels blog, in which I write under the pen name of Arabella Kingsley, either way this is a blog for my romantic suspense novels. These novels will be written under my real name, Sara Curran-Ross and here I will be posting publishing news, blurbs and excerpts of upcoming publications.
This first post is concerning publishing news. My romantic suspense/action thriller, Rescuing Rebecca will be released by Noble Romance in the very near future. If you love your stories packed with romance, sexy military heroes, thrills, car chases, explosions, danger, international locations, suspense, mystery and action, then this one is for you. As a taster, I have included the blurb and an interview with the lead male character.
I have approved a mockup cover for the novel and will be able to post it as soon as I receive the promotional images from my publisher.
Happy Reading!
Rescuing Rebecca
Award winning journalist Rebecca Eaton crosses the closed
border of a troubled Asian country to interview a Human Rights activist and
known terrorist. Three days later, after
her reported mysterious disappearance, she turns up at the border tortured,
beaten, minus her memory and one kidney.
When an attempt is made on her life in hospital, her
employer sends Eaton’s estranged ex-lover and security expert Dominic Kane to
bring her safely home.
Kane wants Rebecca back in his arms. But before he can entice her into a
reconciliation he has to help her expose a worldwide medical conspiracy
involving mass murder and the illegal sale of stolen human organs.
Kane has to protect Rebecca from the men sent to silence her
and the terrorists who demand she ensures the medical criminals are brought to
justice or four suicide bombs will be detonated in London.
Interview with Dominic Kane
The Man Behind The Woman
I am lucky to get this interview. The couple have been hiding from the public
eye and Dominic is at pains to protect Rebecca from further press intrusion so
she can recover from her ordeal and injuries in peace. So much so the veteran journalist, Kevin
Boyle dubbed him Rebecca Eaton’s “heavy man with a posh public schoolboy accent”
when he made the mistake of testing Dominic’s tough security around Rebecca in
the war torn Asian country of North Bundhara two weeks ago.
He gives me a grin, “What can I say? I was sent out there to do a job. He got in the way. Rebecca was lying in a hospital bed with serious
injuries and having lost her memory. The
last thing she needed was a journalist with a gripe against her hassling her
for information. I did what I had to and
removed him from the building in a manner he was unaccustomed to. He never came back.’ He gives me another infectious grin.
Dominic Kane is softly spoken with an accent that does
indeed betray an English public school education. He is a man of few words but his tone is firm
and commands your full attention. When
he speaks people listen. A former
Lieutenant-Colonel in the Royal Marines stationed in Afghanistan, Dominic is a
man who is clearly aware of his power and doesn’t have to shout it out.
He first met Rebecca Eaton when she came to make her BAFTA
award winning programme, ‘On The Frontline’ with his unit in Afghanistan. With Dominic in charge of Rebecca and her
camera crew’s safety the couple were rumoured to have grown close after the
unit came under heavy artillery fire out on patrol one day and Rebecca was
injured.
“We were ambushed in a compound. We took some heavy hits and I had no choice
but to ask Rebecca to pitch in and help out with the shooting. She’d had training like every other
journalist has to before they are allowed on the frontline and I just knew I
could trust her to come through. If I
hadn’t I wouldn’t be sitting here talking to you. So yes we became close after that.’
I widen my eyes as he leans over to lift his coffee cup from
the table and take a gulp. He is a
little reluctant to talk about their clandestine affair in Afghanistan and the
break up that followed but I persist.
“Rebecca became ill with post traumatic stress. She was forced to shoot at the enemy when we
were ambushed in the compound. After
that, she was nearly killed in an IED explosion. It was more than enough to effect
anyone. She tried to keep it quiet. Being a female journalist she had to fight hard
to go to Afghanistan. Any female
reporter will tell you how tough it is to build a career in such a male dominated
business.”
But Rebecca’s health was to deteriorate whilst in
Afghanistan and she couldn’t hide her illness any longer.
“She wasn’t eating or sleeping. She lost so much weight. One afternoon I found her inside her tent
rocking back and forth on the floor, lost in reliving the explosion. I’ve seen it happen dozens of times to men on
the frontline who’ve experienced trauma but Rebecca thought she was tougher and
could handle it. She needed help from a
counsellor but she refused so I had to take action.”
There’s a hint of frustration in his voice and he talks of
the whole affair as though he dealt with it like he would a military operation.
“I rang her station and got them to recall her. I . . . rather naively thought they would understand,
just give her some time off so she could get back on her feet. She was pretty annoyed. Told me I’d ruined her career and that was
the end of our relationship.” He sighs,
“And she was right. They let her hang on
until she won the BAFTA for them then they sidelined her and eventually pushed
her out. She was out of work for a
year. No one would take her on because
of her illness.”
I sense frustration but no regret in his tone.
“I never meant to hurt her or her career but I would do it
again. She needed help. Her doctor later told her that I’d saved her
from having a full nervous breakdown by making her return home.”
I get the impression that Dominic hadn’t wanted their
relationship to end and it was difficult for him to accept when it did. So it must have been harrowing to learn of
Rebecca’s disappearance two years later.
He must have feared the worse.
“I never believed she was dead. Not for a second. I knew she would find a way to get out of
whatever mess she was in. You can’t keep
a woman like Rebecca down. She’s a tough
class act,” he tells me with pride.
Rumour has it, he was packed and ready to go with his team
to locate her and bring her out of the country even before she was found and
her employer contracted his company to provide her with security.
He grins, ‘Yes. It’s
true.”
And by charging to her rescue no doubt he viewed the
situation as an opportunity to facilitate a reconciliation. He smiles again but won’t go into
detail. It’s enough to tell me that’s
exactly what was on his mind.
It must have been difficult to say the least finding her
lying in a hospital bed with so many injuries and having lost her memory.
‘Yeah it was.’ And
perhaps an advantage, I venture. He
merely treats me to another smile.
“She was in a really bad way. For one mad moment I just wanted to throw her over my shoulder,
fly her home, bundle her in a car and hide her in my cabin in the Lake District
to keep her safe. But getting out of the
country proved more difficult than I imagined when South Bundhara decided to
invade the North. There were a few hairy
moments when I thought we might not make it.”
It’s an opportune moment to bring up the nickname that
Rebecca gave him out in Afghanistan, Captain Caveman. He laughs.
‘She gave me that name when I wanted to carry her over my
shoulder after she got shot in the Green Zone in Helmand Province. She wasn’t impressed with my offer. She didn’t want me treating her differently
because she was a woman and acting like Captain Caveman coming to the
rescue. She says I’m a bit of
Neanderthal with her,” he laughs again.
“But secretly I think she likes it.”
He’s been credited as the man behind the woman fighting to
change the world and halt the medical exploitation of developing nations. How does he feel about that?
“I’m proud of it. I
will do all I can to help her. Rebecca
needs someone to ground her and keep her in check when she goes off recklessly
risking her life.”
And is Dominic Kane the man for the job?
He grins. ‘She tells
me I am and she’s right.”
He’s smiling but I can see that like myself and others who
know Rebecca Eaton well he’s going to have a hard time keeping her behind a
desk. She loves to be in the thick of
danger and he is going to have his work cut out for him. Still the steely gaze he gives me when I
inform him of my thoughts tells me he is determined and Rebecca is going to
have a fight on her hands. One Dominic
Kane may just win.
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