Today I have my spotlight on PROMISES TO KEEP
By Claire Yezbak Fadden
About the Book
Love, Secrets, and Lies…
Kate
Jameson married the man of her dreams. Her real-life hero. A man who wouldn’t
abandon her the way her father had—or so she
thought. Weeks after their son’s birth, her husband is suddenly pulled away for
a business trip that takes him out of the country. But something isn’t right.
His truths aren’t adding up. Kate digs into his past, determined to learn what
he’s hiding. But unraveling this endless mystery draws her into a maze of lies,
family secrets and deadly consequences.
For twenty years, undercover CIA agent Eric Wiley lived for one
reason—to avenge his parents’ brutal deaths. Until he marries Kate. Eric
promises her a life of love and commitment, but competing promises constantly
collide, offering him little chance of keeping either. When an informant lures
him to Mexico, Eric thinks his goal of apprehending an elusive killer will be
realized. Leaving his family for a few short days, weeks at the most, would be
worth the prize.
Can this final mission bring closure and allow Eric to be the
husband Kate deserves and the father he yearns to be? Or will their destiny
remain mired in the secrets of his past, leaving them powerless to embrace
their present?
ERIC excerpt
He walked to
where she stood and kissed her cheek before embracing his wife and son in a
group hug. “I feel damn lucky this emergency didn’t come up sooner.”
He brushed her
arm, noting the goosebumps prickling against his palm.
“If that call
had come before Benjamin’s birth, would you have left and missed seeing your
son be born?” she asked.
How could he
answer without adding more lies to the growing mountain of falsehoods he’d
already fabricated? As far as she knew, he was committed to his profession as
an importer for his parents’ chain of discount stores. The success of his
mission—and possibly his safety—depended on her believing that version.
“Of course not.”
Eric told her what she wanted to hear.
Smoke screens
and twisting reality to suit his immediate goal had served him well, not just
in his professional life, but in his married life, too. Sadly, he’d become
pretty good at spinning the truth to where his story held little or no facts.
KATE excerpt
Kate
smiled at the way Eric’s eyebrows arched in his hopeless attempts to get
Benjamin’s attention. For the past twenty minutes, she held their son in an
awkward posture in front of her desktop computer camera, coaxing a somewhat
sleeping baby to greet his father. Up until a few seconds ago, their son
displayed little interest. She knew the squirming had more to do with hunger
than his eagerness to interact with his dad.
Kate
had waited all day for Eric to call. She needed to see his face, stubbled with
a five-o’clock shadow, even if it was through her computer screen. She shifted
Benjamin to her other arm. This must be
how military families with one parent deployed feel.
This
wasn’t the marriage she signed up for. Twenty minutes over a video call
couldn’t substitute for his presence. It could be exhaustion or not getting
regular sleep, but she wondered if the man she married was more like her father
in ways she hadn’t anticipated. Eric wasn’t an alcoholic, a wifebeater or a
deadbeat. But neither was Monica’s husband, Brad. Kate had witnessed how her
brother-in-law’s sins nearly ripped the soul of their family apart.
There were
all sorts of ways to abandon your wife and desert your family. Just because she
was most familiar with the ones her father implemented, didn’t mean that she
and her sisters wouldn’t suffer from other approaches. Separated by hundreds of
miles without knowing when he would return qualified as desertion of a type. At
least in Kate’s mind.
About the Author
When she’s not playing with her
granddaughters, Pennsylvania native Claire Yezbak Fadden is writing
contemporary women’s fiction. Her books feature strong women who overcome
life’s challenges, always putting their families first.
There's a special spot in Claire's
heart for carousel horses – quite possibly the result of watching “Mary
Poppins” 13 times as a young girl. She loves butterflies, ladybugs and
confetti! Just ask anyone who's received a birthday card from her.
The mother of three lives in Orange
County, California with her husband, Nick and three spoiled dogs.
Claire’s work as an award-winning
journalist, humor columnist and editor has appeared in more than 100
publications across the United States, Canada and Australia. Promises To Keep is the second novel in
her Begin Again series.
Follow
Claire @claireflaire,
Author of the Begin Again series
Promises
To Keep
A Corner of Her Heart
Maybe This Time
Coming Soon: Ribbon of Light
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sister, a wife, a friend, a woman.
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