Spotlight & Giveaway: London Calling by Veronica Forand

Today it is my pleasure to Welcome author Veronica Forand to HJ!

Hi Veronica and welcome to HJ! We’re so excited to chat with you about your new release, London Calling!

 
Hi! I’m so happy to be here.
 

Please summarize the book for the readers here:

A police officer searches for her father, accused of being a Russian spy. The MI-6 agent assigned to keep her safe must also locate and kill her father. Although there is romance, the heart of the novel is a race to find her father. No one is safe, no one is trustworthy.
 

Please share your favorite line(s) or quote from this book:

Police and ambulance crews arrived. The sound of the sirens echoed through Macknight’s skull. Lucy was dead. But Owen wasn’t.
He lifted Owen into his arms and waved away the ambulance workers, telling them his friend had passed out from the bloody scene. Owen could get medical treatment on the jet back to London. With a final look at Lucy’s remains, Macknight headed to the airport. Ross better have been abducted, because if he had any part in this, he was a walking dead man.

Please share a few Fun facts about this book…

The original title of this book started out London Calling. It was changed to Sins of the Father, then was changed to Daughter, Traitor, Spy, and then the Black Dolphin, the name of the prison in Russia. It was finally changed back to London Calling.

What first attracts your Hero to the Heroine and vice versa?

The hero is impressed with the heroine’s ability to hold it together no matter what is thrown at her. When the sky literally falls on her, she finds a way to survive. She’d not only tough, but intelligent as well.

Did any scene have you blushing, crying or laughing while writing it? And Why?

The scene that has me in tears is the fire at the cottage. So much happens, but they are all spoilers. The only thing I can promise is that the dog Fleming does live.

Readers should read this book….

The book doesn’t have a sex scene, but it has a romance that develops through the most trying circumstances. It didn’t fit the story in the middle of bullets, bombs, and car chases. If you love thrillers, this books should keep you turning pages.

What are you currently working on? What other releases do you have in the works?

I am currently working on a secret project!!
 

Thanks for blogging at HJ!

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Excerpt from London Calling:

Macknight escorted her in silence. Those veiled blue eyes and long black lashes of his, however, kept Emma’s interest for the entire walk. He opened the trunk and dropped her things inside. Perhaps he was an intelligence officer. He bore the same ambiguous expression as an overworked Secret Service Agent.
“Nice wheels.” She brushed her hand over the polished hood.
“Corporate car.” He held the door for her, and after she sat inside, he wiped her fingerprints off the hood with his sleeve and then went to the driver’s seat on the right side of the car.
She sank into butter-soft leather and shut her eyes. It had been too long since she’d slept in her own bed back in New Hampshire.
He pulled out two water bottles and handed one to her. “Thirsty?”
His water disappeared in about three chugs. His posture was upright, and his eyes were now bright and alert to everything around them. Her eyes were probably bloodshot.
She took a few small sips and placed the bottle in the cup holder next to her. “How long is the drive?”
“Not long.”
A heaviness fell over her. “It’s near the Tate Museum. How far is that?”
“Not far.” He let the car idle in his parking space for a few minutes while he read something on the screen of his phone. He didn’t seem to be in a rush. “Buckle up, and then you can sleep.”
“I thought we were stopping for food?” Her hunger was a step lower than her fatigue, but both were screwing with her ability to think clearly. The chocolate, still lingering over her tongue, was the only satisfying thing she’d eaten in hours.
“Can you buckle up?” he asked again.
“What about dinner?” Her voice drifted around her like storm-filled clouds, the kind that seemed heavy and ready to downpour.
“Later,” Mr. Articulate replied. He reached over her, pulled the buckle, and placed it in her hand.
She jiggled it into place, more than a little annoyed at being treated like a recalcitrant toddler.
Having never visited London, Emma watched the architecture and people blur by her window. Her father could be anywhere. His absence added an emptiness to her already aching stomach.
Her head swam, altering the sights and sounds around her. She couldn’t concentrate. This wasn’t normal fatigue.
Someone had drugged her.
“The water? You bastard,” she said before passing out.

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Book Info:

Small town police officer Emma Ross loves her simple life––but it takes a hard turn into crazy when she’s kidnapped by MI6 and is put under the protection of an over-bearing, albeit sexy, Scotsman. A man who believes she’s lying to protect her father—a father whom she had no idea worked for British Intelligence and is now missing.

Liam Macknight’s partner was assassinated and he’s certain Emma’s father had something to do with it. But the stubborn woman isn’t talking, and she’s determined to get herself killed trying to find out the truth. Locking her in a room does no good––he tried that. So he’s forced to work with her, even if he’s not sure he’ll ever be able to trust her.

When he’s assigned to kill her dad to protect the identity of British spies in the Kremlin, he knows what little trust they’ve gained is about to be destroyed forever…
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Meet the Author:

Veronica Forand is an award-winning novelist and attorney. She’s won and been nominated for countless awards including the Golden Pen, the Daphne, the Bookseller’s Best, and was chosen a Top Ten Finalist out of over thirty thousand entries in the James Patterson Co-Author Competition.

Her many careers included international corporate tax attorney, college professor, head university track and field coach,United Nations intern, homeschool mom, barista, waitress, and town road crew. She volunteered her time as a dog handler for Greater Philadelphia Search and Rescue and the Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area. She currently represents children in in Family Court.

A lover of education, a hater of tests, Veronica attended Smith College, the University of Geneva, Boston College Law School, and the Case Western School of Law.

She’s lived in Boston, London, Paris, Geneva, and Washington, DC and currently resides near Philadelphia. An avid traveler, she loves to roam across continents with her husband and kids in pursuit of skiing, scuba diving, and finding the perfect piece of chocolate.
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