Please join me in welcoming thriller author PM Kavanaugh to the blog. PM will be awarding a 1st prize of a $20 Amazon gift card and a 2nd prize of a $15 Amazon gift card to randomly drawn commenters during her blog tour. Leave your comments here, then check out other stops on the tour and leave your comments there.
A writer of thrillers spiked with romance, PM Kavanaugh has always loved intrigue, danger and adventure, especially when observed at a safe distance from her own life. She shares her home, dreams and some of her plotting dilemmas with her clever-enough-to-be-a-spy husband and her talkative office cat, Max.
Cover Blurb From Die Run Hide
By PM Kavanaugh
Follow orders or die. Anika Washington knows the rules laid down by the counterterrorist agency that owns her. When she aborts a mission in order to spare a young girl, she’s given an ultimatum: take on a new mission that requires betraying her fellow operative, and lover, or forfeit her own life.
After discovering that her lover, Gianni, has chosen another, Anika accepts the mission. In the aftermath, she learns that Gianni was faithful to her and she’d been tricked into thinking otherwise. The knowledge comes too late and she’s almost killed in an agency double-cross.
Now she must run—battling time, former enemies and the agency itself to stay alive and save the man she loves.
An Excerpt From Die Run Hide
“Why?”
The single word jabbed Anika like a fist when she stepped inside her loft. She didn’t know Gianni had returned. It had been five miserable weeks since he had left for what she thought was the honeymoon mission with Jewel. The one she now knew had been cancelled.
“How long have you been back?” She dropped her gear on the low table in the middle of her living room.
“Long enough to learn you missed the target. What happened?” The vein in Gianni’s lower jaw pulsed an angry beat.
What she had to tell him wouldn’t improve his mood. As her vision adjusted to the indoor light, she noted fatigue lines around his mouth and a hollowing underneath his eyes.
“I’ve already explained what happened to the debriefing team. It’s all on disc.” She walked into the kitchen where she grabbed a tube of herb water out of the cold cell and took several swallows.
Stop stalling and tell him.
He Gianni loomed in the doorway. “What about your promise? The one about you lying low?”
“I thought I had the target.” She finished off the tube and tossed it into the recycler. “I missed. That’s all.”
“You don’t miss.” His words lashed across the room.
“The P-16 isn’t as precise as laser.” Do it now. Before you lose your nerve.
Umm…I’m not sure if my last comment went through. What I said was that PM had me at thrillers spiked w/ romance & it got better from there. Have a great tour!
It did get through. The first comment here always has to be approved. After that comments go through without approval.
You had me at thrillers spiked with romance – but it just got better from there. Have fun on the tour, PM!
Sounds intense and intriguing!
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Wasn’t sure about this one until I read that excerpt. Now I have to go add it to my ever growing wishlist!
Hi Ilona, And may your wishes all come true! Ha. Thanks for stopping by and getting intrigued enough to check it out. Let me know what you think!
I have a question for you PM…
I am intrigued by the title…DIE RUN HIDE
Generally we think of it in terms of run…hide…so you don’t die. Can you shed any light on the title…is there a hidden meaning…why the order DIE RUN HIDE?
Hi Laurie,
Thanks for asking! The “die” refers to Anika’s faked death towards the beginning of the novel which helps set her free from the agency….or so she thinks! When things don’t work out as hoped/planned (make your heroine suffer, right?), she has to go on the run and hide from the agency and other enemies. Hence, Die Run Hide.
Sounds like a great read.
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Hi Rita, Thank you and thanks for stopping by!
Ooh, I really want to read the scene where Gianni finds out about the misunderstanding! Love the name choice for Gianni too!
Hi Krista, That scene was so tough for me to write because I actually hate writing “argument” scenes. Much prefer to write fight and love scenes:) But it had to be done. You can find it in Chapter 29!! Thanks for stopping by.
Thanks for hosting today!
Thanks for arranging the tour, Goddess Fish!
DIE RUN HIDE does look thrilling & I love the excerpt thank you.
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DIE RUN HIDE does indeed look thrilling. I had a hard time choosing an excerpt to run with the post. I received three potential excerpts as part of the tour package for PM’s stop. It was hard to choose because they were all GOOD!
Hi Laurie,
Thanks so much for hosting me today. I like the excerpt you selected, in part because it’s different from the other 2 posted on previous stops. So, blog hoppers will get more of an opportunity to read different snippets from the book.
Hi Mary, Thanks for stopping by and “loving” the excerpt. This scene is one of my favorites in the whole book–lots of tension and suppressed emotion.