I've long been fascinated by the defense mechanism of denial. When the news
is too terrible for the human mind to deal with, the automatic first reaction
is a strong, "No!" I've seen parents of the students I once taught do it when
their children were accused of cheating. I've heard women do the same,
crying, "Yes, he did it this time, but it won't happen again" or "I don't care
what the witnesses say. I really know this man." I've used it myself, when
hearing that an accident took the life of a good friend.
In my May 2006 romantic suspense,
The Deadliest Denial,
the heroine, Claire
Winslow, has this same, human reaction to the news that her beloved husband,
police officer Spence Winslow, has been arrested for plotting her murder. In
spite of all the evidence against him -- and her own resolution -- when Spence
skips bail and tracks her down at their ranch during a violent Texas
thunderstorm, she is tempted to believe the wild story he tells her. Is
Claire's faith a knee-jerk response to Spence's seductive magnetism, the last
gasp of their dying love, or is it only her deadliest denial?
Colleen Thompson's first book for Dorchester,
Fatal Error, launched
a line of
fast-paced, steamy romantic suspense and was a 2005 RITA award finalist as
well as the winner of the Texas Gold award for mainstream fiction.
Fade the
Heat followed, acclaimed as an "exceptional novel of romantic suspense"
in a
starred review from
Publisher's Weekly. Future releases include
Heat
Lightning, November 2006. For more information, visit
Colleen's web site.
"The Deadliest Denial by Colleen Thompson an exciting romantic suspense with a
wicked twist."
-- Romance Junkies
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