Like most women, every so often I get the urge for a
makeover. Usually this results in a new hairstyle or color. (We won’t talk
about the disastrous perm from the late 1980’s! Suffice to say, I let it grow
out as quickly as possible!)
However, lately, that urge has taken the form of new
covers for some of my books. I’ve recently begun to release my Emma Carlyle
ebooks and my previously out-of-print backlist romances in print as trade paperbacks. So, I though,
what better time to give them a makeover?
I started with my three romantic suspense titles. Love, Lies and a Double Shot of Deception was originally published in 2007.
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| original mass-market paperback cover |
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| 2012 ebook cover |
You can see the new trade paperback and ebook cover below. Quite a difference, right? I think it much better
represents the story and tone of the book, which Booklist called a “surprisingly dark and serious romance.”
Branding
has become an essential part of marketing for authors. Although my three
romantic suspense books are not connected as a series, I wanted them to tie
together in some way because the tone and voice of all three books are similar—and quite different from my humorous amateur sleuth mysteries.
Therefore, I kept the cityscape background and figures in the foreground for
each of the books.
Someone to Watch Over Me had
previously gone through a cover makeover. I kept the figures and added a
Philadelphia cityscape as a backdrop. Lost
in Manhattan originally had a New York City background and a figure in the
foreground, but I changed those up to tie in better with the other cover
makeovers.
Next
up, my backlist and ebook romances. Stay tuned!
Love, Lies and a Double Shot of Deception
Life has delivered one
sucker punch after another to Emma Wadsworth. As a matter of fact, you could
say the poor little rich girl is the ultimate poster child for Money Can’t Buy
Happiness — even if she is no longer a child.
Billionaire real estate
stud Logan Crawford is as famous for his less-than-platinum reputation as he is
his business empire. In thirty-eight years he’s never fallen in love, and
that’s just fine with him—until he meets Emma.
But Emma’s not buying into
Logan’s seductive ways. Well, maybe just a little, but she’s definitely going
into the affair with her eyes wide open. She’s no fool. At least not any more.
Her deceased husband saw to that. Besides, she knows Logan will catch the first
jet out of Philadelphia once he learns her secrets.
Except
things don’t go exactly as Emma has predicted, and when Philadelphia’s most
beloved citizen become the city’s most notorious criminal, she needs to do a
lot more than clear her name if she wants to save her budding romance with the
billionaire hunk someone is willing to kill for.
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Someone to
Watch Over Me
Dori Johnson is in hiding from the Russian Mafia. Six
years ago she committed a series of felonies in order to create new identities
for herself and her younger brother and sister. They’ve kept a low profile,
living in fear of their lives ever since.
When Niles York, Dori’s boss, offers her the
opportunity of a lifetime, she turns down the job, not wanting to risk
discovery. However, her brother and sister convince her that after six years,
she’s unrecognizable, and she can’t pass up such an opportunity. Reluctantly,
Dori agrees to become the face and spokesperson for York’s new retail venture.
Jake Prentiss suspects Dori is hiding a secret, and
he’s not going to let her jeopardize his friend’s business. As a former
government operative, he calls in
some favors and starts digging into Dori’s past. What he finds has him
convinced she’s out to sabotage York Enterprises. Too bad he’s falling for her.
Dori is falling in love with Jake, but she doesn’t
trust him. He works for the government, and she’s a criminal. But then her life
is threatened, and she has to make a decision that could either get her killed
or put her behind bars for a very long time.
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Lost in
Manhattan
One by one members of the Montgomery family have died
in tragic accidents. Photographer Sarah Montgomery is the last surviving member
of the aeronautics dynasty. After the death of her beloved grandfather, she
accepts the fact that her husband never loved her and initiates divorce
proceeding. On the way home from the lawyer’s office, Sarah is hit by a cab.
Days later she awakens in the hospital and has no idea who she is.
Industrialist Trent Caldwell harbors guilt over his
wife’s death. A passenger in the cab that struck Sarah, he now feels responsible
for her injuries. When no one steps forth to identify the woman in the
hospital, he arranges for Mrs. Kearn, his housekeeper, to care for her in his
home. Seeing in Sarah someone who just might draw Trent out of the darkness
he’s succumbed to since his wife’s death, Mrs. Kearn sets about playing
matchmaker.
But the Montgomery family deaths weren’t accidents.
Someone harbors a deadly secret and using skills perfected as a youthful IRA
operative, has systematically eliminated the family out of a need for revenge.
Realizing Sarah’s true identity, the assassin now has one more kill to make in
order to fulfill a promise made long ago.
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