Blog Tour: Love is Murder Book Excerpt from Beverly Barton

BookTrib has put together a fantastic blog tour for Love is Murder that is a compilation of stories from 30 of the hottest bestselling authors and new voices writing romantic suspense today and it’s edited by bestselling author Sandra Brown.  To highlight each author, BookTrib developed a new twist on the typical blog tour by featuring a different author each day on some great blogs and you can follow along with the tour.  Today I’m going to share an excerpt from the book that comes from Beverly Barton.  Enjoy Poisoned from Beverly Barton…

 

Excerpt

I’ve been poisoned!

There could be no other explanation for what had happened to her. The recurring nausea, the horrific abdominal cramping, the blurred vision, the dizziness and mental confusion were a result of poison. It had been a deliberate, premeditated murder attempt. She had lived in fear for such a long time, watching her back, playing it safe, afraid to trust.

 

About Beverly Barton

A born romantic, Beverly Barton fell in love with The Beauty and the Beast epic at an early age, when her grandfather bought her an illustrated copy of the famous fairy tale. Before she learned to read and write, Beverly’s vivid imagination created magical worlds and fabulous characters inside her mind.

Movies fascinated Beverly, and by the time she was seven she was rewriting the movies she saw on television and at the local theater to give them all happy endings. By the age of nine she’d penned her first novel. She wrote short stories, TV scripts, poetry and novels throughout high school and into college.

After her marriage and the births of her children, Beverly continued to be a voracious reader and a devoted moviegoer, but she put her writing aspirations on hold until her children were teenagers.

When Beverly rediscovered an old dream of becoming a published writer, no one was more supportive of her aspirations than her family. After writing over seventy books, receiving numerous awards and becoming a New York Times bestselling author, Beverly’s career became her dream come true.

 

About Love is Murder

Prepare for heart-racing suspense in LOVE IS MURDER (MIRA Books, June 2012, edited by New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown, this original collection features 30 of the hottest bestselling authors and new voices writing nerve-racking romantic suspense today.

Bodyguards, vigilantes, stalkers, serial killers, women (and men!) in jeopardy, cops, thieves, P.I.s, killers—these all-new stories will keep you thrilled and chilled late into the night.

Go on vacation with Allison Brennan’s Lucy Kincaid, where she saves a man from drowning, only to discover he is in far greater danger on land. Meet Roxanne St. Claire’s “bullet catcher”—bodyguard Donovan Rush—who may have met his match in the sexually charged “Diamond Drop.” Debut author William Simon shows us what happens when the granddaughter of the president of the United States is kidnapped. And Lee Child’s pitch-perfect “I Heard a Romantic Story” puts a whole new spin on LOVE IS MURDER.

LOVE IS MURDER is the third Thriller anthology written exclusively by members of International Thriller Writers, Inc. Barely seven years old, ITW has a roster that reads like a who’s who of thriller writing, with 1635 members representing 28 countries worldwide and over three billion books in print. Headed by current co-presidents Douglas Preston and Kathleen Antrim, its board of directors has included such notables as Lee Child, Tess Gerritsen, Steve Berry, James Rollins, M. J. Rose, Carla Neggers, Gayle Lynds, David Morrell and David Hewson. More information is available on the ITW website, www.thrillerwriters.org.

Buy at:  Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, B&N, and Harlequin, Kindle, and Nook

 

Check out the Book Trailer

 

Again, be sure to join in on all the excitement over at BookTrib and read all the great reviews, excerpts, and Q&A’s from these fabulous authors not to mention that BookTrib has some great giveaways to go along with the tour!