Christmas
in Dogtown
Suzanne Johnson
Genre: Sweet Paranormal
Romance
Publisher: Story Vault
Date of Publication:
December 2012
ASIN: B009RBKTSG
Number of pages: 30
Word Count: approx. 11,000
Book Description:
A
woman who spent years escaping her rural past learns that Dogtown,
Louisiana, hides more family secrets than just the recipe for boudin
blanc…..
Resa
Madere’s on the verge of losing it all. The boyfriend’s gone. The
job’s history. Her beloved house is on the brink of foreclosure.
She’ll do anything to save it—even spend a long Christmas holiday
working in St. James Parish, Louisiana, helping her uncle run the
family meat business. But the community of Dogtown, which has been
home for seven generations of the Madere and Caillou families, has
deep roots and deeper secrets. For Resa, going home is one thing.
Getting
out might not be so easy.
Excerpt;
“You are stupid,” Resa
told her reflection in the tiny, scratched mirror of the White
Castle’s rose-pink bathroom. “Stupid, ridiculous, and absurd.”
She’d been wrestling
with her curly black hair for a half hour, and the brown eyes that
stared back at her from beneath freshly plucked brows and carefully
applied eyeliner looked more jittery than sexy. “And idiotic.”
First, it had been almost
a week since Chan had asked her to the Saturday night community
dance, popping the question almost shyly as they hacked at the bodies
of gigantic dead fish. They’d both been covered in blood and
smelled like they’d been rolling in bait, which should have tipped
her off that anything in Dogtown reeking of romance, well, reeked.
Second, her potential
date had left immediately after asking her out so he could catch an
alligator that had eaten somebody’s poodle in one of those
backwater houses near the swamp. He burned rubber out of the Madere’s
driveway after making sure he had enough duct tape to wrap around the
gator’s jaws. Adequate duct tape was not an attribute she’d ever
sought in a man.
About
the Author:
Suzanne
Johnson writes urban fantasy and paranormal romance (under the name
Susannah Sandlin) from Auburn, Alabama, on top of a career in
educational publishing that has thus far spanned five states and six
universities—including both Alabama and Auburn, which makes her
bilingual. She grew up in Winfield, Alabama, halfway between the Bear
Bryant Museum and Elvis' birthplace, but was also a longtime resident
of New Orleans, so she has a highly refined sense of the absurd and
an ingrained love of SEC football, cheap Mardi Gras trinkets, and
fried gator on a stick. She’s the author of the Sentinels of New
Orleans urban fantasy series and, as Susannah Sandlin, the Penton
Legacy paranormal romance series.
Website and blog
www.suzannejohnsonauthor.com
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The cover is really cute.
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Congrats on the new book! I enjoyed reading the excerpt! This sounds like a fun and interesting read and I absolutely love the cover! I will totally have to check this book out!
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