Forever Mine
Amber
Reed Mystery Book Three
By
Zanna Mackenzie
Tagline:
“Romantic comedy meets celebrity cozy mystery”
Book Blurb:
When
celebrities need a crime solving quickly and discreetly they call in the
experts – the CCIA, otherwise known as the Celebrity Crimes Investigation
Agency…
Stalkers,
shootings and sexy special agents.
All
part of being famous, right?
Well,
they are for Oscar-winning actress Amelia Kingston when she starts getting
deeply disturbing and threatening notes left by a stalker – in her bedroom!
When
her boyfriend Ty is shot she calls in the CCIA. The agency sends its newest
recruit Amber and her sexy special agent partner Charlie undercover to Amelia’s
luxury mountain chalet to track down the person terrorising her.
But
circumstances force the agency to pull Charlie off the case, meaning Amber has
a new crime fighting partner to try and catch the stalker with – and he’s
trouble with a capital T! He throws
Amber’s life into chaos, making her question herself and her abilities as well
as her relationship with Charlie.
When
events in Los Angeles involving Charlie are splashed across newspapers around
the globe Amber’s world comes crashing down.
But
before she can even attempt to sort herself out she has to team up with her rogue
co-worker and solve this case. Can the two of them manage to pull together and stop
the stalker before anyone else gets shot?
Check
out this new cozy mystery series with oodles of fun, romance and smart, sassy
special agents from the CCIA.
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Extract:
“Who’d want to be famous?”
Charlie and I
are hovering in the airport’s baggage reclaim area, hoping our luggage has
managed to find its way to France too.
“Before I got
this job I thought being a star was all glamourous living, oodles of money in
the bank and being worshipped by all your adoring fans.”
The baggage
carousel emits several loud clunks closely followed by a high pitched
screeching noise before slowly starting up.
“But now,” I continue, lowering my voice, “I
know being famous makes you a target for all the stalkers, murderers and
crazies out there. One minute Amelia Kingston is receiving her Oscar for best
actress in the blockbuster movie Forever Mine. The next she’s well, you know....”
Beside me
Charlie nods and grabs his battered holdall from the baggage carousel. Then we
have to wait for what seems like an eternity before my bright purple suitcase
puts in an appearance too.
“Still not got
the hang of this travelling light business have you?” he says hauling my own
case from the conveyor belt.
“We’re staying
in a luxury mountain chalet in the French Alps. Who knows what outfits I might
need? I can’t pack light for this,” I retort whilst feeling a tad guilty about
just how much I have crammed into my case. I had to sit on it to force the lid
closed.
He shakes his
head. “We’re working, Amber.”
“Yes, but
we’re working undercover and the other guests will be glam celebrities wearing
designer outfits so I’ll need to have some half-decent clothes with me. I can’t
just turn up for dinner every night in jeans and a sweater.”
“Why not? I
am,” he replies as we head for the exit, Charlie tugging my suitcase behind
him.
Outside the
wind is bitingly cold and almost blows me off my feet as we exit the airport
terminal and head for the car hire offices. We left behind a warm spring day in
the UK but here it feels more like February than May. I pull on a jacket.
See, that’s
another reason why I needed to pack quite so much. The weather in the mountains
is notoriously fickle. A girl needs to be prepared for sun, snow and rain where
we’re going.
This is my
second case as a support officer for the Celebrity Crimes Investigation Agency
(otherwise known as the CCIA) and I’m still nervous about the whole
catch-a-killer side of my work. OK, it’s mainly for the fully trained CCIA
agents to do that side of the job whilst I provide, as my job title suggests,
support on the case.
I do have a
tendency to get a little bit carried away sometimes though and find myself in,
shall we say, tricky circumstances. Like on my first case when I ended up in a cave
on a deserted beach with a murderer who had a knife at my throat.
Anyway,
technically, it’s the agents who are the guys with the special ‘clearance’ to
do all sorts of things (sometimes against the law) to solve a case and get
murderers put behind bars. Charlie even carries a gun. Which, to be honest,
freaks me out just a little.
Author Bio:
Zanna
Mackenzie lives on the Derbyshire/Leicestershire border in the UK with her
husband, 4 dogs, a vegetable patch that’s home to far too many weeds and an
ever expanding library of books waiting to be read.
Being
a freelance writer and editor of business publications is her ‘day job’ but, at
every opportunity, she can be found scribbling down notes on scenes for
whatever novel she’s working on. She loves it when the characters in her novels
take on minds of their own and start deviating from the original plot!
Find
out more about Zanna on her blog www.zannamackenzie.blogspot.co.uk, on Twitter
via @ZannaMacKenzie or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/zanna.mackenzie
Thanks Simona! Much appreciated.
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