*~*Embrace…Endless Possibilities Release Launch & Tour – Trouble Comes Knocking by Mary Duncanson*~*

 

It’s hard not to answer when trouble comes knocking 

A girl who can’t forget… 

Twenty-two-year-old Lucy Carver is like Sherlock Holmes in ballet flats, but her eidetic memory is more albatross than asset, and something she usually keeps hidden. When she notices that something’s amiss at her dead-end job, she jumps at the chance to finally use her ability for good. That is, until, a man is murdered, and she becomes the target of the killer. 

A detective on his first case… 

Detective Eli Reyes is overbearing, pompous, way too hot for Lucy’s own good, and seems as determined to ruin her relationship with her boyfriend, John, as finding the murderer. He brings Lucy in on the case, thinking she can help him get to the truth, only to cut her loose when he realizes he’s gotten far more than he ever bargained for. 

A past that won’t go away… 

When memories from her childhood invade her present, Lucy discovers a mystery bigger than she could have imagined. With the killer still after her, and Eli nowhere to be found, she takes things into her own hands, determined to expose the truth no matter what—before trouble comes knocking…again. 

 

 

Her theory of attraction is about to get a new angle. 

Spring Honeycutt wants two things: to ace her sustainable living thesis and to save the environment. Both seem hopelessly unobtainable until her college professor suggests that with a new angle, her paper could be published. Spring swears she’ll do whatever it takes to ensure that happens. 

“Whatever it takes,” however, means forming a partnership with the very hot, very privileged, very conceited Henry Knightly. 

Henry is Spring’s only hope at publication, but he’s also the über-rich son of a land developer and cash-strapped Spring’s polar opposite. Too bad she can’t help being attracted to the way he pushes her buttons, both politically and physically.  As they work on her thesis, Spring finds there’s more to Henry than his old money and argyle sweaters…but can she drop the loud-and-proud act long enough to let him in? Suddenly, choosing between what she wants and what she needs puts Spring at odds with everything she believes in. 

Definitely, Maybe in Love is a modern take on Pride and Prejudice that proves true love is worth risking a little pride. 

 

Hell is looking for a way to break loose… 

Jax lost the genetic lottery. Descended from Cain, the world’s first murderer, he’s plagued by a curse that demands violence in exchange for his happiness. He left everything behind, including the girl he loved, but thriving on the pain of others is lonely… And it’s killing him.

After a series of heartbreaking losses, Samantha put rubber to pavement and headed for college as fast as her clunker could carry her. But she can’t outrun her problems. When an attack at school drives her back home, she’s thrown into the path of a past—and a guy—she’s been trying to forget.

Sam strains Jax’s control over his darkness, but running isn’t an option this time. Someone—or, something—followed her home from school: a ruthless monster with a twisted plan centuries in the making. Forced together to survive, and fighting an attraction that could destroy them both, Jax and Sam must stop a killer bent on revenge.

 

 

He’s loved her. Killed for her. Yet he may not be able to save her. 

Eighteen-year-old Archer couldn’t protect his best friend, Vivian, from what happened when they were kids. Since then, he’s never stopped trying to shelter her from everything else. It doesn’t matter that Vivian only uses him when skipping from one toxic relationship to another. Archer is always there, reeled in and tossed out, waiting to be noticed.

Then Evan Bishop breezes into town with a warm smile and calming touch, and Archer can’t deny his attraction to him. Evan is the only person who keeps him around without a single string attached. And the harder Archer falls for Evan, the more he sees Vivian for the manipulative hot-mess she really is.

But Viv has her hooks in deep, and once she finds out Archer’s dark secret, she threatens to expose the truth if she doesn’t get what she wants. And what she wants is for him to end his relationship with Evan…permanently. 

 

 

Detective Reyes looked up from his notepad, closed it, and leaned back in his chair, causing his shirt to pull even tighter. “Make me understand.”

All my experience living with what I do, what I can’t control, taught me that eventually I’d probably end up in jail or dead because of it. People don’t like to have their thoughts invaded without their consent. “What am I supposed to explain? We talked; he was nice. Offered me pizza, and then he said they weren’t involved. Look, I’m really not a part of any of this. I just started this job. I really have no idea who the man is, and I only talked to him once. Can I go home, please? I’m supposed to work tomorrow morning.”

“Work should be the least of your concerns. A man is dead. A man you spoke to about a serious allegation on his last day of life. If there is some reason something you said might have gotten him killed, we have to know about it. This is a murder investigation, Lucy.” He paused.

“Do you mind if I call you Lucy?”

“That’s fine.” I shrank in my chair. Jail, it seemed. My world closed around me as I imagined how guilty I must look for something I didn’t do. I didn’t mean to find problems, and I doubted my information killed Mr. Winters, but who’s to say? Half a million is a lot of money. As the thought hit my head, so did another. “Am I in danger?”

Detective Reyes sat up. “Should you be?”

That’s when I spilled it, all of it. And to his defense the detective held his mask of intent listening through my entire story. “So you’re saying you have a photographic memory and you happened to observe the loss of a great deal of money on the same day Mr. Winters died. Mr. Winters, the head of the accounting department and probably one of the top suspects were this loss, if there is a loss, to come to light.”

I’d been excited at first that he understood, but as he spoke further, that excitement faded

as I caught the sarcasm in his tone. “Eidetic,” I said, in defense of what I can do. “The proper term is eidetic memory.” Jackhole.

Wake Up – Arcade Fire

You Know I’m No Good – Amy Winehouse

Demons – Imagine Dragons

Be Calm – Fun.

Love Save the Empty – Erin McCarley

I Wonder – Rodriguez

Put Your Records On – Corinne Bailey Rae

Blood of the Rose – The Dear Hunter

Come Round Soon – Sara Bareilles

Keep Your Hands Off My Girl – Good Charlotte

Need You Now – Lady Antebellum

Where I stood – Missy Higgins

Black Sheep – Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

Maybe Tomorrow – Stereophonics

A Change is Gonna Come – Seal

The Shadow of the Day – Linkin Park

Smack – 3 Doors Down

Home – Phillip Phillips

I Didn’t Know – Alex Lambert

Beat the Devil’s Tattoo – BRMC

Not Afraid – Eminem

High Heel Leather Boots – Baby Bee

Falling Apart – Zebrahead

Under Cover of Darkness – The Strokes

You Know I’m No Good – Amy Winehouse

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Mary Duncanson, who also writes as Mary Malcolm, lives in North Texas with a menagerie of animals and feral roommates. She is currently looking to adopt a husband, preferably housebroken, preferably as silly as her. When she’s not corraling her household, she’s talking to the characters in her head and hoping they talk back. When she’s not doing all that, she can be found wandering around Central Market with a happy, drooly foodie look on her face. Do not judge her, it is her Mecca.

Mary’s been writing since she was a teenager though spent quite a few years studying toward becoming a doctor before she realized she wanted to be a full-time author. Unfortunately, the people who own her student loans still want to be paid for the years they supported her medical dreams. Mary lives on a steady diet of coffee and chocolate and believes, like Eleanor Roosevelt, that people should believe in the beauty of their dreams. She also believes people should ignore the word should because really, it’s kind of a judgmental word. Mary dreams of one day living as a full-time, well paid novelist (hint, hint) and also of one day traveling to Chile to pay homage to her soul mate, Pablo Neruda.