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Behind Your Back
by
Chelsea M. Cameron
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Expected Release: February 2015
~ A Note from Cameron ~ |
This past summer I
traveled to Edinburgh, Scotland for a book signing. It was my first trip
outside of the US and I was nervous as hell. While I was on the plane and
begging for my motion sickness medication to kick in, I started thinking about
a character I didn’t “know” yet. Every now and then I will get a character’s
voice in my head and not have a story for them. More often than not, my books
start with just one character. I don’t know where the story is going, or what
they’re going to do. I only have their voice guiding me. I told myself I wasn’t
going to work on anything new on my trip, since I already had existing
deadlines. But of course the voice ignored me. He kept talking to me. I
couldn’t resist, so I started working on his story in my gorgeous hotel room
with its view of Edinburgh castle. I wrote some more words at the Elephant
House, which is where J. K. Rowling started writing the first Harry Potter
book. Over vegetable lasagna and jasmine tea, a story started to develop. It
was different than anything I’d ever written. Told completely from a male point
of view. It was also a romantic suspense, something I’d been dying to try
writing, but didn’t think I had the ability to do. I called my mother in my
excitement and her words were “that’s completely different than anything you’ve
ever written.” This is that story. And since this story is so completely
different, I’m doing something different when I release it. In February (date
to be determined), you will not only get the first book on that day, Behind
Your Back, you will also be able to buy the sequel, Back To Back! No weeks or
months of waiting to find out what happens. You can read the two books in one
day if you want. Instant gratification. I hope you fall in love with these
books as much as I have while writing them.
~ Excerpt ~
She wears a wig and colored contacts the first time I see her in
person. Her electric green eyes are too memorable, even in a crowd. But
underneath the plain brown wig and the brown contacts and the bored expression
she wears, something shines through that she can’t cover up.
I recognize it right away, even if I wouldn’t have been
searching for her. Raising myself from my chair, I cross the coffee shop. She
watches her phone, pretending to be the kind of girl who can’t abandon her
Facebook page for longer than three seconds. But I know. I know her.
Her finger hovers over the screen of the phone, her shoulders
slump, but her foot jiggles just a little bit. Not enough for anyone but me to
notice. But I see it. I see her.
I pass by her table on my way out the door. I give her one
glance. A visual brush over her body. I know she sees me, but pretends not to.
She pushes the wig back and I can just barely see the flash of red hair at the
nape of her neck, along with a tattoo. I can’t see all of it, but I don’t need
to. I know that, too.
A Celtic knot.
I pass through the door and don’t look back. Her eyes follow me
down the street to the crosswalk and until I’m out of view.
She sees me.
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