Spotlight & Giveaway: To Catch A Sinner by Lucy Wilson-Tagoe

Today it is my pleasure to Welcome author Lucy Wilson-Tagoe to HJ!

Hi Lucy and welcome to HJ! We’re so excited to chat with you about your new release, To Catch A Sinner!

 
Hi! Let’s get lost in a story together,
 

Please summarize the book for the readers here:

To Catch a Sinner is a steamy romantic suspense that features a relentless journalist and an elusive lawyer whose whirlwind romance is complicated by a connection that puts the things they care about the most at risk.

Sin is a journalist in search of a redemption arc after her career and love life crash and burn at the same time. She’s moves back home, to Washington, DC, and is making a fresh start with her family close by but old habits die hard.

Kwame is a career prosecutor coming to terms with the death of his mother. He moves back to DC to honor her final wish – to reconcile with his estranged, billionaire father. When he meets Sin, he thinks he’s found everything he’s ever wanted in her and her quirky, but loving family.

They fall hopelessly in love, unaware of the collision course they’re on with the sins of their parents and the demands of ambition.

Set in a fictionalized Washington, DC – it’s a story of love, found family, and the pursuit of a new American Dream.
 

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

“You’ve got one life. You deserve to live it.”

“All, everything, completely, and ten toes down, I love you.”

Please share a few Fun facts about this book…

• Even though it’s set in a fictionalized DC, the landmarks, restaurants, and museums featured in this book are all very real.
• The book’s working title was “The Day Everything Changed.” It’s now the chapter heading for the very first scene I wrote for this story. Now, that scene doesn’t happen until book 2.
• The artifacts referenced in the story are all real.
• The Potomac river was one of my loudest muses while I wrote this book and my characters spend almost all their time next to it.

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

Her fragrance and slightly chaotic energy that gets his attention first. For her – it’s his hands and confidence.

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

This made me smile so hard when i read it back because I am obsessed with clandestine lovers.

He places a hand on my jaw where it meets my throat and pins me in place with his smoldering dark eyes, making it impossible for me to deny him.
My breath hitches and my heart pounds even harder, and his face drops a fraction and comes closer to mine.
My lips tingle and I lean in, eager to see if his lips were as soft and warm as I remember.
“Sin,” he breathes my name and puts a hand on the side of my neck and tugs me closer.
Every single inch of me is leaning in, anticipation builds by the millisecond.
When he’s so close his breaths ruffle my lashes, I close my eyes and sigh, “Yes.”
The sound of the front door slamming coincides with the sudden retraction of his hand from my throat.
My eyes snap open and I scramble out of the car, pulse racing.
I glance back at him, my alarm tinged with disappointment that I won’t get to kiss him after all.

Readers should read this book….

If they want something to get totally lost in.
Early readers are saying things like: “every moment had me smiling, holding my breath and even learning something. this book captured my readers heart in so many ways. Too many to mention. you know when some books just sink into your skin and soul.”
 

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

I’m working on the second in this duet. I’m also working on a contemporary romance set in my Rivers Wilde world as Dylan Allen.
 
 

Thanks for blogging at HJ!

Giveaway: Blue Box / Get Red PR are happy to give away 2 paperback copies of To Catch A Sinner by Lucy Wilson-Tagoe (US Only, please)

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Excerpt from To Catch A Sinner:

“I’ve never had a one-night stand, either, Sin.”

“So why me?” It shouldn’t matter, but it does. I have to know.

“I didn’t want the night to end. I’d do it again. I have not a single regret that we met.”

Heat spreads from my chest up my neck and into my face. I tuck a lock of hair behind my ears. “I’m glad to hear that. Me neither.”

“I’m glad.” He pulls into my parents’ driveway, throws the car into park and turns so he’s facing me. “Friends?”

“Yes, absolutely.” I’m relieved as I shake his hand and ignore the way my palm tingles even after I let go.

He opens the door and then hesitates. “Are we going to tell your family we met before today?”

Horror makes my eyes wide. “No, no, no. You’ve seen how rabid my mother is about us being single? If she thinks there’s a small chance of something between us, she’ll start planning. Next thing you know, you’ll be bringing a case of Schnapps to my dad and ring shopping.”

