Sweet Justice #1
Avon
February 2009
On Sale: January 27, 2009
Featuring: Payton Archer; Jessica Beckett
400 pages ISBN: 0061474126 EAN: 9780061474125 Mass Market Paperback Add to Wish List
The Sweet Justice thrillers will focus on the lives and loves of three women--a bounty hunter operating outside the law, an ambitious vice cop, and a former international operative with a mysterious past. These women give Lady Justice a whole new reason to wear blinders. And their brand of justice is anything but sweet.
Haunted and Obsessed She sleeps with a Colt Python in her nightstand and her senses on alertโJessica Beckett isn't taking any chances. Hiding a chilling secret, living in a world of snitches and felons, good cops and bad dreams, Jessica is a bounty hunter who brings lowlifes to justice. But not even she can imagine what she'll face when she tracks an online predator who has abducted a naive teenage girl.
Making Promises That Can't Be Kept Former NFL quarterback Payton Archer swore to his sister that he'd find her only child. But the police have no leads and the teen's trail has turned cold. Plagued by personal demons, Payton's never considered himself a hero. But this time he has to be.
And Fighting a Faceless Enemy Joining forces to save the seventeen-year-old girl, Payton and Jessica discover that she's nothing but a pawn in an insidious, terrifying global conspiracy. They're battling a new kind of criminal. And soon their race for answers will become a dangerous struggle for survival.
Author Note
Dear Reader,
Iโd like to clear the air and take the first step in my recovery program by
saying, โHi. My name is Jordan. And Iโm a โฆ Iโm a crime fiction author.โ
Oh sure, some of you might think this isnโt a big thing to admit. Some may even
envy my position, but Iโm here to confess that as a crime fiction author, Iโm
not a well person. Bad men speak to me in my headโand I like it. I visualize a
bloody crime scene and all I can think about is, โDoes viscera have a โCโ in
it?โ When I say, โIโm cracking open a caseโ Iโm not talking Heineken, people.
And making a good impression in my world involves shoe prints or tire tracks.
In short, what makes some people squeamish puts me on the fiction happy train.
Thatโs because crime fiction authors donโt think like normal people. We have a
warped sense of reality and of whatโs funny. If a man is killed from poisoned
chickpeas, this is tragic certainly, but Iโm thinking itโs a solid case of
hummuscide. And I play deviant games of โwhat ifโ scenarios in my head, like
what if tupperware could kill? What if coffee shops dispensed mind-altering
lattes or espresso was discovered as the sole source of global warming?
Besides talking about the voices in my head and tupperware, I wanted to share
what inspired my new Sweet Justice series with Avon HarperCollins and the first
book, EVIL WITHOUT A
FACE (Feb 2009).
In EVIL WITHOUT A
FACE, an illusive web of imposters on the Internet lures a deluded teen
from her Alaskan home and launches a chain reaction collision course with an
unlikely tangle of heroes who uncover a terrifying global conspiracy. Theyโre
battling a new kind of criminal. And soon their race for answers will become a
dangerous struggle for survival. With an international setting, these romantic
thrillers will focus on the lives and loves of three womenโa bounty hunter
operating outside the law, an ambitious vice cop, and a former international
operative with a mysterious past.
"EVIL is everywhere. Give EVIL a face by
sending
me YOURS for posting."
I used to live in Alaska (10 years) and I love
that EVIL WITHOUT A FACE weaves
in and out of that setting. On my websiteโs Story Behind
the Story for EVIL, I have images of the characters I imagined for the
story and the locales I used, places Iโd been to many times. The plot for this
story is ambitious and very fast paced, based on a real crime that happened in
2000 in Florida. And Iโm particularly fond of the main character in this first
book, my Fugitive Recovery Agent Jessica Beckett. Sheโs scarred both physically
and mentally by her past, yet her inner strength is so resilient. Her scars are
the imperfections in us all. But one of her most endearing traits is that sheโs
a real smart-ass. Normally, I fall in love with my male characters, but this
woman has stolen my heart on many levels. This new series electrifies me.
I know by now youโre thinking that I really love what I do. Iโm conflicted, I
suppose. Weighing the consequences of becoming a crime fiction author has not
been easy, but Iโm taking my recovery one step at a time. And Iโm optimistic
that Iโll find the right balanceโor be forced to find a whole new set of
friends.
For more information, please visit my personal website or browse inside
my books at my HarperCollins site.
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