I wrap my hands around my throat and stick my tongue out to mime choking
myself.

“He snorts a laugh. “Say less. What happened in April stays between us.”

“Deal.” I stick my hand out for his to shake.

“Deal.” He mimics the gesture but crooks his pinky finger.

I smirk. “You want a pinky promise?”

“We’re still getting to know each other. I need the reassurance that you’ll keep your word.” He winks and wiggles his pinky.

“Fine.” I roll my eyes but can’t fight my smile and wrap my finger around his and tighten it.

The brief brush of skin on skin sends little sparks of awareness up my arm. My heartbeat picks up. I tug my finger to free it, but he tightens his hold on me.

“What are you doing, weirdo?” I ask, trying to keep my voice light.

“Just savoring how good it feels to touch you one last time.”

I look up from our hands to find his gaze still trained on our fingers.
“One last time?” My voice is hushed.

He looks up at me and the humor that’s been dancing on his face since we started talking is gone. His eyes are bright and intent on me. “You understand why this is the most of you I trust myself to touch?” He uncurls his finger from mine.

I shove my hand into my pocket and trace the tingling skin around the knuckle he’d had in his grasp.

He places a hand on my jaw where it meets my throat and pins me in place with his smoldering dark eyes, making it impossible for me to deny him.

My breath hitches and my heart pounds even harder, and his
face drops a fraction and comes closer to mine. My lips tingle and I lean in eager to see if his lips were as soft and warm as I remember.

“Sin,” he breathes my name and puts a hand on the side of my neck and tugs me closer.

Every single inch of me is leaning in, anticipation building by the millisecond.
The sound of the front door slamming coincides with the sudden retraction of his hand from my throat.
My eyes snap open with a gasp and I scramble out of the car, pulse racing.

I glance back at him, my alarm tinged with disappointment that I won’t get to kiss him, after all.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
 
 

Book Info:

From Wall Street Journal bestselling author Dylan Allen writing as Lucy Wilson-Tagoe comes the first story in her new Blurred Lines Duet series…

Who gets to tell this story?
The sinner who lived it?
Or the saint who stole it?

Sin Sackey is driven by the same hardwired need as every eldest first-generation daughter—to make her family proud. And she built her career and chose her partners with that single goal as her north star.

Everyone said she had it all. And for more than twenty years, Sin let herself believe they were right.

Until a near-death experience makes the truth impossible to deny.

Her relationship is on life support. Her journalism career is in freefall. And the city she thought she’d conquer has chewed her up and spit her out.

With everything to prove—and everything to lose—Sin moves back home to Washington, DC, determined to start over. No more chasing shadowy criminals. And no more men who look too good to be true.

But on the eve of the first day of the rest of her new life, the saying about old habits proves painfully accurate.

A new lead falls into her lap, and Sin dives back into the story that nearly cost her everything.
Then, when a man who is all the things she’s sworn to avoid invites her to dinner, she says yes.

After everything she’s been through, it’s reckless.

But this story could resurrect her career—and take down an entire black-market empire. She’s closer than ever to catching its elusive leader, and she can’t let go now.

And this man—who makes her blush, makes her laugh, and understands things she usually has to explain—could be the one. So, she lowers her walls just enough for him to climb over.

But just when it seems her gamble might pay off, her lead starts to feel more like a trap. And the man she’s let herself love appears to be the one who set it.

To Catch a Sinner is a steamy, suspenseful friends-to-lovers romance between a relentless journalist and a mysterious lawyer with a complicated shared past. Set against a fictionalized Washington, DC, this fast-paced, high-stakes story explores reclaiming identity, challenging power, and the pursuit of a new American dream.
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Meet the Author:

Lucy Wilson- Tagoe is a Ghanaian-American writer and lawyer. She writes suspenseful women’s fiction and romantic thrillers that center characters from all over the African Diaspora and other parts of the Global South.

She’s an avid cook, a serial hobbyist, and a voracious reader.
She also writes contemporary romance under the pen name Dylan Allen and is a USA Today Bestselling Author.

Lucy studied history at Tufts University and Law at Howard University and The London School of Economics. A child immigrant and the child of immigrants- she calls the world home. She’s a self described nomad and currently lives in Maryland with her husband and their two children.
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